Proverbs

This Book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdom and virtue. And these sentences are also called PARABLES, because great truths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes.

1 Chapter 1 The use and end of the proverbs. An exhortation to flee the company of the wicked: and to hearken to the voice of wisdom.
2 Chapter 2 The advantages of wisdom: and the evils from which it delivers.
3 Chapter 3 An exhortation to the practice of virtue.
4 Chapter 4 A further exhortation to seek after wisdom.
5 Chapter 5 An exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the occasions of it.
6 Chapter 6 Documents on several heads.
7 Chapter 7 The love of wisdom is the best preservative from being led astray by temptation.
8 Chapter 8 The preaching of wisdom. Her excellence.
9 Chapter 9 Wisdom invites all to her feast. Folly calls another way.
10 Chapter 10 In the twenty following chapters are contained many wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.
11 Chapter 11
12 Chapter 12
13 Chapter 13
14 Chapter 14
15 Chapter 15
16 Chapter 16
17 Chapter 17
18 Chapter 18
19 Chapter 19
20 Chapter 20
21 Chapter 21
22 Chapter 22
23 Chapter 23
24 Chapter 24
25 Chapter 25
26 Chapter 26
27 Chapter 27
28 Chapter 28
29 Chapter 29
30 Chapter 30 The wise man thinketh humbly of himself. His prayer and sentiments upon certain virtues and vices.
31 Chapter 31 An exhortation to chastity, temperance, and works of mercy; with the praise of a wise woman.