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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. (For more information, see the article BOOK OF PROVERBS in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)

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