אֵמֶר

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.