My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.

My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:

My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths,

My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

So that thou shalt go in the way of the good, and thou shalt watch the paths of the just

My child, do not forget my instruction, and may your heart guard my commands.

So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding.

Thou shalt not be wise in thine eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof

My child, may they not escape from your {sight}; may you keep sound wisdom and prudence.

Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Thou shalt not be afraid from sudden terror, and from the destruction of the unjust when it shall come.

Refuse not to do good unto him that should have it, so long as thine hand is able to do it.

Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee.

Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon thy neighbor, and he dwelling confidently with thee.

Thou shalt not contend with man to no purpose, if he did thee no evil

Thou shalt not envy against a man of violence, and thou shalt choose in all his ways.

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

he taught me also, saying, "Let thine heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.

Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth.

Thou shalt not forsake her, and she will watch thee: love her, and she will guard thee.

Lift her up and she shall exalt thee: she will honor thee when thou. shalt embrace her.

She shall give to your hand an ornament of grace; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.

Listen, my child, take my sayings, and [the] years of your life shall be great.

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Lay hold upon instruction, thou shalt not let go: guard her for she is thy life.

In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.

Reject it, thou shalt not pass in it; turn aside from it and pass by.

My child, be attentive to my words; to my sayings incline your ear.

Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear;

Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not whither.

Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel:

So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;

And thou shalt say - How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;

Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.

The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.

Why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an immoral woman
And embrace the bosom of an outsider (pagan)?

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,

do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into {the palm of your neighbor's hand}: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.

Thou shalt not give sleep to thine eyes, and slumber to thine eyelashes.

So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.

He will not lift up the face of any ransom, and he will not be willing if thou shalt increase the reward.

My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.

Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.

Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding:

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Thou shalt not reprove him mocking, lest he shall hate thee: reprove to the wise one and he will love thee.

Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving.

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

He who gathers in the summer [is] a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest [is] a child who brings shame.

One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

A wise child [hears] the discipline of a father, but a scoffer does not listen to a rebuke.

Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him} discipline.

In the mouth of the foolish, is a haughty rod, but, as for the lips of the wise, thou shalt give heed to them!

Go into the presence of a foolish man, And thou shalt not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

The way of life leadeth unto heaven; that a man should beware of hell beneath.

A divine decision [given by God] is on the lips of the king [as His representative];
His mouth should not be unfaithful or unjust in judgment.

It is a great abomination when kings are wicked; for a king's seat should be holden up with righteousness.

A crown of adorning, is a hoary head, in the way of righteousness, it should be found.

A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and in the midst of brothers he will share his inheritance.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.

The stern in wrath lifted up a fine: for if thou shalt deliver and thou shalt yet add.

Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.

What is desirable in a man is his fidelity;
better to be a poor man than a liar.

The scoffer, thou shalt smite, and, the simple, will beware, but correct a man of intelligence - he will understand teaching.

He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, [is] a child who causes shame and brings reproach.

Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray} from sayings of knowledge.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Plans - by counsel, shalt thou establish, and, with concerted measures, make thou war.

A revealer of secrets, is one who goeth about talebearing, therefore, with him who openeth his lips, shalt thou not have fellowship.

Thou shalt not say, I will requite evil; wait for Jehovah, he will save to thee.

It is a snare to a man, that he should rashly cry Holy! and, after making vows, to reflect!

Lovingkindness and faithfulness, will guard a king, - therefore should he support, with lovingkindness, his throne.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Incline thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and thou shalt set thy heart to my knowledge.

For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.

Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Lest thou shalt learn his ways and take a snare to thy soul.

Thou shalt not be with those striking the hand with those pledging for debts.