To keep you from the immoral woman;
From the seductress with her flattering words,

For, a son, became I to my father, tender and most precious in the sight of my mother.

“Prize wisdom [and exalt her], and she will exalt you;
She will honor you if you embrace her.

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear:

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

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,
and corrective discipline is the way to life.

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him.

So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

On the way to life, is he that heedeth correction, but, he that hateth reproof, is going astray.

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

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.

A man of great anger will bear the penalty [for his quick temper and lack of self-control];
For if you rescue him [and do not let him learn from the consequences of his action], you will only have to rescue him over and over again.

The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

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

Every man thinketh his own way to be right; but the LORD judgeth the hearts.

It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you?

To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?

Rescue those who are being taken away to death,
And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]!

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

Do not rush out to argue your case [before magistrates or judges];
Otherwise what will you do in the end [when your case is lost and]
When your neighbor (opponent) humiliates you?

lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you, and prove you to be a liar.

What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!