If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.