if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.

Let mercy and faithfulness never go from thee: bind them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thine heart.

My son, let not these things depart from thine eyes, but keep my law and my counsel:

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

Take fast hold of doctrine, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them even in the midst of thine heart.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and let the lips of slander be far from thee.

Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Let thy wells flow out abroad, that there may be rivers of water in the streets:

but let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts alway satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love.

let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber.

Come, let us lie together, and take our pleasure till it be daylight.

Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths.

"Whoso is ignorant, let him come hither!" And to the unwise she said,

"Who so is ignorant," sayeth she, "let him come hither." And to the unwise she sayeth,

The LORD will not let the soul of the righteous suffer hunger; but he putteth the ungodly from his desire.

A wise man putteth off displeasure, and it is his honour to let some faults pass.

Chasten thy son while there is hope; but let not thy soul be moved to slay him.

For great wrath bringeth harm; therefore let him go, and so mayest thou teach him more nurture.

Spears and snares are in the way of the froward; but he that will keep his soul, let him flee from such.

Let not thine heart be jealous to follow sinners; but keep thee still in the fear of the LORD all the day long:

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes have pleasure in my ways.

Rejoice not thou at the fall of thine enemy; and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.

Let not thy wrath and jealousy move thee, to follow the wicked and ungodly.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; yea, other folk's lips and not thine.

Whoso increaseth his riches by vantage and winning, let him gather them to help the poor withal.

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.