So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

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

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

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

So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.

To make you see how certain are true words, so that you may give a true answer to those who put questions to you?

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

In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.