My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commands with thee;

Meditation shall watch over thee, understanding shall guard thee:

To deliver thee from the evil way, from the man speaking deceit;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings;

For length of days and years of life, and peace they shall add to thee.

Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

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 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 will give to thy head a garland of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver thee.

Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of life shall be multiplied to thee.

In the way of wisdom I taught thee; I caused thee to tread in the tracks of uprightness

Turn away from thee perverseness of mouth, and frowardness of lips remove far oft from thee.

Thine eyes shall look straight before, and thine eyelashes shall be right before thee.

They shall be to thee alone, and not strangers with thee.

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.

In thy going about it shall lead thee; in thy lying down it shall watch over thee; and awaking, it shall speak to thee.

To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.

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

My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.

For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee.

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

For in me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

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

For thy trust to be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, thee also.

Did I not write to thee three days ago in counsels and knowledge?

To cause thee to know the truth of the words of truth; to turn back the words of truth to those sending thee?

If not to thee to requite, why shall he take thy bed from under thee?

If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee.

Like him estimating evil in his soul, so is he: Eat and drink, he will say to thee; and his heart not with thee.

For he redeeming them, he is strong; he will contend their contention with thee.

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

Thy father shall rejoice, and thy mother, and she begetting thee shall exult.

For by guidance thou shalt make to thee war, and in the multitude of counselors salvation.

Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field afterwards; and build thy house.

For good to say to thee, Come up hither, rather than humbling thyself before the noble whom thine eye saw.

Thou shalt not go forth hastily to strive, lest what thou shalt do in its latter state in thy neighbor putting thee to shame.

Lest he hearing shall reproach thee, and thine infamy shall not turn away.

Make rare thy foot from thy neighbor's house, lest he shall be satiated with thee, and hate thee.

For thou tookest up coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will recompense to thee.

A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.

Correct thy son and he shall cause thee to rest, and he shall give delight to thy soul.

Thou shalt not add to his words lest he reprove in thee, and thou wert false.

Two things I asked from thee, thou wilt not withhold from me before I shall die:

Thou shalt not slander the servant to his lord lest he shall curse thee, and thou wert guilty.