My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

That thou mayest be delivered also from the strange woman, and from her that is not thine own: which giveth sweet words,

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Surely {the Lord is opposed to the arrogant (LXX/NT)}, but he gives grace to the lowly.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

When I was a son to my father, not yet strong and an only son to my mother,

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

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

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

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

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

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

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

That thou give not thine honour unto another, and thy years to the cruel;

That other men be not filled with thy goods, and that thy labours come not in a strange house.

Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods,

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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 only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

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

You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

and your poverty will come like a robber,
your need, like a bandit.

Therefore shall his destruction come hastily upon him: suddenly shall he be all broken, and not healed.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

She caught the young man, kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying,

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month."

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

Standeth she not in the high places in the streets and ways?

Doth she not cry before the whole city, and in the gates where men go out and in?

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.

He who learns from instruction and correction is on the [right] path of life [and for others his example is a path toward wisdom and blessing],
But he who ignores and refuses correction goes off course [and for others his example is a path toward sin and ruin].

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

The blessing of Yahweh makes [one] rich, and he does not increase sorrow with it.

As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.

Fearing the LORD prolongs life, but the wicked will not live long.

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.