My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;

for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.

we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder;

cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse.

My son, do not walk in the way with them! Keep back your foot from their path,

So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

I also will laugh at your trouble; I will mock when your fear comes;

when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.

so that you attend to wisdom, you shall extend your heart to understanding;

yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice for understanding;

When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasing to your soul;

whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths.

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

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; tie them around your neck; write them upon the tablet of your heart;

Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

Healing shall be to your navel and marrow to your bones.

Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase;

and your barns shall be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst with new wine.

she is more precious than rubies; and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

By His knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

My son, do not let them depart from your eyes; keep sound wisdom and judgment,

and they shall be life to your soul and grace to your neck;

then you shall walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.

When you lie down, you shall not be afraid; yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

For Jehovah shall be your hope, and shall keep your foot from being taken.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Do not say to your neighbor, Go and come back again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it beside you:

Do not plan evil against your neighbor, since he dwells trustingly by you.

He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.

Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

She shall give to your hand an ornament of grace; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.

When you go, your steps shall not be narrowed, and when you run, you shall not stumble.

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

My son, listen to my words; bow down your ear to my sayings.

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

For they are life to those who find them, and health to all his flesh.

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

Ponder the path of your feet, and all your ways will be established.

Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

My son, listen to my wisdom; bow your ear to my understanding;

in order to keep discretion, that your lips may keep knowledge.

lest you should meditate on the path of life, her tracks are movable; you cannot know them.

Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel;

that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away,

Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

Should your overflowing spring be scattered abroad as rivers of waters in the streets.

Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He watches all his paths.

My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you struck your palms with a stranger,

you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

My son, do this now, and deliver yourself when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself and make your friend sure.

Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

who, having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man.

These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:

My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

bind them upon your heart forever, tie them around your neck.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life;

Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids.

Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.

Bind them upon your fingers; write them upon the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinsman,

so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses.

He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not go astray in her paths.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; nothing twisted or perverse is in them.

They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

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

Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I am understanding; I have strength.

Riches and honor are with me; enduring riches and righteousness.

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no springs heavy with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth.

before He had made the earth, or the fields or the highest part of the dust of the world.

And now listen to me, O sons; for blessed are those who keep my ways.

For by Me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

to call those who pass by, who are going straight on their ways;

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

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

Blessings are on the head of the just; but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked are destroyed, there is singing.

Where there is no wisdom, the people fall; but in the multitude of wise men there is safety.

They who are of a perverse heart are hateful to Jehovah, but the upright in the way are His delight.

The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

The wicked are overthrown, and are gone; but the house of the righteous shall stand.

A righteous one understands the soul of his animal; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Lying lips are hateful to Jehovah, but those who deal truly are His delight.