When I was a son to my father, tender and alone before my mother,

May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you.

For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.

Beside gates, before towns, [at the] entrance of doors, she cries out:

"Yahweh possessed me, [the] first of his ways, before his acts {of old}.

Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.

I was {beside} him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him {always},

The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Sheol and Abaddon [are] before Yahweh, {how much more} the hearts of the children of men!

Fear of Yahweh [is] the instruction of the wise, and before honor [comes] humility.

Before destruction [comes] pride, and before a fall, a haughty spirit.

[Like] the release of water [is] the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.

A person who lacks {sense} {pledges}; he becomes security before his neighbor.

He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself [belongs] to him as well as shame.

The gift of a person will open doors for him, and before the great, it gives him access.

Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone [is] the friend of a man of gifts.

A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what [is] before you,

Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Do not promote yourself before the king, and in the place of the great ones do not stand.

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.

Cruel [is] wrath and overwhelming [is] anger, but who will stand before jealousy?

Two things I ask from you; do not deny me before I die: