My son, walk not thou in the way with them. Restrain thy foot from their path.

to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

For LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken.

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

Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth.

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

Avoid it. Do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.

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

Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,

when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong,

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

The law of a wise man is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.

The fear of LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD.

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.

To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but victory is from LORD.

Thorns [and] snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

lest LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and the destruction from them both, who knows it?

These also are from the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there comes forth a vessel for the refiner.

Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

[As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.

Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice [is] from LORD.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and turns not away from any,

She is like the merchant ships: she brings her bread from afar.