my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.

To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;

from those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;

but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.

Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:

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

for Jehovah shall be thy confidence, and he will keep thy foot from being taken.

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

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

avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.

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

Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.

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

And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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

deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;

I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.

The teaching of the wise man is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; but it is abomination to the foolish to depart from evil.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, in whom thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.

A wise man feareth and departeth from evil; but the foolish is overbearing and confident.

The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Jehovah is far from the wicked; but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

The purposes of the heart are of man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

By loving-kindness and truth iniquity is atoned for; and by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that taketh heed to his way keepeth his soul.

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Whoso hath found a wife hath found a good thing, and hath obtained favour from Jehovah.

Wealth addeth many friends; but the poor is separated from his friend.

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.

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

The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:

thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.

lest Jehovah see it, and it be evil in his sight, and he turn away his anger from him.

These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh 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 wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown endure from generation to generation?

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.

Many seek the ruler's face; but a man's right judgment is from Jehovah.

Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:

there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;

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

She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;