Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

Do not be wise in your own estimation; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops;

My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.

My child, do not let them escape from your sight; safeguard sound wisdom and discretion.

for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.

Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?

by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt.

From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

For the one who finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord.

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.

A good person obtains favor from the Lord, but the Lord condemns a person with wicked schemes.

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the faithless desire the fruit of violence.

Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.

A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools abhor turning away from evil.

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

A wise person is cautious and turns from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is overconfident.

The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.

The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

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

The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

The dice are thrown into the lap, but their every decision is from the Lord.

From the fruit of a person's mouth his stomach is satisfied, with the product of his lips is he satisfied.

The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.

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

A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.

Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

The one who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his life from troubles.

A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory is from the Lord.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.

Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:

When I saw this, I gave careful consideration to it; I received instruction from what I saw:

Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge;

remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Like cold water to a weary person, so is good news from a distant land.

Like legs that hang limp from the lame, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.

Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one's friend from sincere counsel.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.

When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

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

If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one receives justice.

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

Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,

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 like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

She is like the merchant ships; she brings her food from afar.

She considers a field and buys it; from her own income she plants a vineyard.