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

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

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

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

for the LORD will be your confidence, and will 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.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Do not forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

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

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

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

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

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

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove your way far from her. Do not come near the door of her house,

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the foreign woman.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from the LORD.

She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

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

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

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

A good man shall obtain favor from the LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

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

The 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 the LORD.

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

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

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

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

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

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

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

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

A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

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

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

If you do not have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Do not withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

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

for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both?who knows?

Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner;

Take away the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Like cold water 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 home.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

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

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice comes from the 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 that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

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

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