My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths,

They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes,

Whoever listens to me will dwell in security and rest securely from dread and disaster."

For Yahweh will give wisdom; from his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.

[in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Yahweh and retreat from evil.

Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,

My child, may they not escape from your {sight}; may you keep sound wisdom and prudence.

Yahweh will be {your confidence} and guard your foot from capture.

Do not withhold good from its owner when it is in the power of your hand to do.

Get wisdom and insight; do not forget and do not turn from the sayings of my mouth.

Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by.

May they not escape from your {sight}; keep them in [the] midst of your heart.

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

Remove from yourself {deceitful speech}, and abolish {devious talk} from yourself.

Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil.

Now, O children, listen to me; do not depart from the sayings of my mouth.

Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house,

Drink water from your [own] cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well.

Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?

[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.

[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.

From eternity, I was set up from [the] first, from the beginning of the earth.

{when he made} skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep,

For he who finds me [is] he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh.

Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.

The righteous is delivered from trouble, but the wicked enters into it.

The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns.

By the transgression of lips, evil is ensnared, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he is filled with good, and the reward of {a man's labor} will return to him.

From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing.

Wealth [gained] from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little} will increase it.

A desire {fulfilled} will be sweet to the soul, but an abomination of fools is turning from evil.

From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and {from his own}, [so shall] a good man.

The wise is cautious and turns from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is confident.

The fear of Yahweh [is] a fountain of life, [in order] to turn from the snares of death.

The path of life [leads] upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but the prayers of the righteous he will hear.

From the light of the eyes, the heart will rejoice, and good news will enliven the bones.

To mortals [belong] the plans of the heart, but from Yahweh [comes] the answer of the tongue.

By loyalty and faithfulness, iniquity will be covered over, and by fear of Yahweh {one turns} from evil.

The highway of the upright, it turns from evil, he who guards himself keeps his way.

The lot will be cast into the lap, but all of its decisions are from Yahweh.

[For] he who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.

From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach will be satisfied, as for the yield of his lips, it will satisfy.

He who finds a wife finds good, and he will obtain favor from Yahweh.

All the brothers of the poor, [if] they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues [them with] words, [and] they are gone.

A house and wealth [are] an inheritance [from] fathers, but from Yahweh [comes] a woman who is prudent.

Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray} from sayings of knowledge.

[It is] honorable for the man to refrain from strife, but every fool will be quick to quarrel.

Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

[Away] from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?

He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger.

Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them.

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

He [who] {is generous} will be blessed, for he gives to the poor from his [own] bread.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you?

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

As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol.

lest Yahweh see and [it] be evil in his eyes, and turn his anger away from him.

Remove the dross from silver, and it will become a vessel for the smith.

[Like] cold water upon a weary soul, [so too is] good news from a distant place.

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

Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.

If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with} the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.

He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer [is] an abomination.

He who pampers his servant from childhood, {arrogance will be his end}.

Many are those who seek the {favor} of a ruler, but from Yahweh {one obtains justice}.

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

Keep falsehood and a {lying word} far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me [with] food [only for] my need.

[There is] a generation [that is] pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

a mighty lion among the beasts, but he will not turn back from {any face};

She is like the ships of a merchant; from far off she brings her food;

She considers a field and buys it, from the fruit of {her hand} she plants a vineyard.

Give to her from the fruit of her hand, and may they praise her works in the city gates.