If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:

My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart:

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

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.

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

Let your eyes look directly forward, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.

Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her allure you with her eyelids.

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with love.

Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice:

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart: and a good report makes the bones healthy.

In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.

The lot is cast into the lap; but its every decision is of the LORD.

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

The lot causes contentions to cease, and decides between the mighty.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

The thoughts of the diligent lead only to plenty; but of everyone that is hasty, only to want.

Let not your heart envy sinners: but be in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to a pit; let no man help him.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.