Let the wise listen and increase their learning; let the person of understanding receive guidance

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

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

My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;

Do not let kindness and truth leave you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

My son, let them not vanish from your sight;
Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

Then he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
Keep my commandments and live;

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

Take hold of instruction; do not let go.
Guard her, for she is your life.

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

Do not let them depart from your sight;
Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

Let your eyes look directly ahead
And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

Let your way [in life] be far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation],

Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

Let them be yours alone
And not for strangers with you.

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

As a loving hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be exhilarated always with her love.

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber.

His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
Let us delight ourselves with caresses.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
Do not stray into her paths.

Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!”
To him who lacks understanding she says,

“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”
And to him who lacks understanding she says,

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs,
Rather than a fool in his folly.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

A wise man putteth off displeasure, and it is his honour to let some faults pass.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

For great wrath bringeth harm; therefore let him go, and so mayest thou teach him more nurture.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

The reverence of Yahweh, leadeth to life, satisfied then, let a man remain - let him not be visited by calamity.

Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

Spears and snares are in the way of the froward; but he that will keep his soul, let him flee from such.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But live in the fear of the Lord always.

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

Let not thy wrath and jealousy move thee, to follow the wicked and ungodly.

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

If your enemy [is] hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water.

Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

Let, iron, by iron, become sharp, and let, a man, sharpen the face of his friend.

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold [to separate the impurities of the metal],
And each is tested by the praise given to him [and his response to it, whether humble or proud].

Whoso increaseth his riches by vantage and winning, let him gather them to help the poor withal.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Where there is no vision, a people is let loose, but, he that keepeth instruction, how happy is he!

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

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

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

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