If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,

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

And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

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

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

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Make the path of thy feet level, and let all thy ways be established.

Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.

Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.

He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

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

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

Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.

A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.

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

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