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.

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

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.

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

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.

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,

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

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

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.

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.