If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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

He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her 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 straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

A loving doe and a graceful deer -- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

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

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

Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

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

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

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

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!