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

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:

My son, forget not 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 unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.

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

But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

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 level the path of thy feet, 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.

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

When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

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 thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

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

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

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; And good tidings make the bones fat.

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 the whole disposing thereof is of Jehovah.

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

The lot causeth contentions to cease, And parteth between the mighty.

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

Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, 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.

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

A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay 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 works praise her in the gates.