If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on 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, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

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

Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

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

Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from 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 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 for yourself only, not for other men with you.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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

For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

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 take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

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

Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, 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.

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.

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

The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

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

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

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

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

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

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.

Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

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:

For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

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.

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

He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.

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

Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

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

The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.

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 have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

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.

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.