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 the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

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

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:

My son, let not them depart from thy eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

He taught me also, and said to 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 right paths.

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

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more to the perfect day.

Let them not depart from thy eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.

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

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

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

Let them be only thy own, and not for strangers with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep 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.

For by means of a lewd woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

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.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment.

Whoever is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Whoever is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be extinguished.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; and a good report maketh the bones fat.

In the light of a 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 of it is from the LORD.

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.

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

Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.

For a lewd woman is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Rejoice not when thy enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Let another man praise thee, and not thy own mouth; a stranger, and not thy 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 doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to 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 own works praise her in the gates.