If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;

Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;

Thy lot, shalt thou cast into our midst, One purse, shall there be, for us all.

My son, mine instruction, do not thou forget, and, my commandment, let thy heart observe;

Lovingkindness and faithfulness, let them not forsake thee, - bind them, upon thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes, guard thou counsel, and purpose:

So he taught me, and said to me - Let thy heart, lay hold of my words, Keep my commandments and live!

Take fast hold of correction, let her not go, - keep her, for, she, is thy life.

But, the path of the righteous, is as the light of dawn, - going on and brightening, unto meridian day.

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

Let, thine eyes, right onward, look, - and, thine eyelashes, point straight before thee.

Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:

Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.

Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: -

A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.

For, a lamp, is the commandment, and, the instruction, a light, and, the way of life, are the reproofs of correction:

Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes;

Come! let us take our fill of endearments, until morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses;

Let not thy heart, turn aside to her ways, Do not go astray, in her paths.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither, as for him that lacketh sense, she saith to him -

Whoso is simple, let him turn aside hither, and, as for him that lacketh sense, she saith to him:

The light of the righteous, rejoiceth, but, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out.

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

In the light of a king's countenance, is life, and, his good-pleasure, is like the cloud of harvest-rain.

Into the lap, is cast the lot, but, from Yahweh, is its every decision.

Let a bereaved bear encounter man, rather than a dullard, with his folly!

The lot causeth, contentions, to cease, and, the mighty, it parteth.

Correct thy son, because there is hope, yet, not so as to slay him, let thy passion be excited.

A man in a rage, taketh away the penalty, - nevertheless, if thou let him go free, the more stripes must thou add.

The reverence of Yahweh, leadeth to life, satisfied then, let a man remain - let him not be visited by calamity.

Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.

Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long;

Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.

Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways;

Deliver thou such as are being led forth to death, and, them who are tottering to slaughter, oh that thou wouldst hold back!

When thine enemy falleth, do not thou rejoice, and, when he stumbleth, let not thy heart exult:

Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.

He that blesseth his friend, with a loud voice, in the morning early, a reproach, shall it be reckoned to him.

Let, iron, by iron, become sharp, and let, a man, sharpen the face of his friend.

A man oppressed with a person's blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.

All his anger, doth a dullard let go, but, a wise man, by keeping it back, stilleth it.

Where there is no vision, a people is let loose, but, he that keepeth instruction, how happy is he!

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and, his wearying toil, let him remember no more.

Give her of the fruit of her own hands, and let her own works, praise her in the gates.