My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.

Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending;

And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs:

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me;

They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs.

And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commands with thee;

My son, thou shalt not forget my law, and thy heart shall guard my commands:

My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs:

My son, they shall not depart from thine eyes: keep counsel and meditation:

For I gave to you good instruction; ye shall not forsake my law.

For I was son to my father; tender and only before the face of my mother.

And he taught me, and he will say to me, Thy heart shall hold fast my words: watch my commands and live.

Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth.

Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of life shall be multiplied to thee.

My son, attend to my word; incline thine ear to my sayings.

My son, attend to my wisdom; incline thine ear to understanding:

And now, ye sons, hear to me, and ye shall not depart from the words of my mouth.

And thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs

And I heard not to the voice of him teaching me, and I inclined not mine ear to him instructing me.

And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if thou becamest surety for thy friend, thou didst strike thy hands for a stranger;

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself when thou camest into the hand of thy friend; go humble thyself and enlarge thy friend.

My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:

My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.

Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes.

Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding:

For in the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice,

Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows.

With adornings I spread my bed, variegated with thread of Egypt

I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

And now, ye sons, hear to me, and attend to the sayings of my mouth.

To you, ye men, I shall call, and my voice is to the sons of man.

Hear ye, for I will speak dear things; and the openings of my lips uprightnesses.

For my palate shall meditate the truth, and evil is the abomination of my lips.

In justice are all the sayings of my mouth; nothing in them crooked and perverse.

Receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge above tried gold.

To me counsel and wisdom: I am understanding; to me is strength.

By me kings shall reign, and princes shall decree justice.

By me chiefs shall have dominion, and nobles all judging the earth.

I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me.

Riches and honor are with me; splendid riches and justice.

My fruit is good above gold, and above pure gold; and my gain above tried silver.

To cause those loving me to inherit existence: and I will fill their treasures.

Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.

Smiling in the habitable globe of his earth; and my delight with the sons of man.

And now ye sons, hear to me: and the happy shall watch my ways.

Happy the man hearing to me, to watch at my doors day, day; to watch the door posts of my entrances.

For he finding me, the finding of life, and he shall bnng forth acceptance from Jehovah.

And he sinning against me did violence to his soul: all hating me loved death.

Come ye, eat of my bread, and drink ye of the wine I mingled.

For in me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

Cease, my son, to hear instructions for erring from the words of knowledge.

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

Incline thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and thou shalt set thy heart to my knowledge.

My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

And my reins shall exult in the speaking of thy lips uprightnesses.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart right in the way.

My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way.

They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; and the dropping of honey being sweet to thy palate.

My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king: thou shalt not intermingle with those changing:

Thou shalt not say, According to what he did to me, thus will I do to him: I will turn back to the man according to his work.

And I shall see and set my heart: I looked, I took instruction.

My son, be wise and gladden my heart, and I will turn back word to him reproaching me.

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

Two things I asked from thee, thou wilt not withhold from me before I shall die:

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

They three were wonderful above me; and four, I knew them not:

What, my son? and what the son of my womb? and what the son of my vows?