To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;

To give craftiness to the simple, and to the youth, knowledge and meditation.

To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.

For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat

We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:

Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:

For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood:

How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

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

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

To attend to wisdom thou wilt incline thine ear, thy heart to understanding;

For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding

He treasured up deliverance for the upright: a shield to those going in uprightness:

To guard the paths of judgment, and he will watch the way of his godly ones.

For wisdom shall come into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul.

To deliver thee from the evil way, from the man speaking deceit;

Those forsaking the paths of straightness to go in the ways of darkness;

Those rejoicing to do evil will exult in the deceit of evil;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings;

For her house sunk down to death, and her tracks to the shades.

For length of days and years of life, and peace they shall add to thee.

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding.

It shall be healing to thy sinews, and moistening to thy bones.

She is a tree of life to all holding upon her: and happy he holding her fast

By his knowledge the depths were rent, and the clouds will drop dew.

And they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy throat

Thou shalt not withhold good from those possessing it in its being to the power of thy hand to do.

Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee.

Thou shalt not contend with man to no purpose, if he did thee no evil

But he will deride to those deriding: and he will give grace to the humble.

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

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.

She will give to thy head a garland of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver thee.

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

In the way of wisdom I taught thee; I caused thee to tread in the tracks of uprightness

For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

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

For they are life to those finding them, and healing to all their flesh.

Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

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

To watch meditation, and thy lips shall guard knowledge.

And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword.

Her feet go down to death; her steps will hold fast to hades.

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

Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel:

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

They shall be to thee alone, and not strangers with thee.

He shall die in not being instructed, and he shall wander in the multitude of his folly.

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

Thou shalt not give sleep to thine eyes, and slumber to thine eyelashes.

Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise:

Which no leader to her, scribe and ruler;

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down:

A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil,

Tie them always upon thy heart; bind them upon thy throat

In thy going about it shall lead thee; in thy lying down it shall watch over thee; and awaking, it shall speak to thee.

To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.

For by a woman a harlot, even to a round of bread: and a man's wife will hunt the precious soul.

So he going in to his neighbor's wife; all touching upon her shall not be innocent

They will not despise a thief if he shall steal to fill up his soul; for he will be hungry.

He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do it.

For jealousy is the wrath of man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

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

To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick darkness:

And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart

She laid hold upon him and kissed to him; she strengthened her face, and she will say to him,

For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee.

He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon.

With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish.

Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

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

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

Her house the ways to hades, going down to the chambers of death.

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

All of them straight to him understanding, and right to those finding knowledge.

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

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

In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth:

And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time

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.

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

Who the simple, he shall turn aside here: he wanting heart, she said to him,

He instructing him mocking received to himself dishonor: and he reproving to the unjust one, his blemish.

Thou shalt not reprove him mocking, lest he shall hate thee: reprove to the wise one and he will love thee.

Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving.

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

To call to those passing the way, making straight their paths:

Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him,

Jehovah will not cause the soul of the just one to hunger: and he will thrust away the desire of the unjust

The labors of the just one, to life: the increase of the unjust to sin.

The path to life is watching instruction: and he forsaking reproof goes astray.

The lips of the just one shall feed many: and fools in wanting heart, shall die.