So that you will walk on the road of those who are good, and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.

Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,

For her income is better than the income of silver, and her revenue than [that of] gold.

She is more precious than rubies, and all your desires shall not compare with her.

Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or the storm of wickedness that will come.

The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! With all [that is in] your possession, gain insight.

For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,

until an arrow pierces his {entrails}, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that {it will cost him his life}.

Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold.

For wisdom is better than jewels, and all desires shall not compare with her.

My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.

{when he assigned} his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his {command}, {when he marked} the foundations of the earth,

But he does not know that the dead [are] there, in the depths of Sheol [are] her guests.

It is better to be lowly and a servant {to someone} than self-glorifying and lacking food.

As for a fool, {on that very day} he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult [is] prudent.

Hope that is deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled [is] a tree of life.

There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.

Better [is] little with the fear of Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it.

Better [is] a dinner of vegetables when love [is] there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.

Getting wisdom: {how much} better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen {over} silver.

Better a lowly spirit with the poor than dividing the spoil with the proud.

There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good.

He who is slow to anger [is] better than him who is mighty, and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city.

Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.

A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.

A brother who is offended [is worse] than a city of strength, and quarrels [are] like the bars of a fortification.

A man of [many] friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.

For a fool living in luxury is not fitting, [any] more [than it is] for a slave to rule over princes.

Listen [to] advice and accept instruction so that you will gain wisdom for your {future}.

The craving of a man [is] his steadfast loyalty, and [it is] better [to be] poor than a {liar}.

The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made {them both}.

Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than [to] share a house with a woman of contention.

Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.

A {reputation} [is] to be chosen {rather than} great riches; {favor is better than silver and gold}.

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

Better to live upon the corner of a roof than [with] a woman of contention and [in a] shared house.

[Like] legs that hang limp from a lame person, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.

[Like] a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.

[Do] you see a man wise in his own eyes? [There is more] hope for a fool than for him.

A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.

Grabbing onto the ears of a dog passing by [is] one who meddles in a quarrel [that is] not his own.

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.

An {appetite} that is sated spurns honey, but [to] an {appetite} that is ravenous, all bitterness [is] sweet.

Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

A man [who is] poor and oppresses the impoverished [is] a beating rain {that leaves} no food.

Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.

He who hurries for wealth is {a man with an evil eye}, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.

He who rebukes a person will afterward find [more] favor than he who flatters [with the] tongue.

You see a man who is hasty in his words: [there is more] hope for a fool than him.

Certainly I [am more] stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind [is] not for me.

[There is] a generation [that] will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless.

[There is] a generation [that is] pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

There [are] three [things] that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent [when] moving:

The words of Lemuel, [the] king--an oracle that his mother taught him:

A woman of excellence, who will find? For her worth [is] far more than precious jewels.

She perceives that her merchandise [is] good; her lamp does not go out in the night.