To know [skillful and godly] wisdom and instruction;
To discern and comprehend the words of understanding and insight,

for acquiring the discipline that produces wise behavior, righteousness, justice, and upright living;

That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding.

He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:

and he that is endued with understanding shall obtain wit to perceive a parable, and the interpretation thereof; the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same.

for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck.

If they say, “Come with us;
Let us lie in wait to shed blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

my son, don’t travel that road with them
or set foot on their path,

Surely, in vain, is spread the net, in the sight of aught that hath wings!

So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.

Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it,

Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:

even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Whereas, he that hearkeneth unto me, shall dwell safely, and be at rest, without dread of misfortune.

So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

For it is the LORD that giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a shield to them that walk uprightly.

so that He may guard the paths of justice
and protect the way of His loyal followers.

To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments.

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

Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.

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

Wisdom is more worth than precious stones, and all the things that thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retains her.

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

For the LORD shall be beside thee, and keep thy foot that thou be not taken.

Refuse not to do good unto him that should have it, so long as thine hand is able to do it.

Devise not against thy neighbour an injury, seeing that, he, dwelleth securely by thee.

The wise shall have honour in possession, but shame is the promotion that fools shall have.

Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

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

Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

So that if thou goest therein, there shall no straitness hinder thee: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

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

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

That you may preserve discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.

For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;

Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, that you can not know them.

For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods,

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!

Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

Let thy wells flow out abroad, that there may be rivers of water in the streets:

For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord's eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person's paths.

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thy hands together yet a little, that thou mayest sleep:

So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.

A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him:

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,

A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

That they may lead thee where thou goest, preserve thee when thou art asleep, and that when thou awakest, thou mayest talk of them.

Because the command is a lamp and the Law a light, rebukes that discipline are a way of life

To keep thee from the wicked woman, from the flattery of the tongue of her that is a stranger.

that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

So is he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.

Men do not utterly despise a thief, that stealeth to satisfy his soul, when he is hungry:

But whosoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

That they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.

and I noticed among the naive that is, I discerned among the youths a senseless young man.

That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you!

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare

Till an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

Give ear, for I will speak of great matters, and open my lips to tell things that be right.

They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

With me is the fear of the LORD, and the eschewing of evil. As for pride, disdain, and evil way, and a mouth that speaketh wicked things, I utterly abhor them.

It is by me that kings reign
and rulers enact just law;

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

I walk on the way of righteousness, along paths that are just,

That I may cause those that love me to inherit wealth; and I will fill their treasuries.

Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;

The earth and all that is upon the earth was not yet made, no not the ground itself.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his command: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Now therefore hearken unto me, O you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

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

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."

He that reproves a scoffer gets for himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself injury.

The woman Stupidity, is boisterous, so simple that she knoweth not what she would do;