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.

The wise will hear and increase their learning,
And the person of understanding will acquire wise counsel and the skill [to steer his course wisely and lead others to the truth],

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 like the hell, let us devour them quick 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!

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

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.

And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD,

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

that thou wilt incline thin ears unto wisdom; apply thine heart then to understanding.

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

He preserveth the welfare of the righteous, and defendeth them that walk innocently;

He guards the paths of justice;
And He preserves the way of His saints (believers).

That thou mayest be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things;

That thou mayest be delivered also from the strange woman, and from her that is not thine own: which giveth sweet words,

That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;

All they that go in unto her, come not again, neither take they hold of the way of life.

That thou mayest 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,

Well is him that findeth wisdom, and obtaineth 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 blessed are they that keep her fast.

Do not be afraid of sudden disaster, or the devastation that comes to the wicked.

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.

Hear, O sons, the instruction of a father,
And give attention that you may gain understanding,

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

The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding.

Hear, my son, and receive my words, that the years of thy life may 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 righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

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

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs 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 observe discretion
And your lips may reserve knowledge.

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

She regardeth not the path of life, so unsteadfast are her ways, that thou canst not know them.

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

That other men be not filled with thy goods, and that thy labours come not in a strange house.

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

Wherefore was not I obedient unto the voice of my teachers, and hearken not unto them that informed 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 poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed 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 [the crushing weight of] his disaster will come suddenly upon him;
Instantly he will be broken, and there will be no healing or remedy [because he has no heart for God].

Here are six things that the LORD hates seven, in fact, are detestable to him:

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,

A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that run rapidly to evil,

a false witness that bringeth up lies, and such one as soweth 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

that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot:

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

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

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

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth 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 an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face, and so I have found thee.

suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -

Until an arrow pierces through his liver;
As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that it will cost him 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 such as will understand, and right to them that find knowledge.

For wisdom is more worth than precious stones; yea, all the things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared unto 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 am loving unto those that love me, and they that seek me early, shall find me.

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

To endow those who love me with wealth,
That I may 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 set for the sea its boundary
So that the water would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

"Therefore hearken unto me, O ye 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 heareth me, watching daily at my gates, and giving attendance at the posts of my doors.

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

But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

"Come! Eat my food, and drink the wine that I have mixed.

Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."

Whoso reproveth a scornful person, getteth himself dishonour: and he that rebuketh the ungodly, staineth himself.

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