My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,

discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee,

to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

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

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,

Do not say to thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give, when thou have it by thee.

Do not devise evil against thy neighbor, since he dwells securely by thee.

Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done thee no harm.

Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee.

Exalt her, and she will promote thee. She will bring thee to honor when thou embrace her.

She will give to thy head a garland of grace, a crown of beauty she will deliver to thee.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom. I have led thee in paths of uprightness.

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.

a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

When thou walk, it shall lead thee. When thou sleep, it shall watch over thee. And when thou awake, it shall talk with thee.

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.

That thy trust may be in LORD, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.

Have I not written to thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge,

to make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou may carry back words of truth to those who send thee?

If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Prepare thy work outside, and make it ready for thee in the field, and afterwards build thy house.

For it is better that it be said to thee, Come up here, than that thou should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen.

Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?

lest he who hears it revile thee, and thine infamy turn not away.

Have thou found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

For thou will heap coals of fire upon his head, and LORD will reward thee.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Two things I have asked of thee, deny me not before I die:

lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.

Slander not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.