if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and keep my commandments by thee,

then shall counsel preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee.

For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace.

Let mercy and faithfulness never go from thee: bind them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thine heart.

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

Say not unto thy neighbour, "Go thy way and come again, tomorrow will I give thee"

whereas thou hast now to give him. Intend no hurt unto thy neighbour, seeing he hopeth to dwell in rest by thee.

Strive not lightly with any man, wher as he hath done thee no harm.

Get thee wisdom, get thee understanding, forget not the words of my mouth, and shrink not from them.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour.

She shall make thee a gracious head, and garnish thee with the crown of glory."

I will show thee the way of wisdom, and lead thee in the right paths.

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

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and let the lips of slander be far from thee.

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

but let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts alway satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love.

so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

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

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

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

That she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words.

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

Reprove not a scorner, lest he owe thee evil will: but rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Or ever thou canst turn thee about, the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the house of the righteous shall stand.

My son, heareth no more the doctrine that leadeth thee away from the words of understanding.

Say not thou, "I will recompense evil"; but put thy trust in the LORD, and he shall defend thee.

Have not I warned thee very oft with counsel and learning?

That I might show thee the truth and that thou with the verity mightest answer them that lay anything against thee?

for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee.

When thou sittest at the table to eat with a lord, order thyself mannerly with the things that are set before thee.

for he doth as a man that pescribeth a measure in his heart. He sayeth unto thee, "Eat and drink," whereas his heart is not with thee.

For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.

Let not thine heart be jealous to follow sinners; but keep thee still in the fear of the LORD all the day long:

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

So shall thy father be glad, and thy mother that bare thee, shall rejoice.

Lest the LORD, when he seeth it, be angry and turn his wrath from him unto thee.

Let not thy wrath and jealousy move thee, to follow the wicked and ungodly.

so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

Better it is that it be said unto thee, "Come up hither," than thou to be set down in the presence of the prince whom thou seest with thine eyes.

Be not hasty to go to the law, lest thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbor hath confounded thee.

If thou findest honey, eat so much as is sufficient for thee; lest thou be overfull, and parbreak it out again.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, lest he be weary of thee, and so abhor thee.

For so shalt thou heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; yea, other folk's lips and not thine.

The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry.

Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.

Nurture thy son with correction, and he shall comfort thee; yea, he shall do the good at thine heart.

Put thou nothing therefore unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found as a liar.

Two things I require of thee, that thou will not deny me before I die.

Lest I be so full, I deny thee, and say, "What fellow is the LORD?" And lest I, being constrained through poverty, fall unto stealing and foreswear the name of my God.

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he speak evil of thee also, and thou be hurt.