Thy lot, shalt thou cast into our midst, One purse, shall there be, for us all.

My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;

So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;

Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice;

If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,

Then, shalt thou understand the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of God, shalt thou find.

Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity - every noble course.

To the end that thou walk in the way of good men, and, the paths of the righteous, that thou observe.

My son, mine instruction, do not thou forget, and, my commandment, let thy heart observe;

So find thou favour and good repute, in the eyes of God and man.

Trust thou in Yahweh, with all thy heart, and, unto thine own understanding, do not lean:

Honour thou Yahweh, with thy substance, and with the firstfruit of all thine increase;

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes, guard thou counsel, and purpose:

Then, shalt thou walk securely in thy way, and, thy foot, shall not stumble;

When thou sittest down, thou shalt have no dread, yea thou shalt lie down, and sweet shall be thy sleep.

Be not thou afraid of sudden dread, nor of the desolation of the lawless, when it cometh.

Do not say to thy neighbour, Go and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee.

Do not thou envy the man of violence, neither choose thou any of his ways;

Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, Do not forget, neither decline thou from the sayings of my mouth.

The principal thing, is wisdom, acquire thou wisdom, With all thine acquisition, acquire thou understanding.

Exalt her, and she will set thee on high, she will bring thee to honour, when thou dust embrace her:

When thou walkest, thy step shall not be hemmed in, and, if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked:

My son, to my words, attend, to my sayings, incline thou thine ear;

Above all that must be guarded, keep thou thy heart, for, out of it, are the issues of life.

My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:

That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.

Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel:

So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;

And thou shalt say - How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;

Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.

A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.

Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?

My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbour, - have struck for a stranger thy hands,

Thou hast been snared by the sayings of thy mouth, - thou hast been caught by the sayings of thy mouth.

Do this then, my son, and deliver thyself, When thou hast come into the hand of thy neighbour, Go, haste thee, and urge thy neighbour;

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, observe her ways, and be wise;

How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie? how long ere thou rise from thy sleep?

Observe thou, my son, the commandment of thy father, and do not decline from the instruction of thy mother:

When thou walkest abroad, it shall guide thee, when thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee, when thou wakest, it shall speak to thee:

He will not look, at any ransom, neither will he consent, though thou increase the bribe.

Say unto wisdom, My sister, thou! and, an acquaintance, call thou, understanding:

That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.

If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it.

In the mouth of the foolish, is a haughty rod, but, as for the lips of the wise, thou shalt give heed to them!

Get thee from the presence of a man that is a dullard, when thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

A man in a rage, taketh away the penalty, - nevertheless, if thou let him go free, the more stripes must thou add.

Hear counsel, receive correction, that thou mayest be wise in thine after-life.

The scoffer, thou shalt smite, and, the simple, will beware, but correct a man of intelligence - he will understand teaching.

Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.

Plans - by counsel, shalt thou establish, and, with concerted measures, make thou war.

A revealer of secrets, is one who goeth about talebearing, therefore, with him who openeth his lips, shalt thou not have fellowship.

Do not say, I will requite wrong! Wait thou for Yahweh that he may save thee.

Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;

For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.

To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in:

Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?

Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, thou shall consider well, what is before thee;

And shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art:

Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.

Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties;

As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.

Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest him with the rod, he shall not die:

Thou, with the rod, shalt smite him, and, his soul from hades, shalt thou deliver.

Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.

Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.

So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea, - or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear:

Be not thou envious of wicked men, neither crave to be with them;

Surely, with concerted measures, shalt thou make for thyself war, and, success, lieth in the greatness of the counsellor.

Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.

Deliver thou such as are being led forth to death, and, them who are tottering to slaughter, oh that thou wouldst hold back!

Though thou say, Lo! we knew not this, Shall not, he that proveth hearts, himself, discern? And, he that formeth thy soul, himself, know? and bring back to a son of earth according to his deed?

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good, - and droppings from the comb because they are sweet to thy palate:

Thus, take knowledge of wisdom, for thine own soul; If thou find it, then there is a future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.

Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous, - neither destroy thou his place of rest;

When thine enemy falleth, do not thou rejoice, and, when he stumbleth, let not thy heart exult:

Revere thou Yahweh, my son, and the king, and, with the fickle, have thou no fellowship;

He that saith to the lawless man, Righteous, thou art, peoples shall denounce him, populations shall curse him;

Prepare, in the open, thy work, and make ready, in the field, for thyself, Afterwards, shalt thou build thy house.

Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips:

Do not honour thyself before a king, nor, in the place of great men, do thou stand;

For better it be said to thee, Come up hither, - than that thou be put lower down before a noble, whom thine own eyes, have beheld.

Do not go forth to strive in haste, - lest thou know not what to do in the latter end thereof, when thy neighbour, hath put thee to shame.

Thy contention, urge thou with thy neighbour, and, the secret of another, do not reveal:

Honey having found, eat to suffice thee, lest thou loathe it, and vomit it forth.

For, burning coals, shalt thou be heaping upon his head, - and, Yahweh, will repay thee.

Do not answer a dullard, according to his folly, lest, even thou thyself, become like him;

Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eye, - more hope of a dullard, than of him!

Do not boast thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Thine own friend and thy father's friend, do not thou forsake; but, the house of thy brother, do not enter, in thy day of calamity, Better a neighbour near, than a brother far off.

Though thou pound a fool in a mortar, amidst grain, with a pestle, his folly, will not depart from him.

Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words, - there is, more hope of a dullard, than of him.

Who hath ascended the heavens and then descended? Who hath gathered the wind into his two hands? Who hath wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who hath set up all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what the name of his son, when thou knowest?

Do not add unto his words, lest he convict thee, and thou be found false.

Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he revile thee, and thou be found guilty.

If thou hast acted basely by lifting thyself up, - if thou hast plotted evil, put thy hand to thy mouth!