My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat

Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:

My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

To attend to wisdom thou wilt incline thine ear, thy heart to understanding;

For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding

For wisdom shall come into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul.

My son, thou shalt not forget my law, and thy heart shall guard my commands:

Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding.

In all thy ways know him, and he will make straight thy paths.

It shall be healing to thy sinews, and moistening to thy bones.

Honor Jehovah from thy substance, and from the first-fruits of all thy produce.

And thy storehouses shall be filled with abundance, and thy wine-vats shall break forth with new wine.

She is precious above red corals: and all thy delights shall not be equal with her.

And they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy throat

Then shalt thou go thy way confidently, and thy foot shall not stumble.

If thou shalt lie down thou shalt not be afraid: and thou liest down and thy sleep shall be sweet

For Jehovah shall be in thy confidence, and he watched thy foot from being taken.

Thou shalt not withhold good from those possessing it in its being to the power of thy hand to do.

Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee.

Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon thy neighbor, and he dwelling confidently with thee.

And he taught me, and he will say to me, Thy heart shall hold fast my words: watch my commands and live.

She will give to thy head a garland of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver thee.

In thy going, thy steps shall not be pressed; and if thou shalt run thou shalt not be weak.

Lay hold upon instruction, thou shalt not let go: guard her for she is thy life.

They shall not turn aside from thine eyes; watch them in the midst of thy heart

Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

Make level the track of thy feet, and all thy ways shall be prepared.

Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

To watch meditation, and thy lips shall guard knowledge.

Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel:

Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers;

And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness,

Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well.

Thy fountains shall be dispersed without; in the broad places streams of waters.

Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy youth.

My son, if thou becamest surety for thy friend, thou didst strike thy hands for a stranger;

Thou wert snared with the sayings of thy mouth, thou wert taken with the sayings of thy mouth.

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself when thou camest into the hand of thy friend; go humble thyself and enlarge thy friend.

How long, O slothful one, wilt thou lie down? when wilt thou rise from thy sleep?

And thy poverty came as he going, and thy want as a man of the shield.

My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:

Tie them always upon thy heart; bind them upon thy throat

In thy going about it shall lead thee; in thy lying down it shall watch over thee; and awaking, it shall speak to thee.

Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.

Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the tablet of thine heart

For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee.

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

For in me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

Roll to Jehovah thy works, and thy purposes shall be established.

Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.

Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.

Incline thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and thou shalt set thy heart to my knowledge.

For pleasant things if thou shalt watch them in thy belly; they shall be prepared together for thy lips.

For thy trust to be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, thee also.

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

If not to thee to requite, why shall he take thy bed from under thee?

Thou shalt not remove the old bound which thy fathers made.

And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.

Thy morsel which thou didst eat thou shalt vomit forth and destroy thy pleasant words.

In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.

Bring thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

And my reins shall exult in the speaking of thy lips uprightnesses.

Thy heart shall not envy against those sinning: but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart right in the way.

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

Thy father shall rejoice, and thy mother, and she begetting thee shall exult.

My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way.

Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness.

Wilt thou be discouraged in the day of straits thy strength is narrow.

If thou shalt say, Behold, we knew not this; will not he trying hearts, understand? and he guarding thy soul, knew? and he turned back to man according to his work.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; and the dropping of honey being sweet to thy palate.

So the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul if thou shalt find: and there is a latter state and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult:

Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field afterwards; and build thy house.

Thou shalt not be a witness gratuitously against thy neighbor, and deceive not with thy lips.

And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.

Thou shalt not go forth hastily to strive, lest what thou shalt do in its latter state in thy neighbor putting thee to shame.

Contend thy contention with thy neighbor; and thou shalt not reveal the secret of another:

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

Make rare thy foot from thy neighbor's house, lest he shall be satiated with thee, and hate thee.

A stranger shall praise thee, and not thy mouth; a stranger, and not thy lips.

Thy friend and thy father's friend thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt not go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: good he dwelling near, more than a brother far off.

Knowing, thou shalt know the face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy herds.

Lambs for thy clothing, and the he goats the price of the field.

And enough of goats' milk for thy bread, and for the bread of thy house, and the life of thy girls.

Correct thy son and he shall cause thee to rest, and he shall give delight to thy soul.

Thou shalt not give thy strength to women, and thy ways to the destroying of kings.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the judgment of all the sons of the surviving.

Open thy mouth; judge justly, and contend for the poor and needy.