For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

When I was a son to my father,
Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,

For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

“I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

In the twilight, in the evening;
In the black and dark night.

And behold, there met him a woman with open tokens of a harlot. Only her heart was hid.

She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house.

She caught the young man, kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying,

“I was due to offer peace offerings;
Today I have paid my vows.

“From everlasting I was established,
From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.

“When there were no depths I was brought forth,
When there were no springs abounding with water.

“Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills I was brought forth;

The earth and all that is upon the earth was not yet made, no not the ground itself.

“When He established the heavens, I was there,
When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

Then I was beside Him, as a master workman;
And I was daily His delight,
Rejoicing always before Him,

Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

The just one was delivered from straits, and the unjust will come in his stead.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for [the hands of] the righteous.

A heart of joy will do the face good: and by pains of heart the spirit was dejected.

The way of the slothful as the cutting of the thorn: and the path of the upright was raised up.

The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,

Judgment was prepared for those mocking, and blows for the back of the foolish.

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

The robberies of the ungodly shall be their own destruction; for they would not do the thing that was right.

Don't remove an ancient boundary stone that was set up by your ancestors.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

The slothful one hid his hand in the dish; he was weary to turn it back to his mouth.

So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, “Was I not joking?”

Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains.

For three the earth was moved, and for four, which it shall not be able to lift up:

The words of Lemuel the king, - the strain which was taught him by his mother: -

She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread.

Her husband was known in the gates, in his sitting with the old men of the land.