To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.

I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error.

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.

He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.

A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.

A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;

Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.