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

Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

“They would not accept my counsel,
They spurned all my reproof.

Why, my son, would you be infatuated
with a forbidden woman
or embrace the breast of a stranger?

For the ways of man are directly before the eyes of the Lord,
And He carefully watches all of his paths [all of his comings and goings].

Because he would not be reformed, he shall die: and for his great foolishness he shall be destroyed.

The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense;
He who would destroy himself does it.

Keep my commands and live;
protect my teachings
as the pupil of your eye.

All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.

When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the water would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

The woman Stupidity, is boisterous, so simple that she knoweth not what she would do;

The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.

Every, wise woman, buildeth up her house, but, a foolish one, with her own hands, would break it down.

A fool finds no satisfaction in trying to understand, for he would rather express his own opinion.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction that would cause thee to wander from the sayings of knowledge.

Many there be that would be called good-doers; but where shall one find a true faithful man?

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

He that setteth a fool in high dignity, that is even as if a man would bind a stone in a sling.

He who would restrain her restrains the wind,
And grasps oil with his right hand.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.