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

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

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.

Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;

At the head of bustling streets, she crieth aloud, - at the openings of the gates in the city - her sayings, she doth utter: -

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

They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

that thou wilt incline thin ears unto wisdom; apply thine heart then to understanding.

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

If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure;

For length of days and years of life [worth living]
And tranquility and prosperity [the wholeness of life’s blessings] they will add to you.

because her profit is better than the profit of silver, and her yield than fine gold.

Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know.

The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom 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.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

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

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?

Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

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

My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

when He set a limit for the sea
so that the waters would not violate His command,
when He laid out the foundations of the earth.

hath sent forth her maidens, She crieth aloud, upon the tops of the heights of the city:

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.

Old age a crown of glorying, shall be found in the way of justice.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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

From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach will be satisfied, as for the yield of his lips, it will satisfy.

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 glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

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

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.

Whoever oppresses the poor to enrich himself and whoever gives gifts to the wealthy will yield only loss.

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

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

and if thou wilt rule thy own self, be not over greedy of his meat, for meat beguileth and deceiveth.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

They have stricken me, wilt 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.

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

If thou wilt say, "I knew not of it"; Thinkest thou that he which made the hearts, doth not consider it? And that he which regardeth thy soul, seeth it not? Shall not he recompense every man according to his works?

For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head, And Jehovah will reward thee.

Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying,
So the curse without cause does not come and alight [on the undeserving].

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

Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.

He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

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

Without revelation people run wild,
but one who listens to instruction will be happy.

Two things I asked from thee, thou wilt not withhold from me before I shall die:

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

An old lion -- mighty among beasts, That turneth not back from the face of any,

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