[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.

[in order] to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful [ones].

[in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

in order that you may walk in the way of good and keep the paths of the righteous.

In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.

Hear, O children, the instruction of a father,
And pay attention [and be willing to learn] so that you may gain understanding and intelligent discernment.

[in order] to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips.

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.

[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

[in order] to endow those who love me [with] wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.

For when he made the heavens, I was present; when he set up the depths in order;

Happy [is the] person who listens to me, [in order] to keep watch at my doors day by day, [in order] to guard the frames of my entrances.

hath slaughtered her beasts, hath mingled her wine, hath even set in order her table;

[in order] to call to those who pass by the road, those who go straight [on] their way:

The teaching of the wise [is] a fountain of life, [in order] to avoid the snares of death.

The fear of Yahweh [is] a fountain of life, [in order] to turn from the snares of death.

The path of life [leads] upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.

The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.

He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.

[In order] for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made [them] known to you {today}--even you.

[In order] to show you what is right--sayings of truth-- [in order] to return a true saying to him who sent you.

When thou sittest at the table to eat with a lord, order thyself mannerly with the things that are set before thee.

Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist

Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.