My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

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

Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

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

Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

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

So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.

Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.

Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.

The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.

And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.

Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.

And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel:

Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.

Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.

Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.

And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the peoples, say that his name is lifted up.

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.

Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.

Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.

For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:

And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.

For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste

And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.