To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Be not wise in thine own eyes; Fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

For Jehovah will be thy confidence, And will keep thy foot from being taken.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;

Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.

Now therefore, my'sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter , And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man'shall be satisfied from himself.

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.

The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.

To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Jehovah is far from the wicked; But he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; And by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.

Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue Keepeth his soul from troubles.

Thorns and'snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

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

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; And the destruction from them both, who knoweth it?

Take away the dross from the silver, And there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:

Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country.

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.

Many seek the ruler's favor; But a man's judgment cometh from Jehovah.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet are not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation whose teeth are as'swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all.

All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave ; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are the words of the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.

It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?

He made the pillars thereof of silver, The bottom thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, The midst thereof being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.

Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes that are newly'shorn, Which are come up from the washing, Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon: Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions dens, From the mountains of the leopards.

Thou art a fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon.

The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.

Turn away thine eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.

Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are come up from the washing; Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are'soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.

And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.

that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.

Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah- even the king of Assyria.