For Jehovah shall be your hope, and shall keep your foot from being taken.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not; nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

Avoid it; do not pass by it; turn from it, and pass on!

Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

Put away from you a wicked mouth, and devious lips put far from you.

Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

And now hear me, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hunter's hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

Jehovah possessed me from the beginning of His way, before His works of old.

I was anointed from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth ever was.

For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor from Jehovah.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivers from death.

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

The good gets grace from Jehovah, but He will condemn a man of wicked thoughts.

From the fruit of his mouth a man shall eat good, but the soul of the treacherous eats violence.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

The desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but it is hateful to fools to turn from evil.

Go from before a foolish man when you do not see in him the lips of knowledge.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from himself.

A wise one fears and departs from evil, but the fool rages and is sure.

The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life to turn aside from the snares of death.

The way of life is above to the wise, so that he may turn away from hell below.

Jehovah is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

The ordering of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from Jehovah.

By mercy and truth, iniquity is purged, and by the fear of Jehovah men turn away from evil.

The way of the upright is to turn away from evil; he who keeps his way guards his way.

He who labors works for himself, for his mouth craves it from him.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing of it is from Jehovah.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Whoever finds a wife finds good and gets favor from Jehovah.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

All the brothers of the poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are lacking.

Houses and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

My son, cease to hear the discipline, only to stray from the words of knowledge.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool exposes himself.

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

Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge from him for strangers.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but safety is from Jehovah.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

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

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

If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding.

Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.

lest Jehovah see, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the refiner.

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be founded in righteousness.

Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you and hate you.

Like cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.

Take his robe that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a strange woman.

Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.

For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is a hateful thing.

He pampering his servant from youth, that one in his latter days shall be his successor.

Many seek the ruler's favor; but each man's judgment comes from Jehovah.

I have asked two things from You; do not deny them before I die;

remove far from me vanity and a lying word; give me neither poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread,

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

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

She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I did not withhold my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor, and this was my part of all my labor.

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

For who can eat, or who can enjoy, apart from me?

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

He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God does it so that they fear before Him.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.

As he came forth from his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go as he came. And from his labor he may not carry anything that may go in his hand.

It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this do not withdraw your hand; for he who fears God shall come forth from all of them.

All this I have proved by 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 her hands like bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came and went from the holy place. And they were forgotten in the city, these things that they had done. This is also vanity.

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a sin which comes from a ruler's presence;

Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life are vanity.

The words of the wise are like goads; yes, their collected words are like nails driven home; they are given from one Shepherd.

My Beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, He stands behind our wall, He looks forth at the windows, peering from the lattice.

But a little while after I passed from them, I found Him whom my soul loves. I held Him and would not let Him go, until I had brought Him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who conceived me.

Who is this coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, from all the merchant's powders?

Behold, you are beautiful, My love. Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves' from behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, which came up from the washing; they all are bearing twins and not one is barren among them.

Come with Me from Lebanon, My spouse; with Me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

The watchmen who went about the city found me and struck me; they wounded me. The keepers of the wall lifted my veil from me.

Turn away your eyes from Me, for they have overcome Me; your hair is like a flock of goats that appears from Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes which go up from the washing; they all are bearing twins, and a barren one is not among them.

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her Beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree; there your mother travailed with you; there she travailed and bore you.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

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