In the way of wisdom I have instructed you; I have led you in the path of uprightness.

In the path of the wicked do not go; do not walk in the way of those who do evil.

The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure.

She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, [and] she does not know [it].

For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.

Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

For [like] a lamp [is] a commandment, and instruction [is] light, and the way of life [is the] reproof of discipline,

May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.

The ways of Sheol [are] her house, descending to chambers of death.

The fear of Yahweh [is] hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity.

In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice,

"Yahweh possessed me, [the] first of his ways, before his acts {of old}.

"And now, children, listen to me; happy [are] those who will keep my ways.

Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding."

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

Whoever walks in integrity will walk securely, but whoever follows perversity, his ways will be made known.

A stronghold for the upright is the way of Yahweh, but ruin [belongs] to {evildoers}.

The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.

An abomination of Yahweh [are] the {crooked of heart}, but his delight [are] {those with blameless ways}.

The way of a fool is upright in his [own] eyes, but he who listens to advice [is] wise.

A righteous person will seek out his neighbor, but the way of the wicked will lead them astray.

On the road of righteousness is life, and [on] the way of the path, [may there be] no death.

Righteousness will guard the upright of way, but wickedness will overthrow sin.

Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse.

He who walks in uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is devious [in] his ways displeases him.

The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.

There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.

From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and {from his own}, [so shall] a good man.

An abomination of Yahweh is the way of the wicked, but he who pursues righteousness he will love.

Severe discipline [belongs] to him who forsakes the way; he who hates a rebuke will die.

The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.

All the ways of a man [are] pure in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the spirit.

When the ways of a man are pleasing [to] Yahweh, even his enemies he will cause to make peace with him.

The {mind} of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.

The highway of the upright, it turns from evil, he who guards himself keeps his way.

There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good.

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

As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage.

He who guards commandments guards his life; he who is careless of his ways will be killed.

[Away] from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?

Every way of a man is upright in his [own] eyes, but Yahweh weighs hearts.

Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct.

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest.

Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them.

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

lest you learn his way and become entangled in a snare to yourself.

My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.

[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.

Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.

He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.

the way of the eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.

This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong."

Do not give your strength to the women, and your ways to destroy kings.

She looks after the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she will not eat.

The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

many peoples shall come. And they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob, and may he teach us part of his ways, and let us walk in his paths." For instruction shall go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

For Yahweh said this to me {while his hand weighed heavily on me}, and he {warned me not to walk} in the way of this people, saying,

{But there will be no gloom for those who were in distress}. In former times he treated [the] land of Zebulun and Naphtali with contempt, but in the future he will honor the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee [of] the nations.

[The] way of the righteous [is] a straight path; {you clear the level path of the righteous}.

turn aside from [the] way, turn aside from [the] path, put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face."

And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this [is] the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left.

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. [The] unclean shall not travel through it, but it [is] for them, he who walks [on the] way; and fools shall not wander about.

Because you were enraged {against} me, and your noise has come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle on your lips, and I will turn you back on the way [by] which you came.

He shall return by the way that he came, and he shall not come to this city,' {declares} Yahweh.

A voice [is] calling in the wilderness, "Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God!

With whom has he consulted, that he enlightened him and taught him [the] path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and made [the] way of understanding known to him?

{Why} do you say, Jacob, and you speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my judgment is passed over by my God?"

Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? [Was it] not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not {obey} his law.

Thus says Yahweh, who {makes} a way in the sea and a path in [the] mighty waters,

Look! I [am] about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will {make} a way in the wilderness, rivers in [the] desert.

I, I myself, I have spoken! Indeed, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will be successful [in] his way.

Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "I [am] Yahweh your God, {who teaches} you to profit, leads you in [the] way you should go.

saying to the {prisoners}, "Come out!" to those who [are] in darkness, "Show yourselves!" they shall feed {along} [the] ways, and their pasturage [shall be] on all [the] barren heights.

Are you not the one who dried up [the] sea, [the] waters of [the] great deep, the one who {made} [the] depths of [the] sea a way for those who are redeemed to cross over?

All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

Let [the] wicked forsake his way, and [the] man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will {forgive manifold}.

"For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, and your ways [are] not my ways," {declares} Yahweh.

"For [as] [the] heavens are {higher} than [the] earth, so my ways are {higher} than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

And the dogs {have a greedy appetite}; they {are never satisfied}. And they are [the] shepherds! They do not have understanding. They all turn to their [own] way, each one for his [own] gain, {every one of them}.

You grow weary by the greatness of your way, [but] you did not say, 'Despairing!' You found the {renewal} of your {strength}, therefore you do not grow weak.

And one shall say, "Build up, build up! Clear [the] way! Remove [the] obstacles from the way of my people!"

I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart.

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense,

Yet they seek me day [by] day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced} righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments}, they desire the closeness of God.

If you hold your foot back from [the] Sabbath, [from] doing your affairs on {my holy day}, if you call the Sabbath a pleasure, the holy [day] of Yahweh honorable, if you honor him {more than} doing your ways, than finding your affairs and speaking a word,

They do not know [the] way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks} in it knows no peace.

Pass through, pass through the gates! Make the way clear {for} the people! Pile up, pile up the highway; clear [it] of stones! Lift up an ensign over the peoples!

Why do you make us wander, Yahweh? You harden our heart from your ways {so that we do not fear} you. Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.

You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them [in] ancient [times] and we were saved.

I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people, those who walk after their thoughts [in] the way [that is] not good,

The one who slaughters bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck [of] a dog. The one who offers an offering, [the] blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence.

Did you not do this to yourself, [by] forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?

And now {why do you go} the way of Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor? And {why do you go} the way of Assyria to drink the waters of the {Euphrates}?

"How can you say, 'I have not defiled myself, I have not gone after the Baals?' Look at your way in the valley, know what you have done. [You are] a young she-camel, interweaving her ways.

How well you do [on] your way to seek love! {Therefore} even [to] the wicked [woman] you can teach your ways.

How you go about so much changing your way! Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that against Yahweh your God you have rebelled, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every leafy tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' {declares} Yahweh."