You have ignored all my counsel, and my reproof you are not willing [to accept].

For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching.

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

For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,

do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into {the palm of your neighbor's hand}: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.

So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.

[With] coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt;

I have perfumed my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

"Come, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed.

With the passing of the tempest, there is no wickedness, but [the] righteous have a foundation forever.

He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks {sense}.

Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness [belong to] those who plan good.

Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes [and] have plenty bread.

Rich and poor have [much] in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them.

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

Have I not written for you thirty [sayings] with admonitions and knowledge?

and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a {big appetite}.

Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words.

But they who rebuke will have delight, and upon them blessings of goodness will come.

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

[If] you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, [but] those who hate unjust gain will have long days.

He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty [of] poverty.

The poor and a man of oppression have [this] in common: Yahweh gives {light to the eyes of them both}.

And I have not learned wisdom, nor will I know knowledge of the Holy One.

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

If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, [put your] hand to [your] mouth.

"Many daughters have done excellence, but {you surpass} all of them."