Let the wise listen and increase their learning; let the person of understanding receive guidance

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes.

Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place.

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

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

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

Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly,
and don’t let your lips talk deviously.

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Let your way [in life] be far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation],

Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber.

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

For by means of a lewd woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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:

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

For many slain she has laid low, and countless [are] all of her killings.

Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

by me, princes lead,
as do nobles and all righteous judges.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

Before the foundations of the mountains were laid, yea before all hills was I born.

I was there when He established the heavens,
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

when He set a limit for the sea
so that the waters would not violate His command,
when He laid out the foundations of the earth.

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

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know {it}.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

The Lord will not let the righteous go hungry,
but He denies the wicked what they crave.

Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.

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

The wages of the righteous [the upright, those in right standing with God] is [a worthwhile, meaningful] life,
The income of the wicked, punishment.

The innocent dealing of the just shall lead them; but the unfaithfulness of the despisers shall be their own destruction.

Whoso hordeth up his corn, shall be cursed among the people; but blessing shall light upon his head that selleth it.

The words of the wicked lead to bloodshed, but the speech of the upright delivers them.

Whoever tills his soil will have a lot to eat, but anyone who pursues fantasies lacks sense.

The diligent hand will rule,
but laziness will lead to forced labor.

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

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.

In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

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

A fool’s lips lead to strife,
and his mouth provokes a beating.

The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

A wise man putteth off displeasure, and it is his honour to let some faults pass.

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

A man in a rage, taketh away the penalty, - nevertheless, if thou let him go free, the more stripes must thou add.

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

The reverence of Yahweh, leadeth to life, satisfied then, let a man remain - let him not be visited by calamity.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

It is by his deeds that a lad distinguishes himself
If his conduct is pure and right.

Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

The light of Jehovah is the breath of man, searching all the chambers of the belly.

Lifting up the eyes and enlarging the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.

The plans of the diligent only [lead] to abundance, but all who are hasty, only to want.

Spears and snares are in the way of the froward; but he that will keep his soul, let him flee from such.

Foolishness sticketh in the heart of the lad; but the rod of correction driveth it away.

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich—both lead only to poverty.

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

Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.

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