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To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:


We will find and take all kinds of precious possessions,
We will fill our houses with spoil;

Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

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

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

Therefore my son, do this: and thou shalt be discharged, when thou art come into thy neighbour's danger. Go thy ways then soon, and entreat thy neighbour:

so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him.

One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.

She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

"O come on your way, eat my bread, and drink my wine, which I have poured out for you.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.


A man will be commended according to his insight and sound judgment,
But the one who is of a perverse mind will be despised.


The ransom for a man’s life is his wealth,
But the poor man does not even have to listen to a rebuke or threats [from the envious].

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.


Do they not go astray who devise evil and wander from the way of righteousness?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.


A bribe is like a bright, precious stone in the eyes of its owner;
Wherever he turns, he prospers.

A man seeketh, for satisfaction, going his own way, through all safe counsel, he breaketh.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.