| 1 | My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: |
| 2 | for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you. |
| 3 | Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. |
| 4 | So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. |
| 5 | Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding. |
| 6 | In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. |
| 7 | Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil. |
| 8 | It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones. |
| 9 | Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: |
| 10 | so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. |
| 11 | My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: |
| 12 | for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. |
| 13 | Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. |
| 14 | For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. |
| 15 | She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. |
| 16 | Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. |
| 17 | Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. |
| 18 | She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her. |
| 19 | By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens. |
| 20 | By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew. |
| 21 | My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion: |
| 22 | so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck. |
| 23 | Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't stumble. |
| 24 | When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet. |
| 25 | Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes: |
| 26 | for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken. |
| 27 | Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. |
| 28 | Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you. |
| 29 | Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you. |
| 30 | Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm. |
| 31 | Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. |
| 32 | For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright. |
| 33 | Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. |
| 34 | Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble. |
| 35 | The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools. |
