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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.