¹A name is chosen over great wealth, and good favor over silver and over gold.

²The rich and the poor meet together; Yahweh is the maker of them all.

³A shrewd one sees evil and hides himself, but the naive pass on and are fined.

⁴The reward of humility, the fear of Yahweh, is wealth and weightiness and life.

⁵Thorns and traps lie in the path of the twisted one; whoever guards his being keeps far from them.

⁶Train up the boy according to his way; even when he is old, he will not turn aside from it.

⁷The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the man who lends.

⁸One who sows injustice will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will come to an end.

⁹One who is good of eye, he will be blessed, for he gives some of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰Drive out the mocker, and conflict will go out; strife and shame will cease.

¹¹One who loves cleanness of heart, with favor on his lips, has the king for his friend.

¹²The eyes of Yahweh guard knowledge, but he twists the word of one who acts treacherously.

¹³The sluggish one says, A lion is outside; I will be murdered in the middle of the broad places.

¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; one with whom Yahweh is indignant will fall there.

¹⁵Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a boy; the rod of discipline will put it far from him.

¹⁶One who oppresses the poor to increase for himself, and one who gives to the rich, comes only to need.

¹⁷Stretch out your ear and hear the words of the wise, and set your heart to my knowledge.

¹⁸For it is pleasant when you keep them in your belly; they will be established together on your lips.

¹⁹So that your trust may be in Yahweh, I have taught you today, even you.

²⁰Have I not written to you, officers, with counsels and knowledge,

²¹to let you know the reality of reliable words, so as to bring back reliable words to those who sent you.

²²Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate.

²³For Yahweh will argue their case, and will rob the being of those who rob them.

²⁴Do not associate with a master of anger, and with a man of rages do not go.

²⁵lest you learn his ways and take a snare for your being.

²⁶Do not be among those who strike the palm, among those who stand surety for loans.

²⁷If there is nothing for you to pay, why would he take your bed from under you?

²⁸Do not move the boundary of forever that your fathers made.

²⁹You have seen a man swift in his work: he will take his stand before the face of kings; he will not take his stand before the face of the obscure.