¹My son, do not forget my instruction, and let your heart keep my commandments.

²for length of days and years of life and wholeness they will add to you.

³Do not let loyal love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴and find favor and good insight in the eyes of God and humankind.

⁵Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

⁶In all your ways know him, and he will make straight your paths.

⁷Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Yahweh and turn aside from evil.

⁸May it be healing to your navel and refreshment to your bones.

⁹Honor Yahweh from your wealth and from the first of all your harvest,

¹⁰so your barns will be filled with abundance, and your vats will burst open with new wine.

¹¹My son, do not reject the discipline of Yahweh, and do not loathe his rebuke.

¹²for the one whom Yahweh loves he reproves, even as a father the son he is pleased with.

¹³Blessed is the person who finds wisdom, and the person who obtains understanding.

¹⁴For her profit is better than the profit of silver, and her gain than gold.

¹⁵She is more precious than corals, and none of your delights equals her.

¹⁶Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are wealth and weightiness.

¹⁷Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are wholeness.

¹⁸She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and those who hold fast to her are called blessed.

¹⁹By wisdom Yahweh founded the land; he established the skies by understanding.

²⁰By his knowledge the deeps were split open, and the clouds drip dew.

²¹My son, do not let them depart from your eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion.

²²and they will be life for your being and favor for your neck.

²³Then you will walk on your way in security, and your foot will not stumble.

²⁴If you lie down, you will not be afraid; you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

²⁵Do not be afraid of sudden terror, or of the devastation of the wicked when it comes.

²⁶for Yahweh will be your confidence, and he will keep your foot from capture.

²⁷Do not withhold good from its owners when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

²⁸Do not say to your neighbor, "Go and come back, and tomorrow I will give it," when you have it with you.

²⁹Do not devise evil against your neighbor while he lives in security beside you.

³⁰Do not contend with a man for no cause, if he has not done evil to you.

³¹Do not envy a man of violence, and do not choose any of his ways.

³²for the crooked person is an abomination to Yahweh, but his intimacy is with the upright.

³³The curse of Yahweh is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

³⁴Though he mocks the mockers, he gives favor to the humble.

³⁵The wise will inherit weightiness, but fools raise up shame.