001:031 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. 001:032 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them. 001:033 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm." 002:001 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; 002:002 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 002:003 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; 002:004 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: 002:005 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God. 002:006 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. 002:007 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity; 002:008 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. 002:009 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. 002:010 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 002:011 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, 002:012 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; 002:013 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 002:014 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; 002:015 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths: 002:016 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; 002:017 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God: 002:018 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. 002:019 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: 002:020 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. 002:021 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. 002:022 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. 003:001 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: 003:002 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you. 003:003 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 003:004 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 003:005 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding. 003:006 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. 003:007 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.