³ Let love and faithfulness^(A) never leave you;
    bind them around your neck,
    write them on the tablet of your heart.^(B)
4 Then you will win favor and a good name
    in the sight of God and man.^(C)

¹¹ My son,^(A) do not despise the Lord’s discipline,^(B)
    and do not resent his rebuke,

²¹ For your ways are in full view^(A) of the Lord,
    and he examines^(B) all your paths.^(C)

¹⁶ There are six things the Lord hates,^(A)
    seven that are detestable to him:
¹⁷         haughty eyes,^(B)
        a lying tongue,^(C)
        hands that shed innocent blood,^(D)
18         a heart that devises wicked schemes,
        feet that are quick to rush into evil,^(E)
19         a false witness^(F) who pours out lies^(G)
        and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.^(H)

³ The eyes^(A) of the Lord are everywhere,^(B)
    keeping watch on the wicked and the good.^(C)

¹¹ Death and Destruction^[a] lie open before the Lord^(A)—
    how much more do human hearts!^(B)

²⁹ The Lord is far from the wicked,
    but he hears the prayer of the righteous.^(A)

16 To humans belong the plans of the heart,
    but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.^(A)

² All a person’s ways seem pure to them,^(B)
    but motives are weighed^(C) by the Lord.^(D)