⁷ He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous; He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

⁸ He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of His saints.

⁹ Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,

¹¹ discretion shall preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee,

¹² to deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from men that speaketh froward things,

¹³ who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil and delight in the frowardness of the wicked,

¹⁵ whose ways are crooked and who are froward in their paths.

¹⁶ Wisdom will deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger, who flattereth with her words,

¹⁷ who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;

¹⁸ for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

¹⁹ None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

²⁰ Thus thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;

²² but the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

²⁰ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

²¹ Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

²² When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life

²⁴ to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

7 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

² Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the tablet of thine heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, “Thou art my sister,” and call understanding thy kinswoman,

⁵ that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the harlot who flattereth with her words.

¹⁹ In the multitude of words there lacketh not sin, but he that restraineth his lips is wise.

³ The mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve him.

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it and is safe.

²³ Whoso guardeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the path of the froward; he that doth keep his soul shall stay far from them.

²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go,

²⁵ lest thou learn his ways and get a snare for thy soul.