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1 My son, don't forget my instruction, but let your mind keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and completeness they shall add to you.
3 Don't let mercy and truth forsake you; bind them on your neck; engrave them on the tablet of your mind,
4 and you will find favor and good sense in the sight of God and mankind.
5 Trust in Jehovah with all your innermost mind; and don't lean for support on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways know Him by experience, and He will lead you straight along your ways. *
7 Don't be wise in your own estimation, but reverence Jehovah and avoid adversity.
8 Then there shall be healing for your body and refreshment for your bones. *
9 Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase:
10 So your barns shall be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine.
11 My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; neither be weary of His correction:
12 For Jehovah corrects those He loves, just as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
13 Happy is the person who finds wisdom and the person who gets understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you can desire are not to be compared to her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are completeness.
18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her, and everyone who retains her is happy.
19 Jehovah has founded the Earth by wisdom; by understanding He has established the Heavens.
20 By His knowledge the depths are split open, and the clouds drop down the dew.
21 My son, don't let them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22 So they shall be life to your mind and favor to your neck.
23 Then you shall walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
24 When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yes, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
25 Neither be afraid of sudden terror nor of the devastation, when it comes, of those who are hostile to God,
26 for Jehovah shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken.
27 Don't withhold good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, then come again tomorrow, and I will give," when you have it.
29 Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.
30 Strive not with a man without cause if he has done you no harm.
31 Don't envy the oppressor; choose none of his ways.
32 To go wrong is a disgusting thing to Jehovah: but His intimate secret counsel is with the righteous.
33 The curse of Jehovah is in the family of the guilty, but He blesses the abode of the just.
34 Surely He mocks the mockers, but He gives favor to the humble.
35 The wise shall take possession of glory, but He lifts up fools to dishonor.