1My son, don’t forget my teaching,
2for they will add to you length of days,
3Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
4So you will find favour,
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
6In all your ways acknowledge him,
7Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
8It will be health to your body,
9Honour the LORD with your substance,
10so your barns will be filled with plenty,
11My son, don’t despise the LORD’s discipline,
12for whom the LORD loves, he corrects,
13Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
14For her good profit is better than getting silver,
15She is more precious than rubies.
16Length of days is in her right hand.
17Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.
19By wisdom the LORD founded the earth.
20By his knowledge, the depths were broken up,
21My son, let them not depart from your eyes.
22so they will be life to your soul,
23Then you shall walk in your way securely.
24When you lie down, you will not be afraid.
25Don’t be afraid of sudden fear,
26for the LORD will be your confidence,
27Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,
28Don’t say to your neighbour, “Go, and come again;
29Don’t devise evil against your neighbour,
30Don’t strive with a man without cause,
31Don’t envy the man of violence.
32For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD,
33The LORD’s curse is in the house of the wicked,
34Surely he mocks the mockers,
35The wise will inherit glory,