31My son, don’t forget my teaching;but let your heart keep my commandments:+2for length of days, and years of life,and peace, will they add to you.+3Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.Bind them around your neck.Write them on the tablet of your heart.+4So you will find favor,and good understanding in the sight of God and man.+5Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,and don’t lean on your own understanding.+6In all your ways acknowledge him,and he will make your paths straight.+7Don’t be wise in your own eyes.Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.+8It will be health to your body,and nourishment to your bones.+9Honor Yahweh with your substance,with the first fruits of all your increase:+10so your barns will be filled with plenty,and your vats will overflow with new wine.+11My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline,neither be weary of his reproof:+12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves;even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.+
The Blessings of Wisdom
13Happy is the man who finds wisdom,the man who gets understanding.+14For her good profit is better than getting silver,and her return is better than fine gold.+15She is more precious than rubies.None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.+16Length of days is in her right hand.In her left hand are riches and honor.+17Her ways are ways of pleasantness.All her paths are peace.+18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.Happy is everyone who retains her.+19By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth.By understanding, he established the heavens.+20By his knowledge, the depths were broken up,and the skies drop down the dew.+21My son, let them not depart from your eyes.Keep sound wisdom and discretion:+22so they will be life to your soul,and grace for your neck.+23Then you shall walk in your way securely.Your foot won’t stumble.+24When you lie down, you will not be afraid.Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.+25Don’t be afraid of sudden fear,neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:+26for Yahweh will be your confidence,and will keep your foot from being taken.+27Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,when it is in the power of your hand to do it.+28Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again;tomorrow I will give it to you,”when you have it by you.+29Don’t devise evil against your neighbor,since he dwells securely by you.+30Don’t strive with a man without cause,if he has done you no harm.+31Don’t envy the man of violence.Choose none of his ways.+32For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,but his friendship is with the upright.+33Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked,but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.+34Surely he mocks the mockers,but he gives grace to the humble.+35The wise will inherit glory,but shame will be the promotion of fools.+
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