| Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth. | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. | Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. |
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| Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. | Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. |
| I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths. | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. |
| My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart. | My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. |
| Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. |
| Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. |
| Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. |
| Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. |
| Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil. | Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. |
