An excellent wife, who can find her? For her worth is far above jewels. | Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. |
Open your mouth for the people who cannot speak, For the rights of all the unfortunate. | Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. |
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Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the poor and needy. | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. | Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. |
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction. | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. |
Turn to my rebuke, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. | Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. |
For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. | For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity. | He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. |
Guarding the paths of justice, And He watches over the way of His godly ones. | He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. |
Then you will discern righteousness, justice, And integrity, and every good path. | Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. |
My son, do not forget my teaching, But have your heart comply with my commandments; For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you. | My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. |
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and a good reputation In the sight of God and man. | Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. |
Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. | Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. |
Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body And refreshment to your bones. | Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. |
Honor the Lord from your wealth, And from the first of all your produce. | Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase. |
My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord Or loathe His rebuke, For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, Just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights. | My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. |
Blessed is a person who finds wisdom, And one who obtains understanding. | Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. |
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in your power to do it. | Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. |
Do not envy a violent person, And do not choose any of his ways. For the devious are an abomination to the Lord; But He is intimate with the upright. | Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous. |
Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth. | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom; And with all your possessions, acquire understanding. | Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. |
Listen, my son, and accept my sayings, And 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 instructed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in upright paths. | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. |
My son, pay attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. They are not to escape from your sight; Keep them in the midst 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. |
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. |