ECB(i)
1 My son, forget not my torah; and your heart guard my misvoth;
2 for they add to you length of days and years of life and shalom:
3 forsake not mercy and truth; bind them about your throat; inscribe them on the slab of your heart:
4 thus you find charism and good comprehension in the eye of Elohim and humanity.
5 Confide in Yah Veh with all your heart and lean not to your own discernment:
6 in all your ways know him and he straightens your paths:
7 be not wise in your own eyes; awe Yah Veh and turn aside from evil
8 - healing to your navel and moisture to your bones.
9 Honor Yah Veh with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce:
10 thus are your ingatherings filled with sufficiency and your troughs break forth with juice.
11 My son, neither spurn the discipline of Yah Veh nor abhor his reproof:
12 for whom Yah Veh loves, he reproves - even as a father the son who pleases him.
13 Blithe - the human who finds wisdom and the human who produces discernment:
14 better, the merchandise thereof than the merchandise of silver; and the produce thereof than ore:
15 she is more esteemed than pearls and all your desires are not comparable to her:
16 length of days is in her right; and in her left, riches and honor:
17 her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are shalom:
18 she is a tree of life to them who uphold her; and blithesome to them who uphold her.
19 Yah Veh, by wisdom, founded the earth; by discernment, he established the heavens;
20 by knowledge, he split the abysses and the vapours drip the dew.
21 My son, pervert them not from your eyes; guard substance and intrigue
22 - life to your soul and charism to your throat.
23 Then you walk your way confidently and stub not your foot:
24 you lie down; you dread not: yes, you lie down and your sleep pleases.
25 Neither awe sudden fear; nor the devastation of the wicked when it comes:
26 for Yah Veh is your hope and he guards your foot from capture.
27 Withhold not good from your masters when it is in the El of your hand to work it:
28 say not to your friend, Go and return, and tomorrow I give - when you have it by you:
29 inscribe not evil against your friend seeing he settles confidently by you:
30 strive not with humanity gratuitously if he deals you no evil:
31 neither envy the man of violence nor choose his ways:
32 for he who perverts is abhorrence to Yah Veh; and his private counsel is with the straight.
33 The curse of Yah Veh is in the house of the wicked; and he blesses the habitation of rest of the just.
34 Surely he scorns the scorners; yet he gives charism to the humble:
35 the wise inherit honor; and abasement is the exaltation of fools.