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3:1  My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
3:2  for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.
3:3  Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
3:4  So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
3:5  Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.
3:6  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
3:7  Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
3:8  It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
3:9  Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
3:10  so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
3:11  My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
3:12  for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
3:13  Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.
3:14  For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
3:15  She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
3:16  Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
3:17  Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
3:18  She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
3:19  By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
3:20  By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
3:21  My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
3:22  so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
3:23  Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't stumble.
3:24  When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
3:25  Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:
3:26  for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
3:27  Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
3:28  Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.
3:29  Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
3:30  Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
3:31  Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
3:32  For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.
3:33  Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
3:34  Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
3:35  The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.