7 If you want to be wise, you must begin by revering Yahweh.

Only foolish people despise wisdom and good advice/discipline.

10 If you want to be wise, you must start by revering Yahweh,

and if you know God, the Holy One, you will understand which teachings are wise/true.

33 If you revere Yahweh, you will learn how to become wise,

but only after you become humble will people honor you.

16 Being poor and revering Yahweh

is better than being rich and having a lot of troubles.

13 All the people who revere Yahweh hate evil.

I, wisdom, hate people who are proud and people who think they are more important than others.

I hate people who behave in an evil way and those who say things to deceive others.

4 The reward that Yahweh gives to those who are humble and who revere him

is that he causes them to be rich and honored and to live for a long time.

7 Do not be proud of being wise.

Instead, revere Yahweh

and turn away from doing evil.

8 If you do that, your body will be healthy/strong;

it will be like medicine for you.

30 Some women who are attractive are not really good women,

but they can deceive us regarding what they are really like.

Furthermore, women’s beauty does not last;

but women who revere Yahweh should be honored.

13 Now you have heard all that I have told you,

and here is the conclusion:

Revere God, and obey his commandments,

because those commandments summarize everything that people should do.

10 Revering Yahweh is the way to become wise.

All those who obey his commands will know what is good for them to decide to do.

We should praise him forever!

1 Praise Yahweh!

◄Happy are/He is pleased with► those who revere him,

those who happily obey his commands.

1 ◄Happy are/Yahweh is pleased with► those of you who revere him

and do what he wants you to do [IDM].

18 Do not forget that Yahweh watches over those who revere him,

those who confidently expect him to faithfully love them.

7 And because God has blessed us,

I desire that all people everywhere [MTY] on the earth will revere him.

2 But as for you who revere me [MTY], the one who will save you will come to you like [MET] the sun shines in the morning, and enable you to become righteous (OR, do what is righteous); he will restore you and protect you like a bird protects its chicks [MET] under its wings. When he comes, you will be very joyful, like [SIM] calves that go out from a barn into the pasture leaping joyfully.

12 "Now, you Israeli people, I will tell you [RHQ] what Yahweh our God requires/demands that you do. He requires you to revere him, to conduct your lives as he wants you to, to love him, and to serve him wholeheartedly [DOU], 13 and to obey all of his commandments [DOU] which I am giving to you today for your benefit.

4 You must conduct your lives as Yahweh our God wants you to, and you must revere him, and do what he tells you to do [MTY], and worship only him, and ◄be faithful to/have a close relationship with► him.

21 Furthermore, because the midwives feared/revered God, he enabled them also to give birth to children.

1 My friends, whom I love, because God has promised to accept us(inc) as his children, we (inc) must stop doing anything that is sinful. We must not do sinful things with our bodies, and we must not think sinful thoughts. Because we greatly revere God, we must strive to live a completely pure life. By doing that we will become the kind of people that he wants us to be.

7 Give to all the officials what you are supposed to give to them! Pay taxes to those who require that you pay taxes. Pay duties on goods to those who require that you pay those duties. Respect those who ought to be respected. Honor those who ought to be honored.

14 "When a man has many troubles, his friends should be kind to him,

even if he stops revering Almighty God.