12 Let no one regard with contempt your tza’irut (youth), but become a mofet (example) for the ma’aminim* in loshon (speech), in hitnahagut (conduct), in ahavah, in emunah, and in lev tahor.

6 The bochrim, similarly, you exhort to have seichel

1 Yeladim, obey your horim (parents) in Adoneinu, for this is right.* 2 KABED ES AVICHA V’ES IMMECHA,* which is the mitzvah harishonah with a havtacha, 3 That it may be well with you and you will be a long time on ha’aretz.

1 Yeladim, obey your horim (parents) in Adoneinu, for this is right.* 2 KABED ES AVICHA V’ES IMMECHA,* which is the mitzvah harishonah with a havtacha,

1 Remember now thy Bo’re (Creator) in the yamim of thy bechurot, while the yamei hara’ah come not, nor the shanim draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no chefetz (pleasure) in them;

1 Remember now thy Bo’re (Creator) in the yamim of thy bechurot, while the yamei hara’ah come not, nor the shanim draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no chefetz (pleasure) in them; 2 While the shemesh, or the ohr, or the yarei’ach, or the kokhavim, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; 3 In the yom when the shomrei habayit shall tremble, and the strong men shall stoop, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows grow dim,

9 Rejoice, O bochur, in thy yaldut (youth); and let thy lev cheer thee in the yamim of thy bechurim (youth), and walk in the ways of thine lev, and in the sight of thine eynayim; but have da’as of this; that for all these things HaElohim will bring thee into mishpat.

10 Therefore banish ka’as (sorrow) from thy lev, and put away ra’ah from thy basar; for yaldut and shacharut (prime of life) are hevel.

13 Better is a poor and a wise yeled than an old and foolish melech, who will no more be admonished.

30 Even the ne’arim (youths) shall faint and grow weary,

and the bochurim shall utterly fall;

31 But they that wait upon Hashem shall renew their ko’ach;

they shall mount up with wings as eagles;

they shall run, and not grow weary;

and they shall walk, and not faint.

17 As for these four yeladim, G-d gave them knowledge and skill in all sefer and chochmah, and Daniel had understanding in all chazon (visions) and chalomot (dreams). 18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he would bring them in, then the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nevukhadnetzar. 19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Chananyah, Mishael, and Azaryah; therefore stood they before the king.

29 The tiferet (glory) of bochurim is their ko’ach (strength),

and the hadar (splendor) of zekenim is the silvery head.

11 Even a na’ar (child) is known by his ways,

whether his conduct be pure, and whether it be yashar (right).

9 How shall a na’ar cleanse his way?

By being shomer thereto according to Thy Davar (Word).

11 Thy word have I hid in my lev,

lema’an (so that) I might not sin against Thee.

5 For Thou art my tikveh (hope), Adonoi Hashem;

Thou art my trust from my youth.

12 Both bochurim, and betulot;

zekenim, and ne’arim:

13 Let them praise the Shem of Hashem:

for Shmo alone is excellent;

His hod is above Eretz and Shomayim.

1 Mishlei Sh’lomo Ben Dovid, Melech Yisroel;

2 To have da’as of chochmah and musar (discipline);

to understand the words of binah;

3 To receive the musar of those with seichel,

tzedek and mishpat, and meisharim (equity, uprightness);

4 To give subtlety to the simple,

to the na’ar, da’as and discretion.

19 Hear thou, beni (my son), and be chacham,

and guide thine lev straight on the derech.

20 Be not among yayin gluttons;

among gluttonous eaters of basar,

21 For the drunkard and the zolel (glutton) shall come to poverty,

and drowsiness shall clothe with rags.

22 Pay heed unto avicha that fathered thee,

and despise not immecha when she is old.

6 Then said I: Ah, Adonoi Hashem! hinei, I have no da’as to speak; for I am a na’ar. 7 But Hashem said unto me:

Say not, Na’ar anochi;

for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,

and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

8 Be not afraid of them;

for I am with thee to deliver thee,

saith Hashem.

11 For I know the machshavot (thoughts, plans) that I think toward you, saith Hashem, machshavot shalom, and not of ra’ah, to give you an acharit (future) and a tikvah (hope). 12 Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and v’hitpalaltem (and you [plural] will pray) unto Me, and I will pay heed unto you.* 13 And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me b’chol lvavchem (with all your heart). 14 And I will be found by you, saith Hashem; and I will bring you back from captivity, and I will gather you from all the Goyim, and from all the mekomot (places) where I have driven you, saith Hashem; and I will bring you back into the makom (place) from which I caused you to be carried away into the Golus.

7 Only chazak (be strong) and very courageous, that thou mayest be shomer to do according to kol HaTorah, which Moshe Avdi commanded thee; turn not from it to the yamin or to the semol, in order that thou mayest succeed everywhere thou goest. 8 This Sefer HaTorah shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate on it yomam valailah so that thou mayest be shomer to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy derech prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 9 Have not I commanded thee? Chazak! And be of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for Hashem Eloheicha is with thee everywhere thou goest.

5 Likewise, bochrim (young men), be submissive to the Zekenim (Elders) and clothe yourselves in the kaftan of anavah (humility) toward one another, because IM LALETZIM HU YALITZ V’LA’ANAYIM YITEN CHEN* (Indeed Hashem scorns the scorners, but gives grace to the humble).

6 Therefore, be humbled under the mighty hand of Hashem, that you may be exalted in due time.

14 I wrote to you, yeladim, because you have had da’as of HaAv; I wrote to you, avot, because you have had da’as of the One Bereshis. I wrote to you, yungelait (young people), because you are chazakim (strong ones) and the Dvar Hashem makes His maon in you and you have conquered the evil one.

13 Let us conduct ourselves decently as in HaYom (The Day), not in carousing and shichrut (drunkenness), not in zenut (fornication) and debauchery and zimmah (licentiousness), not in merivah (strife) and quarreling and anochiyut (selfishness) and kinah (jealousy).

27 It is tov for a gever that

he bear the ol (yoke) from his youth.