1 Filho meu, se aceitares as minhas palavras

e esconderes contigo os meus mandamentos,

2 para fazeres atento à sabedoria o teu ouvido

e para inclinares o coração ao entendimento,

3 e, se clamares por inteligência,

e por entendimento alçares a voz,

4 se buscares a sabedoria como a prata

e como a tesouros escondidos a procurares,

5 então, entenderás o temor do Senhor

e acharás o conhecimento de Deus.

6 Porque o Senhor dá a sabedoria,

e da sua boca vem a inteligência e o entendimento.

7 Ele reserva a verdadeira sabedoria para os retos;

é escudo para os que caminham na sinceridade,

8 guarda as veredas do juízo

e conserva o caminho dos seus santos.

9 Então, entenderás justiça, juízo

e equidade, todas as boas veredas.

10 Porquanto a sabedoria entrará no teu coração,

e o conhecimento será agradável à tua alma.

11 O bom siso te guardará,

e a inteligência te conservará;

12 para te livrar do caminho do mal

e do homem que diz coisas perversas;

13 dos que deixam as veredas da retidão,

para andarem pelos caminhos das trevas;

14 que se alegram de fazer o mal,

folgam com as perversidades dos maus,

15 seguem veredas tortuosas

e se desviam nos seus caminhos;

16 para te livrar da mulher adúltera,

da estrangeira, que lisonjeia com palavras,

17 a qual deixa o amigo da sua mocidade

e se esquece da aliança do seu Deus;

18 porque a sua casa se inclina para a morte,

e as suas veredas, para o reino das sombras da morte;

19 todos os que se dirigem a essa mulher não voltarão

e não atinarão com as veredas da vida.

20 Assim, andarás pelo caminho dos homens de bem

e guardarás as veredas dos justos.

21 Porque os retos habitarão a terra,

e os íntegros permanecerão nela.

22 Mas os perversos serão eliminados da terra,

e os aleivosos serão dela desarraigados.

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words,

And lay up my commandments with thee;

2 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom,

And apply thy heart to understanding;

3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment,

And lift up thy voice for understanding;

4 If thou seek her as silver,

And search for her as for hid treasures:

5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah,

And find the knowledge of God.

6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom;

Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright;

He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

8 That he may guard the paths of justice,

And preserve the way of his saints.

9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice,

And equity, yea, every good path.

10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart,

And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

11 Discretion shall watch over thee;

Understanding shall keep thee:

12 To deliver thee from the way of evil,

From the men that speak perverse things;

13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness,

To walk in the ways of darkness;

14 Who rejoice to do evil,

And delight in the perverseness of evil;

15 Who are crooked in their ways,

And wayward in their paths:

16 To deliver thee from the strange woman,

Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

17 That forsaketh the friend of her youth,

And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

18 For her house inclineth unto death,

And her paths unto the dead;

19 None that go unto her return again,

Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,

And keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the land,

And the perfect shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land,

And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding —

3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,

5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair —every good path.

10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

13 who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. [^1]

18 Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.