1 insight,
2for I give you good precepts:
do not forsake my teaching.
3 1 Chr 22.5 When I was a son with my father,
tender and my mother’s favorite,
4 1 Chr 28.9; Prov 7.2 he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments and live.
5 v 7 ; Prov 16.16Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away
from the words of my mouth.
6 2 Thess 2.10 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
love her, and she will guard you.
7 Prov 23.23 The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom,
and whatever else you get, get insight.
8 1 Sam 2.30 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will honor you if you embrace her.
9 Prov 1.9 She will place on your head a fair garland;
she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”
Admonition to Keep to the Right Path10Hear, my child, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
11 1 Sam 12.23 I have taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
12 Ps 18.36; Prov 3.23 When you walk, your step will not be hampered,
and if you run, you will not stumble.
13Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your life.
14 Ps 1.1; Prov 1.15 Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of evildoers.
15Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
16 Ps 36.4; Mic 2.1 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
17For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
18 2 Sam 23.4; Isa 26.7; Dan 12.3 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
19 Job 18.5; Isa 59.9, 10; Jer 23.12; Jn 12.35 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know what they stumble over.
20My child, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Prov 3.21; 7.1, 2 Do not let them escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart.
22 Prov 3.8; 12.18 For they are life to those who find them
and healing to all their flesh.
23 Mt 12.34; Mk 7.21; Lk 6.45 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
24 Prov 6.12; 19.1 Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.
25Let your eyes look directly forward
and your gaze be straight before you.
26 Ps 119.5; Heb 12.13 Keep straight the path of your feet,
and all your ways will be sure.
27 Deut 5.32; 28.14; Prov 1.15 Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
turn your foot away from evil.
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