Proverbs 3:1-35 WEB

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