If you love your life, stay away from the traps that catch the wicked along the way.

Listen, my child, be wise and give serious thought to the way you live.

It is foolish to follow your own opinions. Be safe, and follow the teachings of wiser people.

Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren

Examine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts.

Find out if there is any evil in me and guide me in the everlasting way.

"Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.

And he said to them, "Keep watch, and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.

Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do. Whatever else you get, get insight.

My child, hold on to your wisdom and insight. Never let them get away from you.

A gracious woman is respected, but a woman without virtue is a disgrace. Lazy people will never have money, but aggressive people will get rich.

Be careful what you say and protect your life. A careless talker destroys himself.

Here is a terrible thing that I have seen in this world: people save up their money for a time when they may need it,

A good person brings good things out of a treasure of good things; a bad person brings bad things out of a treasure of bad things.

For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,

all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean."

But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires.

Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.