The righteous shall spend many years in wealth, but the unrighteous shall perish suddenly.

Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean, but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent.

With everyone who is careful there is abundance, but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in want.

My son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.

He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.

[ 3:20] In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the ground out of which you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

You shall eat the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it shall be well with you.

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working that which is good with his hands, in order that he may have something to share with him who has need.

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

in order that you may walk decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you,

[My] son, let not ungodly men lead you astray, neither shall you consent [to them].

and let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:

but cast in your lot with us, and let us all provide a common purse, and let us have one pouch:

[This translation omits this verse.]

For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.

In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, do not go there; but turn from them, and pass away.

But the adulterer through lack of understanding procures destruction to his soul.

passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

Forsake folly, that you may reign forever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.

A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to want a morsel.

saying, Whoever is [the] most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those that want prudence, saying,

If you walk with wise men you shall be wise, but he that walks with fools shall be known.

And they gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith; and Abimelech hired for himself vain and cowardly men, and they went after him.

I have not sat with the council of vanity, and shall by no means enter in with transgressors.

[ 2:9] Those that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

For there are also many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

whom it is necessary to shut [their] mouths, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.