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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.