1 A good sham (name) is more desirable than rab (great) riches, and tawab (good / proper function) favor is better than kasap (silver) and zahab (gold).
2 The ishayar (rich) and the rawash (poor) have this in common: Yahawah () is the maker of them all.
3 A irawam (prudent) man raah (see / saw) danger, and sathar (hides) himself; but the pathay (simple) ibar (pass over/through) on, and suffer for it.
4 The result of inawah (humility) and the yaraah (fear) of Yahawah () is wealth, honor, and chay (life).
5 Tzanayam (thorns) and pachayam (snares) are in the darak (path) of the iqash (wicked): whoever guards his napash (soul) stays from them.
6 Chanak (train) up a nair (child) in the darak (way) he should go, and when he is zaqan (old) he will not sawar (depart) from it.
7 The ishayar (rich) mashal (rule/have dominion) over the rawash (poor). The lawah (borrower) is ibad (servant) to the lender.
8 He who zarai (sows) iwal (wickedness) qatzar (reaps) trouble, and the shabat (rod) of his fury will be kalah (complete / finish).
9 He who has a generous iyan (eye) will be barak (blessed); for he shares his lacham (food) with the dal (poor).
10 Garash (drive) out the lawatz (mocker), and dayan (judge) will yatzaa (go out / come out) out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
11 He who ahab (love) purity of lab (heart) and speaks gracefully is the malak (king) rai (neigbor/another person).
12 The iyanay (eyes) of Yahawah () watch over daith (knowledge); but he frustrates the dabaray (words) of the bagad (unfaithful).
13 The itzal (sluggard) amar (said), “There is a aray (lion) outside! I will be ratzach (killed) in the rachabawath (streets)!”
14 The pah (mouth) of an adulteress is a imaq (deep) shawachah (pit): he who is under Yahawah () zaim (wrath) will napal (fall / be cast down) into it.
15 Awalath (folly) is qashar (bound) up in the lab (heart) of a nair (child): the shabat (rod) of mawasar (discipline) rachaq (drives) it far from him.
16 Whoever oppresses the dal (poor) for his own rabah (increase) and whoever nathan (give) to the ishayar (rich), both come to machasawar (poverty).
17 Natah (turn) your azan (ear), and listen to the dabaray (words) of the chakam (wise). Shayath (put / appoint / make) your lab (heart) to my teaching.
18 For it is a naiyam (pleasant) thing if you shamar (keep/guard) them batan (within) you, if yachad (all) of them are kawan (ready) on your shapah (lips).
19 That your mabatach (trust) may be in Yahawah (), I yadai (teach) you today, even you.
20 Haven't I kathab (write) to you thirty excellent things of mawaitzah (counsel) and daith (knowledge),
21 To yadai (teach) you amath (truth), reliable amaray (Amaray / Amorite), to give sound shawab (turn) to the ones who shalach (send) you?
22 Don't exploit the dal (poor), because he is dal (poor); and don't dakaa (crush) the inay (needy) in court;
23 For Yahawah () will rayab (plead) their case, and plunder the napash (soul) of those who plunder them.
24 Don't befriend a hot-tempered bail (man), and don't associate with bail (one) who harbors chamah (anger):
25 Lest you alap (learn) his arach (ways), and ensnare your napash (soul).
26 Don't you be one of those who thaqai (blow / sound alarm) kap (hands), of those who are collateral for mashaawath (debts).
27 If you don't have means to shalam (pay), why should he laqach (take / seize) away your mashakab (bed) from under you?
28 Don't move the iwalam (eternity) boundary gabawal (border/boundary), which your ab (father) ishah (make) set up.
29 Do you chazah (see) a ayash (man / husband) skilled in his malaakah (work)? He will yatzab (serve) malakayam (kings). He won't yatzab (serve) obscure men.