12The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
13The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
14A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich — only to want.
17Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,