Proverbs 3:6-22

⁶In all thy ways think on him, and he shall dress thy goings.

⁷Be thou not wise with thyself; dread thou God, and go away from evil.

⁸For why health shall be in thy navel, and moisting of thy bones.

⁹Honour thou the Lord of thy chattel or substance, and of the best of all thy fruits give thou to poor men;

¹⁰and thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy pressers or presses shall flow with wine.

¹¹My son, cast thou not away the teaching of the Lord; and fail thou not, when thou art chastised of him.

¹²For the Lord chastiseth him, whom he loveth; and as a father in the son he pleaseth him.

¹³Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and that floweth with prudence.

¹⁴The getting thereof is better than the merchandise or chaffering of gold and of silver; the fruits thereof be the first and the cleanest.

¹⁵It is more precious than all riches; and all things that be desired, may not be comparisoned to this.

¹⁶Length of days is in the right half thereof, and riches and glory be in the left half thereof.

¹⁷The ways thereof be fair ways, and all the paths thereof be peaceable.

¹⁸It is a tree of life to them that take it; and he that holdeth it, is blessed.

¹⁹The Lord founded the earth by wisdom; he stablished heavens by prudence.

²⁰The depths of waters brake out by his wisdom; and clouds waxed alto-gether with dew.

²¹My son, these things float not away or not flow away from thine eyes; keep thou my law, and my counsel;

²²and life shall be to thy soul, and grace to thy cheeks.