¹My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

¹Sine moj, ako primiš moje riječi i pohraniš u sebi moje zapovijedi,

²So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

²i uhom svojim osluhneš mudrost i obratiš svoje srce razboru;

³Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

³jest, ako prizoveš razum i zavapiš za razborom;

⁴If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

⁴ako ga potražiš kao srebro i tragaš za njim kao za skrivenim blagom -

⁵then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” .

⁵tada ćeš shvatiti strah Gospodnji i naći ćeš Božje znanje.

⁶For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

⁶Jer Jahve daje mudrost, iz njegovih usta dolazi znanje i razboritost.

⁷He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

⁷On pravednicima pruža svoju pomoć, štit je onih koji hode u bezazlenosti.

⁸that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

⁸Jer on štiti staze pravde i čuva pute svojih pobožnika.

⁹Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

⁹Tada ćeš shvatiti pravdu, pravicu, pravednost i sve staze dobra,

¹⁰For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

¹⁰jer će mudrost ući u tvoje srce i spoznaja će obradovati tvoju dušu.

¹¹Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

¹¹Oprez će paziti na te i razboritost će te čuvati:

¹²to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

¹²da te izbavi od zla puta, od varava čovjeka,

¹³who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

¹³od onih koji ostavljaju staze poštenja te idu mračnim putovima;

¹⁴who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁴koji se vesele čineći zlo i likuju u opačinama zloće;

¹⁵who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

¹⁵kojih su staze krive i koji su opaki na svojim putovima;

¹⁶To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

¹⁶da te izbavi od preljubnice i od tuđinke koja laska riječima;

¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

¹⁷koja ostavlja prijatelja svoje mladosti i zaboravlja zavjet svoga Boga

¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

¹⁸jer joj kuća tone u smrt i njezini putovi vode mrtvima.

¹⁹None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

¹⁹Tko god zalazi k njoj ne vraća se nikad i ne nalazi više putove života.

²⁰that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

²⁰Zato idi putem čestitih i drži se staza pravedničkih!

²¹For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

²¹Jer samo će pravedni nastavati zemlju i bezazleni će ostati na njoj.

²²But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

²²A opake će zbrisati sa zemlje i bogohulnike iščupati iz nje.