Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.
Turn aside from me, ye evil-doers, And I keep the commands of my God.
Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,
A traveller to life `is' he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.
Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.
For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
And My servant David `is' king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.
`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;'
wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,
And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,