¹ Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

³ and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

⁴ I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

⁵ Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

⁶ therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

⁷ Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

⁸ I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.

⁹ I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁰ Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:

¹¹ therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.

¹² You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour.

¹³ You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

¹⁴ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

¹⁵ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹ My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

² for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

³ Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

⁵ Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

⁶ In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

⁷ Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

⁸ It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

⁹ Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

¹⁰ so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

¹¹ My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

¹² for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

¹³ Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

¹⁴ For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

¹⁵ She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

¹⁹ By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

²⁰ By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

²¹ My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

²² so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

²³ Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't stumble.

²⁴ When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

²⁵ Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

²⁶ for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

²⁷ Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

²⁸ Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

²⁹ Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

³⁰ Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

³¹ Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

³² For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

³³ Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

³⁴ Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

³⁵ The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.