8. Grasp her, and she will exalt you. You will be glorified by her, when you have embraced her.
9. She will bestow upon your head an increase in graces, and she will protect you with a noble crown.
10. Listen, my son, and accept my words, so that years of life may be multiplied for you.
11. I will demonstrate to you the way of wisdom. I will lead you along the paths of equity.
12. When you have entered by these, your steps will not be constrained, and when running, you will have no obstacle.
13. Take hold of discipline. Do not dismiss it. Guard it, for it is your life.
14. Do not delight in the paths of the impious, nor permit the way of evil-doers to please you.
15. Take flight from it. Do not pass close to it. Turn away and abandon it.
16. For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil. And their sleep is quickly taken away from them, unless they have overthrown.
17. They eat the bread of impiety, and they drink the wine of iniquity.
18. But the path of the just is like a shining light: it advances and increases, even to the day of completion.
19. The way of the impious is darkened. They do not know where they may fall.