16. For they sleep not, unless they have done evil; and their sheynah (sleep) is robbed, unless they cause some to fall.
17. For they eat the lechem of resha, and drink the yayin of chamasim (violences).
18. But the orach tzaddikim (path of the righteous) is as the bright light, that shineth brighter and brighter unto the full day.
19. The derech resha'im is as deep darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
20. Beni (my son), attend to my words; incline thine ozen unto my sayings.
21. Let them not depart from thine eyes; be shomer over them within thine lev.
22. For they are chayyim unto those that find them, and health to all their basar.
23. Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence; for out of it are the totze'ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life cf Mk 7:20-23).
24. Put away from thee a deceitful peh (mouth), and perverse sfatayim (lips) put far from thee.
25. Let thine eynayim look straight forward, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26. Ponder the ma'agal (path) of thy raglayim, and let all thy drakhim be firm.
27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy regel from rah [T.N. Everyone in life has two paths to choose from just as Moshiach Tzidkeinu spoke of two gates, a wide one crowded with traffic and leading to destruction, and another one found by few but leading to life and redemption--Mt 7:13-14].