if ¹  you have been ensnared ²  by the words you have uttered, ³  and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

to show you true and reliable words, ¹  so that you may give accurate answers ²  to those who sent you?

Naphtali is a free running doe, ¹  he speaks delightful words. ² 

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat ¹  the words of a despairing man as wind?

To ¹  learn ²  wisdom ³  and moral instruction, ⁴  and to discern ⁵  wise counsel. ⁶ 

to deliver you ¹  from the adulteress, ²  from the sexually loose woman ³  who speaks flattering ⁴  words; ⁵ 

My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively ¹  to my sayings.

My child, ²  keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping. ³ 

so that they may keep you ¹  from the adulterous ²  woman, from the loose woman ³  who flatters you ⁴  with her words. ⁵ 

Apply ¹  your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

How painful ¹  are honest words! But ²  what does your reproof ³  prove? ⁴ 

“How long will you speak these things, ¹  seeing ²  that the words of your mouth are like a great ³  wind? ⁴ 

Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment ¹  from God.”

Accept instruction ¹  from his mouth and store up his words ²  in your heart.

I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion. ¹ 

Job ¹  has not directed ²  his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments. ³ 

My words come from the uprightness of my heart, ¹  and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely. ² 

O God, listen to my prayer! Pay attention to what I say! ¹ 

because they had rebelled against God’s commands, ¹  and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king. ²