[ Beth] How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

少年人用什么洁净他的行为呢？是要遵行你的话！

青年要如何保持纯洁呢？是要遵行你的话！

青年要如何保持纯洁呢？是要遵行你的话！

青年如何保持纯洁呢？就是要遵守你的话。

少年人用什么洁净自己的行为呢？就是要遵守你的话。

少年人如何保持自己的行为纯洁呢？就是要遵守你的话语！

少年人用甚麼潔淨他的行為呢？是要遵行你的話！

青年要如何保持純潔呢？是要遵行你的話！

青年要如何保持純潔呢？是要遵行你的話！

青年如何保持純潔呢？就是要遵守你的話。

少年人用甚麼潔淨自己的行為呢？就是要遵守你的話。

少年人用甚麼使他的行徑純潔呢？就是要照你的話而謹慎着，

少年人如何保持自己的行為純潔呢？就是要遵守你的話語！

少者何以潔其品行、惟依爾言自慎兮、

人自幼稚、欲飭其行為、當如之何、惟謹守爾道、斯乃可兮、

年少者如何方能自潔品行、總須自守、遵依主言、

嗟爾青年。何以潔身。其惟立志。聖訓是遵。

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.

How can a young person keep their life pure? By living according to your word.

How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping your word.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word.

How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.

Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping Your word.

BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed[ thereto] according to thy word.

How can a young person maintain a pure life? By guarding it according to your instructions!

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

[ Men] Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.[ Nun] Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—

We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say,“ I have no pleasure in them”;

For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,and you say,“ How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.

Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying,‘ You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.

And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said,“ It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

“ And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.