How can a young person keep their life pure? By living 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.

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

Run away from the evil things that young people long for. Try hard to do what is right. Have faith, love and peace. Do these things together with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

So get rid of everything that is sinful. Get rid of the evil that is all around us. Don’t be too proud to accept the word that is planted in you. It can save you.Don’t just listen to the word. You fool yourselves if you do that. You must do what it says.Suppose someone listens to the word but doesn’t do what it says. Then they are like a person who looks at their face in a mirror.After looking at themselves, they leave. And right away they forget what they look like.But suppose someone takes a good look at the perfect law that gives freedom. And they keep looking at it. Suppose they don’t forget what they’ve heard, but they do what the law says. Then this person will be blessed in what they do.

Then they can advise the younger women to love their husbands and children.The younger women must control themselves and be pure. They must take good care of their homes. They must be kind. They must follow the lead of their husbands. Then no one will be able to speak evil things against God’s word.In the same way, help the young men to control themselves.

Don’t remember the sins I committed when I was young. Don’t remember how often I refused to obey you. Remember me because you love me. Lord, you are good.

“ Be strong and very brave. Make sure you obey the whole law my servant Moses gave you. Do not turn away from it to the right or the left. Then you will have success everywhere you go.

You have known the Holy Scriptures ever since you were a little child. They are able to teach you how to be saved by believing in Christ Jesus.God has breathed life into all Scripture. It is useful for teaching us what is true. It is useful for correcting our mistakes. It is useful for making our lives whole again. It is useful for training us to do what is right.By using Scripture, the servant of God can be completely prepared to do every good thing.

My children, come. Listen to me. I will teach you to have respect for the Lord.

I have hidden your word in my heart so that I won’t sin against you.

My son, if sinful men tempt you, don’t give in to them.

Blessed is the person who obeys the law of the Lord. They don’t follow the advice of evil people. They don’t make a habit of doing what sinners do. They don’t join those who make fun of the Lord and his law.Instead, the law of the Lord gives them joy. They think about his law day and night.That kind of person is like a tree that is planted near a stream of water. It always bears its fruit at the right time. Its leaves don’t dry up. Everything godly people do turns out well.

Lord, I really love your law! All day long I spend time thinking about it.Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, because your commands are always in my heart.I know more than all my teachers do, because I spend time thinking about your covenant laws.I understand more than the elders do, because I obey your rules.I’ve kept my feet from every path that sinners take so that I might obey your word.I haven’t turned away from your laws, because you yourself have taught me.Your words are very sweet to my taste! They are sweeter than honey to me.I gain understanding from your rules. So I hate every path that sinners take. NunYour word is like a lamp that shows me the way. It is like a light that guides me.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

The law of the Lord is perfect. It gives us new strength. The laws of the Lord can be trusted. They make childish people wise.The rules of the Lord are right. They give joy to our hearts. The commands of the Lord shine brightly. They give light to our minds.The law that brings respect for the Lord is pure. It lasts forever. The commands the Lord gives are true. All of them are completely right.They are more priceless than gold. They have greater value than huge amounts of pure gold. They are sweeter than honey that is taken from the honeycomb.Your servant is warned by them. When people obey them, they are greatly rewarded.

My son, listen. Accept what I say. Then you will live for many years.I instruct you in the way of wisdom. I lead you along straight paths.When you walk, nothing will slow you down. When you run, you won’t trip and fall.Hold on to my teaching and don’t let it go. Guard it well, because it is your life.Don’t take the path of evil people. Don’t live the way sinners do.Stay away from their path and don’t travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way.Sinners can’t rest until they do what is evil. They can’t sleep until they make someone sin.They do evil just as easily as they eat food. They hurt others as easily as they drink wine.

My sons, listen to a father’s teaching. Pay attention and gain understanding.

The commandments I give you today must be in your hearts.Make sure your children learn them. Talk about them when you are at home. Talk about them when you walk along the road. Speak about them when you go to bed. And speak about them when you get up.Write them down and tie them on your hands as a reminder. Also tie them on your foreheads.Write them on the doorframes of your houses. Also write them on your gates.

My son, keep your father’s command. Don’t turn away from your mother’s teaching.Always tie them on your heart. Put them around your neck.When you walk, they will guide you. When you sleep, they will watch over you. When you wake up, they will speak to you.Your father’s command is like a lamp. Your mother’s teaching is like a light. And whatever instructs and corrects you leads to life.It keeps you from your neighbor’s wife. It keeps you from the smooth talk of a woman who commits adultery.Don’t hunger in your heart after her beauty. Don’t let her eyes capture you.A prostitute can be bought for only a loaf of bread. But another man’s wife hunts your very life.You can’t shovel fire into your lap without burning your clothes.You can’t walk on hot coals without burning your feet.It’s the same for anyone who has sex with another man’s wife. Anyone who touches her will be punished.People don’t hate a thief who steals to fill his empty stomach.But when he is caught, he must pay seven times as much as he stole. It may even cost him everything he has.A man who commits adultery has no sense. Anyone who does it destroys himself.He will be beaten up and dishonored. His shame will never be wiped away.Jealousy stirs up a husband’s anger. He will show no mercy when he gets even.He won’t accept any payment. He won’t take any money, no matter how much he is offered.

They give understanding to childish people. They give knowledge and good sense to those who are young.

We won’t hide them from our children. We will tell them to those who live after us. We will tell them what the Lord has done that is worthy of praise. We will talk about his power and the wonderful things he has done.He gave laws to the people of Jacob. He gave Israel their law. He commanded our people who lived before us to teach his laws to their children.Then those born later would know his laws. Even their children yet to come would know them. And they in turn would tell their children.Then they would put their trust in God. They would not forget what he had done. They would obey his commands.They would not be like their people who lived long ago. Those people were stubborn. They refused to obey God. They turned away from him. Their spirits were not faithful to him.

You young people, be happy while you are still young. Let your heart be joyful while you are still strong. Do what your heart tells you to do. Go after what your eyes look at. But I want you to know that God will judge you for everything you do.So drive worry out of your heart. Get rid of all your troubles. Being young and strong doesn’t have any meaning.Remember your Creator. Remember him while you are still young. Think about him before your times of trouble come. The years will come when you will say,“ I don’t find any pleasure in them.”

You write down bitter things against me. You make me suffer for the sins I committed when I was young.

My sons, listen to me. Don’t turn away from what I say.Stay on a path far away from that evil woman. Don’t even go near the door of her house.If you do, you will lose your honor to other people. You will give your self- respect to someone who is mean.Strangers will use up all your wealth. Your hard work will make someone else rich.At the end of your life you will groan. Your skin and your body will be worn out.You will say,“ How I hated to take advice! How my heart refused to be corrected!I would not obey my teachers. I wouldn’t listen to those who taught me.I was soon in deep trouble. It happened right in front of the whole assembly of God’s people.”Drink water from your own well. Drink running water from your own spring.Should your springs pour out into the streets? Should your streams of water pour out in public places?No! Let them belong to you alone. Never share them with strangers.May your fountain be blessed. May the wife you married when you were young make you happy.She is like a loving doe, a graceful deer. May her breasts always satisfy you. May you always be captured by her love.My son, why be captured by another man’s wife? Why hug a woman who has gone astray?The Lord watches your ways. He studies all your paths.Sinners are trapped by their own evil acts. They are held tight by the ropes of their sins.They will die because they refused to be corrected. Their sins will capture them because they were very foolish.

“ Lord, you are the God of Israel. Keep the promises you made to my father David. Do it for him. He was your servant. You said to him,‘ You will always have a son from your family line to sit on Israel’s throne. He will sit in front of the Most Holy Room, where my own throne is. That will be true only if your children after you are careful in everything they do. They must live the way my law tells them to. That is the way you have lived.’

“ Not long after that, the younger son packed up all he had. Then he left for a country far away. There he wasted his money on wild living.

The time for enjoying good food would end. Then Job would make plans for his children to be made pure and“ clean.” He would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them. He would do it early in the morning. He would think,“ Perhaps my children have sinned. Maybe they have spoken evil things against God in their hearts.” That’s what Job always did for his children when he felt they had sinned.

Among those who were childish I saw a young man who had no sense.

When he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he must make for himself a copy of the law. He must write on a scroll the law that I am teaching you. He must copy it from the scroll of a priest, who is a Levite.