Whakatauki.
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Engari te ingoa pai e whiriwhiria rawatia i ngā taonga nui, me te manakohanga aroha i te hiriwa, i te kōura. 
Ka tūtataki te tangata taonga rāua ko te rawakore; ko Ihowā te kaihanga ō rātou katoa. 
Ko te tangata tūpato, ka kitea atu e ia te hē, ka huna i a ia; ko ngā kūware, haere tonu atu, mamae tonu atu. 
Ko te hua o te māhaki, ā, ko te wehi ki a Ihowā, he taonga, he hōnore, he ora. 
He tātarāmoa, he māhanga kei te ara o te whanokē; ko te tangata ia e tiaki ana i tōna wairua, ka matara atu i ēnā. 
Whakatupuria ake te tamaiti i te ara e haere ai ia, ā, ka kaumātua, e kore e mahue i a ia. 
E whakatakoto tikanga ana te tangata taonga mō ngā rawakore; ā, ko te tangata i te nama, hei pononga ia mā te tangata nāna i whakatārewa mai. 
Ko te kairui o te kino, ka kokoti i te hē; ā, ka kāhore noa iho te patu o tōna riri. 
Ko te kanohi ohaoha, ka manaakitia tērā; e hoatu ana hoki e ia tētahi wāhi o tāna taro mā te rawakore. 
Peia atu te tangata whakahī, ā, ka riro te ngangare; ka mutu anō hoki te totohe me te whakahāwea. 
Ko te tangata e matenui ana ki te ngākau mā, ko te kīngi he hoa mōna, mō te āhuareka o ōna ngutu. 
Mā ngā kanohi o Ihowā e tiaki te tangata whai mātauranga, e whakatakā ana hoki e ia ngā kupu a te tangata kōpeka. 
E mea ana te māngere, “He raiona kei waho; ka whakamatea ahau ki ngā huarahi!” 
He poka hōhonu te māngai o ngā wāhine kē; ka taka ki roto tā Ihowā tangata e whakarihariha ai. 
Paihere rawa te wairangi ki roto ki te ngākau o te tamaiti, otiia, mā te rākau o te whiu e pei kia matara atu i a ia. 
Ko te tangata e tūkino ana i te rawakore kia maha atu ai he taonga māna, me te tangata hoki e hoatu mea ana ki te tangata taonga, ka tutuki rāua ki te mūhore kau. 
Anga mai tōu taringa, whakarongo mai hoki ki ngā kupu a te hunga whakaaro nui, kia tahuri mai hoki tōu ngākau ki tōku mātauranga. 
He mea āhuareka hoki, mehemea ka puritia e koe i roto i tōu kōpū, ki te ū ngātahi rāua ki runga ki ōu ngutu. 
Kia okioki ai koe ki a Ihowā, koia i whakakitea ai e ahau aua mea ki a koe i tēnei rā – ki a koe nā anō. 
He teka ianei hira rawa ngā mea kua tuhituhia atu nei e ahau ki a koe, he kupu ako, he kupu mōhio; 
kia mōhio ai koe ki te tūturutanga o ngā kupu o te pono, kia whakahokia ai e koe he kupu pono ki te hunga e ngare ana i a koe? 
Kaua e pāhuatia te rawakore, nō te mea he rawakore ia, kaua hoki e whakatupuria kinotia te tangata iti i te kūwaha. 
Nō te mea ka tohea e Ihowā tā rātou tohe, ka pāhuatia anō hoki e ia te wairua o te hunga e pāhua ana i a rātou. 
Kaua e whakahoa ki te tangata pukuriri; kei haere tahi hoki koe i te tangata āritarita; 
kei ākona e koe ōna ara, ā, ka riro i a koe he māhanga mō tōu wairua. 
Kei uru koe ki roto ki te hunga papaki ringa, ki ngā kaiwhakakapi tūranga rānei mō te moni tārewa; 
ki te kāhore āu mea hei utu, hei aha i tangohia ai e ia tōu moenga i raro i a koe? 
Kaua e whakanekehia atu te rohe tawhito i whakatakotoria e ōu mātua. 
Kei te kite rānei koe i tētahi tangata e uaua ana ki tāna mahi? Ka tū ia ki te aroaro o ngā kīngi; e kore ia e tū ki te aroaro o ngā ware. 
