Take-out wisdom

Remove the imperative to get what you need,
And all you get is greed, all that grows are weeds.
Suffocate the purpose, drowning by the means;
User made the used, and the useful made king.
Nightmare turned dream, confused beyond belief,
Given all you have, but nothing will you receive,
Because this world has nothing to give
That you would want to be given,
When this life putters out
And all that's left is Heaven.
You cannot take it with you, but that's beside the fact that
Nothing here is worth taking; and even if it was you'd have to give it back.

So get for yourself what must be handed down,
Get those first things that come from the crown.
First, get that fear by which wisdom is first found,
Then go about growing wise so that justice abounds.
You need to learn much truth, the knowledge of God,
Get it in your youth so that evil you avoid.
Add in as much understanding as you can as a boy.
Grow in observance of the righteous around,
Walk the upright upward path and never return down.
Keep the commands that goad you the right way.
Tie them on your hands, and keep evil at bay.
Avoid loose-moral'd women, and don't run after them either.
That pleasure will be pain; they change like the weather.
And you'll die, buried alive in the grave you enter willfully,
Rejecting these words written for you carefully,
So determine your way prayerfully,
Hearing all of God's words, not just opening it sparingly.
If that's what you do, it says you're a fool for not hearing me.