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| 1. | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee; |
| 2. | and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. |
| 3. | Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food. |
| 4. | Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence: |
| 5. | wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens. |
| 6. | Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties. |
| 7. | For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee. |
| 8. | Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words. |
| 9. | Speak not in the ears of a foolish man, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. |
| 10. | Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
| 11. | for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee. |
| 12. | Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. |
| 13. | Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die: |
| 14. | thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol. |
| 15. | My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine; |
| 16. | and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things. |
| 17. | Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day; |
| 18. | for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off. |
| 19. | Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way. |
| 20. | Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh. |
| 21. | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags. |
| 22. | Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
| 23. | Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence. |
| 24. | The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him: |
| 25. | let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice. |
| 26. | My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. |
| 27. | For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| 28. | She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men. |
| 29. | Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes? |
| 30. | -- They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine. |
| 31. | Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly: |
| 32. | at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
| 33. | Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things; |
| 34. | and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast: |
| 35. | -- ``They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.`` |