- 1. When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee.
- 2. And put a knife to thy throate, if thou be a man giuen to appetite.
- 3. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitfull meate.
- 4. Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome.
- 5. Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselues wings, they fly away as an Eagle toward heauen.
- 6. Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euill eye, neither desire thou his dainty meates.
- 7. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eate, and drinke, sayth he to thee, but his heart is not with thee.
- 8. The morsell which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomite vp, and loose thy sweete words.
- 9. Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisedome of thy words.
- 10. Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse.
- 11. For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
- 12. Apply thine heart vnto instruction, and thine eares 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 beate him with the rod, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
- 15. My sonne, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall reioyce, euen mine.
- 16. Yea my reines shall reioyce, when thy lippes speake right things.
- 17. Let not thine heart enuy sinners, but be thou in the feare of the Lord all the day long.
- 18. For surely there is an end, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
- 19. Heare thou, my sonne, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
- 20. Be not amongst wine-bibbers; amongst riotous eaters of flesh.
- 21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges.
- 22. Hearken vnto thy father that begate thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- 23. Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding.
- 24. The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wise child, shall haue ioy of him.
- 25. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
- 26. My sonne, giue me thine heart, and let thine eyes obserue my wayes.
- 27. For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- 28. She also lyeth in wait as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours among men.
- 29. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath rednesse of eyes?
- 30. They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine.
- 31. Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is red, when it giueth his colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe aright.
- 32. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- 33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall vtter peruerse things.
- 34. Yea thou shalt be as he that lyeth downe in the midst of the sea, or as he that lyeth vpon the top of a mast.
- 35. They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe.
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