- 1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which `is' before thee,
- 2. And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou `art' a man of appetite.
- 3. Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it `is' lying food.
- 4. Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
- 5. For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
- 6. Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,
- 7. For as he hath thought in his soul, so `is' he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart `is' not with thee.
- 8. Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that `are' sweet.
- 9. In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
- 10. Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
- 11. For their Redeemer `is' strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
- 12. Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
- 13. Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
- 14. Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.
- 15. My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
- 16. And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
- 17. Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
- 18. For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
- 19. Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
- 20. Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
- 21. For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
- 22. Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
- 23. Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
- 24. The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.
- 25. Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
- 26. Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.
- 27. For a harlot `is' a deep ditch, And a strange woman `is' a strait pit.
- 28. She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
- 29. Who hath wo? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
- 30. Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
- 31. See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
- 32. Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
- 33. Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
- 34. And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.
- 35. `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'
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