- 1. ¶ WHEN you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is set before you,
- 2. That you may not put poison in your mouth. And if you are a man given to excessive appetite,
- 3. Be not desirous of his food; for his bread is bread of deceit.
- 4. ¶ Do not quarrel with a rich man; but keep away from him wisely.
- 5. For if you should fix your eye on him, you cannot see him; for he makes for himself wings like an eagle and flies away toward the sky.
- 6. ¶ Do not eat with a hypocrite, neither desire his food;
- 7. For he is like him that swallows pitch; in like manner you will eat and drink with him, but his heart is not with you.
- 8. The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will lose your sweet words.
- 9. ¶ Do not speak in the presence of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- 10. ¶ Do not remove the old landmark; nor enter into the field of the fatherless;
- 11. For their saviour is mighty; he will plead their cause with you.
- 12. ¶ Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
- 13. Do not withhold chastisement from a child; for if you beat him, he will not die.
- 14. For when you beat him with the rod, you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
- 15. My son, if your heart be wise, my heart also will rejoice.
- 16. Yea, my heart shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
- 17. ¶ Let not your heart envy sinners; but revere the LORD all the day long.
- 18. For surely you will have a future; and your hope shall not be cut off.
- 19. ¶ Hear, my son, and be wise, and fasten my counsel in your heart.
- 20. Be not drunk with wine; and be not a gluttonous eater of meat:
- 21. For the drunkard and the gluttonous shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- 22. Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- 23. Buy the truth, and do not sell wisdom; also buy understanding and instruction.
- 24. The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice; and he who begets a wise child shall be glad.
- 25. Your father and your mother shall rejoice in you; and the one who bore you shall be happy.
- 26. My son. give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
- 27. For a harlot is a deep pit; and a strange woman is a narrow well.
- 28. She destroys men suddenly, and increases iniquity among men.
- 29. ¶ Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has contentions? Who has hardships? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
- 30. Those who tarry long over the wine; and who search for a place of drinking. Be not drunken with wine, but converse with righteous men; walk and talk with them.
- 31. Do not look on the wine when it is red in the cup, but meditate on righteousness.
- 32. For at the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
- 33. When your eyes behold a strange woman, then your heart shall utter perverse things.
- 34. Yea, you shall be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as a sailor in a tempest.
- 35. They have beaten me, you shall say, but I did not suffer, they have mocked me, but I did not know it; when I shall awake sober, I will go and seek it yet again.
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