When thou
sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently
what is before thee:
02 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a
man given to appetite.
03 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are
deceitful meat.
04 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own
wisdom.
05 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is
not? for riches certainly make themselves wings;
they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
06 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an
evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
07 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat
and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not
with thee.
08 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou
vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
09 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will
despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not
into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead
their cause with thee.
12 Apply thine 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 hell.
15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall
rejoice, even mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips
speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou
in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
18 For surely there is an end; and thine
expectation shall not be cut off.
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19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide
thine 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 shall clothe a man 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; also wisdom,
and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly
rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall
have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and
she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me thine 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 for a prey, and
increaseth the transgressors among men.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds
without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go
to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,
when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it
moveth itself 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 utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in
the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon
the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I
was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it
not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet
again.
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