^[1]  When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;

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^[2]  And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

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^[3]  Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

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^[4]  Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

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^[5]  Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? Forrichescertainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

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^[6]  Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

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^[7]  For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

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^[8]  The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

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^[9]  Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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^[10]  Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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^[11]  For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.

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^[12]  Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

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^[13]  Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

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^[14]  Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

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^[15]  My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

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^[16]  Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

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^[17]  Let not thy heart envy sinners; Butbe thouin the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

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^[18]  For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.

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^[19]  Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.

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^[20]  Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

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^[21]  For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothea manwith rags.

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^[22]  Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

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^[23]  Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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^[24]  The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

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^[25]  Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

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^[26]  My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

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^[27]  For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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^[28]  Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

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^[29]  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

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^[30]  They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.

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^[31]  Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:

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^[32]  At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

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^[33]  Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

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^[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.

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^[35]  They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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