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[1]When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,
[2]And put the knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to the appetite.
[3]Be not desirous of his dainty meats: for it is a deceivable meat.
[4]Travail not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdom.
[5]Wilt thou cast thine eyes upon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heaven.
[6]Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire his dainty meats.
[7]For as though he thought it in his heart, so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not with thee.
[8]Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweet words.
[9]Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
[10]Remove not the ancient bounds, and enter not into the fields of the fatherless.
[11]For he that redeemeth them, is mighty: he will defend their cause against thee.
[12]Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
[13]Withhold not correction from the child: if thou smite him with the rod, he shall not die.
[14]Thou shalt smite him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
[15]My son, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall rejoice and I also.
[16]And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak righteous things.
[17]Let not thine heart be envious against sinners: but let it be in the fear of the Lord continually.
[18]For surely there is an end, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
[19]O thou my son, hear, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
[20]Keep not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
[21]For the drunkard and the glutton shall be poor, and the sleeper shall be clothed with rags.
[22]Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
[23]Buy the truth, but sell it not: likewise 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 bear thee shall rejoice.
[26]My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.
[27]For a whore is as a deep ditch, and a strange woman is as a narrow pit.
[28]Also she lieth in wait as for a prey, and she increaseth the transgressors among men.
[29]To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom is strife? To whom is murmuring? To whom are wounds without cause? And to whom is the redness of the eyes?
[30]Even to them that tarry long at the wine, to them that go, and seek mixed wine.
[31]Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red, and when it showeth his color in the cup, or goeth down pleasantly.
[32]In the end thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrice.
[33]Thine eyes shall look upon strange women, and thine heart shall speak lewd things.
[34]And thou shalt be as one that sleepeth in the midst of the sea, and as he that sleepeth in the top of the mast.
[35]They have stricken me, shalt thou say, but I was not sick: they have beaten me, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seek it yet still.
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