When thou sittest to eat
with a ruler
, consider
diligently
what is before
thee:
And put a knife
to thy throat
, if thou be a man given
to appetite
.
Be not desirous of his dainties
: for they are deceitful
meat
.
Labour not to be rich
: cease
from thine own wisdom
.
Wilt thou set thine eyes
upon that which is not? for riches certainly
make
themselves wings
; they fly away
as an eagle
toward heaven
.
Eat thou not the bread
of him that hath an evil
eye
, neither desire
thou his dainty meats
:
For as he thinketh in his heart
, so is he: Eat
and drink
, saith
he to thee; but his heart
is not with thee.
The morsel which thou hast eaten
shalt thou vomit up
, and lose
thy sweet
words
.
Speak not in the ears
of a fool
: for he will despise
the wisdom
of thy words
.
Remove not the old
landmark
; and enter
not into the fields
of the fatherless
:
For their redeemer is mighty
; he shall plead
their cause
with thee.
Apply thine heart
unto instruction
, and thine ears
to the words
of knowledge
.
Withhold not correction
from the child
: for if thou beatest
him with the rod
, he shall not die
.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod
, and shalt deliver
his soul
from hell
.
My son, if thine heart
be wise
, my heart
shall rejoice
, even mine
.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice
, when thy lips
speak
right things
.
Let not thine heart envy
sinners
: but be thou in the fear
of the LORD
all the day
long.
For surely there is an end
; and thine expectation
shall not be cut off
.
Hear thou, my son
, and be wise
, and guide
thine heart
in the way
.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters
of flesh
:
For the drunkard and the glutton
shall come to poverty
: and drowsiness
shall clothe
a man with rags
.
Hearken unto thy father
that begat
thee, and despise
not thy mother
when she is old
.
Buy the truth
, and sell
it not; also wisdom
, and instruction
, and understanding
.
The father of the righteous
shall greatly
rejoice
: and he that begetteth
a wise
child shall have joy
of him.
Thy father and thy mother
shall be glad
, and she that bare
thee shall rejoice
.
My son, give
me thine heart
, and let thine eyes
observe
my ways
.
For a whore is a deep
ditch
; and a strange woman
is a narrow
pit
.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey
, and increaseth
the transgressors
among men
.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow
? who hath contentions
? who hath babbling
? who hath wounds
without cause
? who hath redness
of eyes
?
They that tarry long at the wine
; they that go
to seek
mixed wine
.
Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red
, when it giveth
his colour
in the cup
, when it moveth
itself aright
.
At the last it biteth
like a serpent
, and stingeth
like an adder
.
Thine eyes shall behold
strange women
, and thine heart
shall utter
perverse things
.
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
.
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.