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¹ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you,² and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite.³ Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies.

⁴ Do not labor to be rich, cease from your own understanding.⁵ Will your eyes fly on it? And it is not! For surely it makes wings for itself, it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

⁶ Do not eat the bread of one having an evil eye, and do not desire his delicacies,⁷ for as he reasons in his heart, so is he! He says to you, Eat and drink, but his heart is not with you.⁸ You shall vomit the bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant words.

⁹ Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

¹⁰ Do not move the old landmark, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless,¹¹ for their Redeemer is mighty, He will contend for their cause with you.

¹² Bring your heart in for instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.¹³ Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.¹⁴ You shall strike him with the rod, and you shall deliver him from Sheol.¹⁵ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.¹⁶ And my reins shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.

¹⁷ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but only be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.¹⁸ For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope shall not be cut off.

¹⁹ My son, hear, you, and be wise, and advance your heart in the way.²⁰ Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with gluttons, flesh to themselves,²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe one with rags.²² Listen to your father, this one fathered you, and do not despise your 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 who fathers a wise one shall even be glad in him.²⁵ Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.²⁶ My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes watch my ways.²⁷ For a harlot is a deep pit, and a strange woman is a narrow well.²⁸ Surely she lies in wait, as for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.

²⁹ Who has woe, who sorrow? Who has contentions, who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of eyes?³⁰ Those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.³¹ Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly,³² at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like an adder.³³ Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;³⁴ yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast,³⁵ saying , They struck me! I was not sick! They beat me, yet I did not know. When I awaken I will add to it , I will still seek it.