| 1 | When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; |
| 2 | put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. |
| 3 | Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. |
| 4 | Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. |
| 5 | Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. |
| 6 | Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies: |
| 7 | for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. |
| 8 | The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words. |
| 9 | Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. |
| 10 | Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: |
| 11 | for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you. |
| 12 | Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. |
| 13 | Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. |
| 14 | Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol . |
| 15 | My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine: |
| 16 | yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right. |
| 17 | Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long. |
| 18 | Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off. |
| 19 | Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! |
| 20 | Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: |
| 21 | for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags. |
| 22 | Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old. |
| 23 | Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. |
| 24 | The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. |
| 25 | Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice! |
| 26 | My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. |
| 27 | For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. |
| 28 | Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. |
| 29 | Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? |
| 30 | Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine. |
| 31 | Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. |
| 32 | In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. |
| 33 | Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things. |
| 34 | Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging: |
| 35 | "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another." |
