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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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