¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain `persons' is void of understanding.

¹⁹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain `persons' shall have poverty enough.

¹¹ and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

¹² that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

²³ In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips `tendeth' only to penury.

² For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

⁴ Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But much increase is by the strength of the ox.

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

⁸ neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

⁶ Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

¹⁰ For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

²⁷ And `there will be' goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.

⁴ And they gave him threescore and ten `pieces' of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

¹³ We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;

¹⁴ Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:

¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

¹⁸ And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.

¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

³² He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

¹³ The foolish woman is clamorous; `She is' simple, and knoweth nothing.

¹⁶ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

²⁰ Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

⁸ They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

²³ Much food `is in' the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.