^{1 Ref} When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

^{2 Ref} And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

^{3 Ref} Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

^{4 Ref} Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

^{5 Ref} Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

^{6 Ref} Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

^{7 Ref} For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

^{9 Ref} Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

^{10 Ref} Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

^{11 Ref} For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

^{12 Ref} Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

^{13 Ref} Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

^{14 Ref} Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

^{15 Ref} My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

^{16 Ref} Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

^{17 Ref} Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

^{18 Ref} For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

^{19 Ref} Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

^{20 Ref} Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

^{21 Ref} For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

^{22 Ref} Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

^{23 Ref} Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

^{24 Ref} The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

^{25 Ref} Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

^{26 Ref} My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

^{27 Ref} For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

^{28 Ref} She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

^{29 Ref} Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

^{30 Ref} They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

^{31 Ref} Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

^{32 Ref} At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

^{33 Ref} Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

^{34 Ref} 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.

^{35 Ref} 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.