¹¹ Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

¹⁹ Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with' poverty.

¹¹ and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

¹² that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

²³ In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is' only to want.

² The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.

⁴ Without oxen a stall `is' clean, And great `is' the increase by the power of the ox.

²⁸ whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

⁸ nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

⁶ Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'

¹⁰ for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

²⁷ And a sufficiency of goats' milk `is' for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!

⁴ and they give to him seventy silverings out of the house of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hireth with them men, vain and unstable, and they go after him;

⁴ I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

¹² We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,

¹³ Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,

¹⁴ Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'

¹⁵ My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

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

¹⁷ Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

¹⁹ So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

³² He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

¹³ A foolish woman `is' noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

¹⁶ `Who `is' simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,

²⁰ Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

⁸ Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

²³ Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.