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

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

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;

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

²⁰ Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

²¹ For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

²³ Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

²⁴ For riches `are' not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

²⁵ Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains.

²⁶ Lambs `are' for thy clothing, And the price of the field `are' he-goats,

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

¹² and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to `me', and he divided to them the living.

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

¹⁵ and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

¹⁶ and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

¹⁷ `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

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