1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,Consider diligently 1him that is before thee;22And put a knife to thy throat,If thou be a man given to appetite.3Be not desirous of his dainties;Seeing they are deceitful food.4Weary not thyself to be rich;Cease 3from thine own wisdom.54Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?For riches certainly make themselves wings,Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,Neither desire thou his dainties:7For 5as he thinketh within himself, so is he:Eat and drink, saith he to thee;But his heart is not with thee.8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,And lose thy sweet words.9Speak not in the hearing of a fool;For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.10Remove not the ancient landmark;And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:11For their Redeemer is strong;He will plead their cause against thee.12Apply thy heart unto 6instruction,And thine ears to the words of knowledge.13Withhold not correction from the child;For 7if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.14Thou shalt beat him with the rod,And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.15My son, if thy heart be wise,My heart will be glad, even mine:16Yea, my 8heart will rejoice,When thy lips speak right things.17Let not thy heart envy sinners;But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:18For surely there is a 9reward;And thy hope shall not be cut off.19Hear thou, my son, and be wise,And guide thy heart in the way.20Be not among winebibbers,Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,And despise not thy mother when she is old.23Buy the truth, and sell it not;Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.25Let thy father and thy mother be glad,And let her that bare thee rejoice.26My son, give me thy heart;And let thine eyes 10delight in my ways.27For a harlot is a deep ditch;And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.28Yea, she lieth in wait 11as a robber,And increaseth the treacherous among men.29Who hath 12woe? who hath 13sorrow? who hath contentions?Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause?Who hath 14redness of eyes?30They that tarry long at the wine;They that go to 15seek out mixed wine.31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,When it sparkleth in the cup,When it 16goeth down smoothly:32At the last it biteth like a serpent,And stingeth like an adder.33Thine eyes shall behold 17strange things,And thy heart shall utter perverse things.34Yea, 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.35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt;They have beaten me, and I felt it not:When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.