1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, thou shalt consider well, what is before thee;
2And shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art:
3Do not crave his dainties, for, the same, are deceitful food.
4Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
5Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.
6Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties;
7For, just as he hath thought in his own mind, so, he is: Eat and drink! he may say to thee, but, his heart, is not with thee.
8As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.
9In the ears of a dullard, do not speak, for he will despise the good sense of thy words.
10Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
11For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
12Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.
13Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest him with the rod, he shall not die:
14Thou, with the rod, shalt smite him, and, his soul from hades, shalt thou deliver.
15My son! if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16So shall my reins exult, when thy lips speak the things that are right.
17Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long;
18For surely there is a future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.
19Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.
20Do not be among them who tipple with wine,—among them who are gluttons;
21For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!
22Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
23Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.
24Greatly shall exult, the father of a righteous man, and, he that begetteth a wise son, shall rejoice in him:
25Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.
26Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways;
27For, a deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown;
28Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
29Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness of eyes?
30They who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine.
31Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth down smoothly.
32Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
33Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:
34So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea,—or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear:
35They smote me—I felt no pain, They struck me down—I noticed it not,—When shall I wake up? I will go on, I will seek it, again!