W<\/span>hen thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n