1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul
15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the
18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 23:21
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction,
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee
26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they