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Consider Diligently what is Before You
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
and put a knife to your throat
if you are given to appetite.
if you are given to appetite.
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Do not desire his delicacies,
for they are deceptive food.
for they are deceptive food.
Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
be discerning enough to desist.
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
for suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
for suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
and waste your pleasant words.
and waste your pleasant words.
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
for he will despise the good sense of your words.
for he will despise the good sense of your words.
Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Do not move an ancient landmark
or enter the fields of the fatherless,
or enter the fields of the fatherless,
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
for their Redeemer is strong;
he will plead their cause against you.
he will plead their cause against you.
for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
Apply your heart to instruction
and your ear to words of knowledge.
and your ear to words of knowledge.
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
If you strike him with the rod,
you will save his soul from Sheol.
you will save his soul from Sheol.
thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
My son, if your heart is wise,
my heart too will be glad.
my heart too will be glad.
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
Let not your heart envy sinners,
but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.
but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.
Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
Surely there is a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.
and your hope will not be cut off.
for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
Hear, my son, and be wise,
and direct your heart in the way.
and direct your heart in the way.
Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
and slumber will clothe them with rags.
and slumber will clothe them with rags.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
Listen to your father who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Buy truth, and do not sell it;
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:
Let your father and mother be glad;
let her who bore you rejoice.
let her who bore you rejoice.
let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
She lies in wait like a robber
and increases the traitors among mankind.
and increases the traitors among mankind.
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
Those who tarry long over wine;
those who go to try mixed wine.
those who go to try mixed wine.
-- They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
In the end it bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
and stings like an adder.
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Your eyes will see strange things,
and your heart utter perverse things.
and your heart utter perverse things.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast: