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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 gluttony.
if you are given to gluttony.
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Do not crave his delicacies,
for that food is deceptive.
for that food is deceptive.
Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
Saying 8
Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
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.
Saying 9
Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
do not crave his delicacies;
Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
do not crave his delicacies;
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 little you have eaten
and will have wasted your compliments.
and will have wasted your compliments.
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
Saying 10
Do not speak to fools,
for they will scorn your prudent words.
Do not speak to fools,
for they will scorn your prudent words.
Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Saying 11
Do not move an ancient boundary stone
or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Do not move an ancient boundary stone
or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
for their Defender is strong;
he will take up their case against you.
he will take up their case against you.
for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
Saying 12
Apply your heart to instruction
and your ears to words of knowledge.
Apply your heart to instruction
and your ears to words of knowledge.
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Saying 13
Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
Punish them with the rod
and save them from death.
and save them from death.
thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
Saying 14
My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed;
My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed;
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
my inmost being will rejoice
when your lips speak what is right.
when your lips speak what is right.
and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
Saying 15
Do not let your heart envy sinners,
but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.
Do not let your heart envy sinners,
but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.
Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
There is surely a future hope for you,
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.
Saying 16
Listen, my son, and be wise,
and set your heart on the right path:
Listen, my son, and be wise,
and set your heart on the right path:
Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
Do not join those who drink too much wine
or gorge themselves on meat,
or gorge themselves on meat,
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
for drunkards and gluttons become poor,
and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
Saying 17
Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Listen to your father, who gave you life,
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 the truth and do not sell it —
wisdom, instruction and insight as well.
wisdom, instruction and insight as well.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:
May your father and mother rejoice;
may she who gave you birth be joyful!
may she who gave you birth be joyful!
let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
Saying 18
My son, give me your heart
and let your eyes delight in my ways,
My son, give me your heart
and let your eyes delight in my ways,
My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,
and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Like a bandit she lies in wait
and multiplies the unfaithful among men.
and multiplies the unfaithful among men.
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Saying 19
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
Those who linger over wine,
who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
-- They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it goes down smoothly!
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it 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 snake
and poisons like a viper.
and poisons like a viper.
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Your eyes will see strange sights,
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying on top of the rigging.
lying on top of the rigging.
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: