1When you sit to eat with a ruler,
2put a knife to your throat
3Don’t be desirous of his dainties,
4Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
6Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
8You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten
9Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
10Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.
11for their Defender is strong.
12Apply your heart to instruction,
13Don’t withhold correction from a child.
14Punish him with the rod,
15My son, if your heart is wise,
16Yes, my heart will rejoice
17Don’t let your heart envy sinners,
18Indeed surely there is a future hope,
19Listen, my son, and be wise,
20Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine,
21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;
22Listen to your father who gave you life,
23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
24The father of the righteous has great joy.
25Let your father and your mother be glad!
26My son, give me your heart;
27For a prostitute is a deep pit;
28Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,
29Who has woe?
30Those who stay long at the wine;
31Don’t look at the wine when it is red,
32In the end, it bites like a snake,
33Your eyes will see strange things,
34Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea,
35“They hit me, and I was not hurt!