1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:⇆ compare2And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.⇆ compare3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.⇆ compare4Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.⇆ compare5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.⇆ compare6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:⇆ compare7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.⇆ compare8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.⇆ compare9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.⇆ compare10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:⇆ compare11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.⇆ compare12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.⇆ compare13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.⇆ compare14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.⇆ compare15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.⇆ compare16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.⇆ compare17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.⇆ compare18For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.⇆ compare19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.⇆ compare20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:⇆ compare21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.⇆ compare22Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.⇆ compare23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.⇆ compare24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.⇆ compare25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.⇆ compare26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.⇆ compare27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.⇆ compare28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.⇆ compare29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?⇆ compare30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.⇆ compare31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.⇆ compare32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.⇆ compare33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.⇆ compare34Yea, 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.⇆ compare35They 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.⇆ compare