5. When your eyes fly to wealthit is gone; it grows wingslike an eagle and flies heavenward.
6. Don’t eat food with stingy people;don’t long for their delicacies,
7. because they are like a hair in the throat.They say to you, "Eat and drink!"but they don’t mean it.
8. You will eat scraps and vomit them out.You will waste your pleasant words.
9. Don’t speak in the ears of fools,for they will scorn your insightful words.
10. Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker;don’t invade the fields of orphans,
11. for their redeemer is strong.He will bring charges against you.
12. Bring your mind to instruction,your ear to knowledgeable sayings.
13. Don’t withhold instruction from children;if you strike them with a rod, they won’t die.
14. Strike them with a rod,and you will save their lives from the grave.