6. Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
7. Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
8. The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
9. Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
10. Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
11. For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
12. Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
13. Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
15. My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
16. And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
17. Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
18. Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
19. Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
20. Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
21. Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
22. Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23. Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.