1. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
2. And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
3. Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.
4. Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
5. Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6. Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies:
7. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
8. The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and waste your sweet words.
9. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11. For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
12. Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13. Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.
14. You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from sheol.
15. My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16. Yea, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
17. Let not your heart envy sinners: but be in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
18. For surely there is a future hope; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
19. Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
20. Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat: