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.