11. Save those who are drawn away toward mavet, and hold back those stumbling toward slaughter.
12. If thou sayest, See, we knew it not, doth not He that weigheth the levavot consider it? And He that is guard over thy nefesh, doth not He know it? And shall not He render to every adam according to his works?
13. Beni (my son), eat thou devash, because it is tov; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste;
14. So shall the knowledge of chochmah be unto thy nefesh; when thou hast found it, then there shall be an acharit (latter end, future), and thy tikvah (hope) shall not be cut off.
15. Lay not in wait, O rasha, against the naveh (dwelling) of the tzaddik; assault not his resting place;
16. For a tzaddik falleth sheva (seven times), and riseth up again, but the resha'im are overthrown in ra'ah.