1. Of these things be not ashamed, And accept no man’s person to sin thereby:
2. Of the law of the Most High, and his covenant; And of judgement to do justice to the ungodly;
3. Of reckoning with a partner and with travellers; And of a gift from the heritage of friends;
4. Of exactness of balance and weights; And of getting much or little;
5. Of indifferent selling of merchants; And of much correction of children; And of making the side of an evil servant to bleed.
6. Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; And where many hands are, shut you close.
7. Whatsoever you handest over, let it be by number and weight; And in giving and receiving let all be in writing.
8. Be not ashamed to instruct the unwise and foolish, And one of extreme old age that contends with those that are young; And so shall you be well instructed indeed, And approved in the sight of every man living.