When thou sittest
to eat
with a ruler,
consider
diligently
what is before
thee:
And put
a knife
to thy throat,
if thou be a man given
to appetite.
Be not desirous
of his dainties:
for they are deceitful
meat.
Labour
not to be rich:
cease
from thine own wisdom.
Wilt thou set
thine eyes
upon that which is not? for riches certainly
make
themselves wings;
they fly away
as an eagle
toward heaven.
nowhere
οὐδαμοῦ
oudamou
Eat
thou not the bread
of him that hath an evil
eye,
neither desire
thou his dainty meats:
For as he thinketh
in his heart,
so is he: Eat
and drink,
saith
he to thee; but his heart
is not with thee.
The morsel
which thou hast eaten
shalt thou vomit up,
and lose
thy sweet
words.
Speak
not in the ears
of a fool:
for he will despise
the wisdom
of thy words.
Remove
not the old
landmark;
and enter
not into the fields
of the fatherless:
For their redeemer
is mighty;
he shall plead
their cause
with thee.
Apply
thine heart
unto instruction,
and thine ears
to the words
of knowledge.
Withhold
not correction
from the child:
for if thou beatest
him with the rod,
he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat
him with the rod,
and shalt deliver
his soul
from hell.
My son,
if thine heart
be wise,
my heart
shall rejoice,
even mine.
Yea, my reins
shall rejoice,
when thy lips
speak
right things.
Let not thine heart
envy
sinners:
but be thou in the fear
of the LORD
all the day
long.
For surely there is
an end;
and thine expectation
shall not be cut off.
Hear
thou, my son,
and be wise,
and guide
thine heart
in the way.
Be not among winebibbers;
among riotous eaters
of flesh:
For the drunkard
and the glutton
shall come to poverty:
and drowsiness
shall clothe
a man with rags.
Hearken
unto thy father
that begat
thee, and despise
not thy mother
when she is old.
Buy
the truth,
and sell
it not; also wisdom,
and instruction,
and understanding.
The father
of the righteous
shall greatly
rejoice:
and he that begetteth
a wise
child shall have joy
of him.
Thy father
and thy mother
shall be glad,
and she that bare
thee shall rejoice.
My son,
give
me thine heart,
and let thine eyes
observe
my ways.
For a whore
is a deep
ditch;
and a strange woman
is a narrow
pit.
She also lieth in wait
as for a prey,
and increaseth
the transgressors
among men.
Who hath woe?
who hath sorrow?
who hath contentions?
who hath babbling?
who hath wounds
without cause?
who hath redness
of eyes?
unpleasantness
ἀηδίαι
aēdiai
place where people assembled to talk and hear news
λέσχαι
leschai
pale
πέλειοι
peleioi
They that tarry long
at the wine;
they that go
to seek
mixed wine.
Look
not thou upon the wine
when it is red,
when it giveth
his colour
in the cup,
when it moveth
itself aright.
walking about
περιπάτοις
peripatois
outdo
ὑπέρου
hyperou
At the last
it biteth
like a serpent,
and stingeth
like an adder.
Thine eyes
shall behold
strange women,
and thine heart
shall utter
perverse things.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down
in the midst
of the sea,
or as he that lieth
upon the top
of a mast.
They have stricken
me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;
they have beaten
me, and I felt
it not: when shall I awake?
I will seek
it yet
again.
toil
ἐπόνεσα
eponesa
aware
ᾔδειν
ēdein
