CLV(i)
1 In case you sit to dine with a ruler, You should understand, yea understand who is before you,
2 And place a knife-point to your gullet If you are a person of soulish appetite.
3 Do not yearn for his tasties, For that is bread of lies."
4 Do not weary yourself in order to become rich; In your understanding forbear.
5 While your eyes are on it, does it fly away and is not? Indeed riches make wings for themselves And fly away to the heavens like a vulture."
6 Do not dine on the bread of one having a stingy eye, And do not yearn for his tasties,
7 For as one who calculates within his soul, so is he; Eat and drink, he says to you, Yet his heart is by no means with you."
8 Your morsel you have eaten, you shall vomit it up, And ruin your pleasant words."
9 Do not speak into the ears of the stupid man, For he shall despise the intelligence of your declarations."
10 Do not move away the boundary marker of the widow, And into the fields of the orphans do not enter,
11 For their Redeemer is steadfast; He Himself shall contend their contention against you.
12 Do bring your heart to admonition And your ear to the sayings of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from the youth, For should you smite him with the club he shall not die."
14 You shall smite him with the club And so rescue his soul from the unseen.
15 My son, if your heart is wise, My heart shall rejoice, even I;"
16 My kidneys shall be joyous When your lips speak upright words.
17 Let not your heart be jealous of sinners, But rather be zealous for the fear of Yahweh all the day,
18 For then you have a hereafter, And your expectation shall not be cut off."
19 Hearken now, my son, and be wise, And make your heart progress in the way."
20 Do not be among wine carousers, Among those who are gluttonous on flesh for themselves."
21 For the carouser and the gluttonous man shall become destitute, And slumber shall clothe one in tatters."
22 Hearken to your father, this one who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old."
23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Wisdom and discipline and understanding."
24 The father of a righteous man shall exult, yea unto exultation; He who begets a wise man shall rejoice in him;"
25 Your father and your mother shall rejoice; She who bore you shall exult.
26 My son, do give your heart to me, And let your eyes hold my ways dear."
27 For the prostitute is a deep pit, And the foreign woman is a narrow well."
28 Indeed she waits in ambush like an abductor, And she adds to the treacherous ones among mankind."
29 Who has woe? who has uneasiness? who has quarrels? Who has deep concerns? who has gratuitous injuries? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 They have who delay over wine, Who come to investigate a blend."
31 Do not stare at wine when it is red, When it casts its sparkle in the cup and goes down evenly."
32 Its aftereffect shall bite like a serpent And spread pain like a yellow viper.
33 Your eyes shall see strange things, And your heart shall speak wayward thoughts."
34 You will become like one who lies down on the heart of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of the rigging."
35 They smite me, yet I am not at all wounded; They beat me, yet I have no knowledge of it. When shall I awake? I shall do it again; I shall seek it once more."