ECB(i)
1 When you settle to eat with a sovereign, in discerning, discern what is at your face;
2 and set a knife to your throat, if your soul is your master.
3 Neither desire his delicacies for they are a bread of lies:
4 nor labor to enrich; cease from your own discernment.
5 Flit your eyes thereon; and it is not: for in working, they work wings; they fly away as an eagle toward the heavens.
6 Neither eat the bread of an evil eye nor desire his delicacies;
7 for as he guards in his soul, thus is he: Eat and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
8 Vomit the morsel you ate and ruin your pleasant words.
9 Word not in the ears of a fool; for he disrespects the comprehension of your utterances.
10 Neither remove the eternal border; nor enter the fields of the orphan;
11 for their redeemer is strong: he defends their defence with you.
12 Apply your heart to discipline and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not discipline from the lad; when you smite him with the scion, he dies not:
14 smite him with the scion and rescue his soul from sheol.
15 My son, if your heart enwisens, my heart cheers - even mine.
16 yes, my reins rejoice when your lips word straightnesses.
17 O that your heart not envy sinners; and awe Yah Veh all the day long.
18 For surely there is a finality; then your hope is not cut off.
19 Hear you, my son and enwisen and blithe your heart in the way.
20 Be not among carousers of wine - among gluttons of flesh;
21 for the carouser and the glutton become dispossessed; and drowsiness enrobes with shreds.
22 Hearken to your father who birthed you and disrespect not your mother when she ages.
23 Chattelize the truth; sell it not - wisdom and discipline and discernment.
24 In twirling, the father of the just twirls; and he who births the wise cheers in him.
25 Your father and your mother cheer and she who birthed you twirls.
26 My son, give me your heart so that your eyes guard my ways.
27 For a whore is a deep chasm; and a stranger is a narrow well.
28 She also lurks as a robber and increases them who deal covertly among humanity.
29 Who has woe? Who has will? Who has contentions? Who has meditation? Who has wounds gratuitously? Who has flushness of eyes?
30 They who linger at the wine; they who go to probe cocktails.
31 See not on the wine when it reddens - when it gives its eye in the pouch - when it passes in straightnesses:
32 and finally bites as a serpent and wounds as a hisser.
33 Your eyes see strange women and your heart words perversions:
34 yes, you - as he who lies in the heart of the sea - as he who lies on the top of a mast.
35 They smote me, and I was not sick; they hammered me, and I knew it not. When waken I? I seek it again and again.