MLV(i)
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently he who is before you,
2 and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
3 Do not be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
4 Do not weary yourself to be rich. Cease out of your own wisdom. 5 Will you set your eyes upon what is not? Because it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
6 Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, nor desire his dainties. 7 Because as he thinks within himself, so is he. Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 8 The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up and lose your sweet words.
9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, because he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Do not remove the ancient landmark. And do not enter into the fields of the fatherless, 11 because their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against you.
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold correction from the child, because if you beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14 You will beat him with the rod and will deliver his soul from Sheol.
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad, even mine. 16 Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak in uprightness.
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day long. 18 Because surely there is a reward and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Hear, my son and be wise and advance your heart in the way.
20 Do not be among drunkards, among gluttonous eaters of flesh. 21 Because the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
22 Listen to your father who fathered you and do not despise your mother because she is old.
23 Buy the truth and do not sell it, yes, wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad and let her who bore you rejoice.
26 My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways. 27 Because a prostitute is a deep ditch and an strange woman is a narrow well. 28 Yes, she lies in wait as a robber and increases the treacherous among men.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who abide long at the wine. Those who go to seek out mixed wine.
31 Do not look upon the wine because it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. 32 At the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
33 Your eyes will behold strange things and your heart will utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, you will say and I was not hurt. They have beaten me and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
4 Do not weary yourself to be rich. Cease out of your own wisdom. 5 Will you set your eyes upon what is not? Because it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
6 Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, nor desire his dainties. 7 Because as he thinks within himself, so is he. Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 8 The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up and lose your sweet words.
9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, because he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Do not remove the ancient landmark. And do not enter into the fields of the fatherless, 11 because their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against you.
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold correction from the child, because if you beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14 You will beat him with the rod and will deliver his soul from Sheol.
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad, even mine. 16 Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak in uprightness.
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day long. 18 Because surely there is a reward and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Hear, my son and be wise and advance your heart in the way.
20 Do not be among drunkards, among gluttonous eaters of flesh. 21 Because the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
22 Listen to your father who fathered you and do not despise your mother because she is old.
23 Buy the truth and do not sell it, yes, wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad and let her who bore you rejoice.
26 My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways. 27 Because a prostitute is a deep ditch and an strange woman is a narrow well. 28 Yes, she lies in wait as a robber and increases the treacherous among men.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who abide long at the wine. Those who go to seek out mixed wine.
31 Do not look upon the wine because it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. 32 At the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
33 Your eyes will behold strange things and your heart will utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, you will say and I was not hurt. They have beaten me and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.