DAWN

¹ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
consider diligently [understanding you shall understand this] what is before thee:
² And put a knife to thy throat,
if thou be a man given to appetite.
³ Be not desirous of his dainties:
for they are deceitful meat.

⁴ Labour not to be rich:
cease from thine own wisdom.
⁵ Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
for riches certainly make themselves [making they shall make] wings;
they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

⁶ Eat thou not [this] the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
neither desire thou his dainty meats:
⁷ For as he thinketh in his heart,
so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee;
but his heart is not with thee.
⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
and lose thy sweet words.

⁹ Speak not in the ears of a fool:
for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark;
and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty;
he shall plead their cause with thee.

¹² Apply thine heart unto instruction,
and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child:
for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

¹⁵ My son,
if thine heart be wise,
my heart shall rejoice,
even mine.
¹⁶ Yea, my reins shall rejoice,
when thy lips speak right things.

¹⁷ Let not thine heart envy sinners:
but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
¹⁸ For surely there is an end;
and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
¹⁹ Hear thou, my son,
and be wise,
and guide thine heart in the way.

²⁰ Be not among winebibbers [quaffers of wine];
among riotous eaters [gluttons of] flesh:
²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:
and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,
and despise not thy mother when she is old.
²³ Buy the truth,
and sell it not;
also wisdom,
and instruction,
and understanding.
²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice [rejoicing he shall rejoice]:
and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him [he shall brighten].
²⁵ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,
and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

²⁶ My son,
give me thine heart,
and let thine eyes observe my ways.
²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch;
and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
²⁸ She also lieth in wait as for a prey,
and increaseth the transgressors among men.

²⁹ Who hath woe?
who hath sorrow?
who hath contentions?
who hath babbling?
who hath wounds without cause?
who hath redness of eyes?
³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine;
they that go to seek mixed wine.
³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,
when it giveth his colour in the cup,
when it moveth itself aright.
³² At the last it biteth like a serpent,
and stingeth like an adder.
³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange women,
and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
³⁴ 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.
³⁵ 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.

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