3. in a word among companions and fellow travelers, or by distributing the inheritance of friends;
4. in the fairness of scales and weights, or in acquiring much or little;
5. by the corruption of buying and negotiating, or in the ample discipline of children, or in causing the side of a wicked servant to bleed.
6. A seal is good over a wicked wife.
7. Where there are many hands, seal and deliver all things by number and weight; and truly, give and receive everything in writing.
8. You should not have shame in correcting the senseless, the foolish, and those youths who would judge their elders. And so shall you be well-instructed in all things and well-approved in the sight of all the living.
9. The vigilance of a father for his daughter is hidden, and his concern for her takes away his sleep. For perhaps, in her adolescence, she might be brought into adulthood. Or when she lives with her husband, she might become hateful.
10. In her virginity, she might be defiled, and then she may be found to be pregnant in her father's house. Or perhaps, when she lives with her husband, she might stray, or at least become barren.
11. Keep a close watch over a self-indulgent daughter. Otherwise, at some time, she might bring you into disgrace before your enemies, and into disrepute in the city, and into reproach among the people, and so she may confound you before the multitude of the people.
12. She should not choose to gaze upon the beauty of every man, and she should not choose to spend her time in the midst of married women.
13. For a moth goes forth from garments, and iniquity over a man goes forth from a woman.
14. Yet iniquity over a man is better for her than if a married woman, seeking to benefit her, instead leads her into confusion and disgrace.