11. For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
12. Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
13. Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
15. My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
16. And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
17. Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
18. Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
19. Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
20. Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
21. Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
22. Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23. Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24. The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
25. Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
26. My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
27. For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28. She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.