4. Do not tire in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist.
5. Your eyes will alight on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.
6. Do not eat the bread of the stingy, and do not desire his delicacies.
7. For, like hair in his throat, so it is. “Eat and drink!” he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.
8. Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words.
9. In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10. Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
11. For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.
12. Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13. Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14. As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol.
15. My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad—even me!
16. And my insides will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.
17. May your heart not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh all day.
18. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.