1. When you sit down to dine with a ruler,mark well the one who is before you;
2. Stick the knife in your gulletif you have a ravenous appetite.
3. Do not desire his delicacies;it is food that deceives.
4. Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth,cease to be worried about it;
5. When your glance flits to it, it is gone!For assuredly it grows wings,like the eagle that flies toward heaven.
6. Do not take food with unwilling hosts,and do not desire their delicacies;
7. For like something stuck in the throat is that food.“Eat and drink,” they say to you,but their hearts are not with you;
8. The little you have eaten you will vomit up,and you will have wasted your agreeable words.
9. Do not speak in the hearing of fools;they will despise the wisdom of your words.
10. Do not remove the ancient landmark,nor invade the fields of the fatherless;
11. For their redeemer is strong;he will defend their cause against you.
12. Apply your heart to instruction,and your ear to words of knowledge.
13. Do not withhold discipline from youths;if you beat them with the rod, they will not die.
14. Beat them with the rod,and you will save them from Sheol.
15. My son, if your heart is wise,my heart also will rejoice;
16. And my inmost being will exult,when your lips speak what is right.
17. Do not let your heart envy sinners,but only those who always fear the Lord;