15. Consider your neighbor’s liking by your own; And be discreet in every point.
16. Eat, as becomes a man, those things which are set before you; And eat not greedily, lest you be hated.
17. Be first to leave off for manners’ sake; And be not insatiable, lest you offend.
18. And if you sit among many, Reach not out your hand before them.
19. How sufficient to a well-mannered man is a very little, And he does not breathe hard upon his bed.
20. Healthy sleep comes of moderate eating; He rises early, and his wits are with him: The pain of wakefulness, and colic, And griping, are with an insatiable man.
21. And if you have been forced to eat, Rise up in the midst thereof, and you shall have rest.
22. Hear me, my son, and despise me not, And at the last you shall find my words true: In all your works be quick, And no disease shall come to you.
23. Him that is liberal of his meat the lips shall bless; And the testimony of his excellence shall be believed.
24. Him that is a niggard of his meat the city shall murmur at; And the testimony of his niggardness shall be sure.
25. Show not yourself valiant in wine; For wine has destroyed many.
26. The furnace proves the temper of steel by dipping; So does wine prove hearts in the quarreling of the proud.
27. Wine is as good as life to men, If you drink it in its measure: What life is there to a man that is without wine? And it has been created to make men glad.
28. Wine drunk in season and to satisfy Is joy of heart, and gladness of soul:
29. Wine drunk largely is bitterness of soul, With provocation and conflict.
30. Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt; It diminishes strength, and adds wounds.
31. Rebuke not your neighbor at a banquet of wine, Neither set him at nothing in his mirth: Speak not to him a word of reproach, And press not upon him by asking back a debt.