23:2. And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power. 23:3. Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit. 23:4. Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence. 23:5. Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven. 23:6. Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats: 23:7. Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee. 23:8. The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words. 23:9. Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech. 23:10. Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: 23:11. For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee. 23:12. Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge. 23:13. Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. 23:14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell. 23:15. My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee: 23:16. And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right. 23:17. Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long: 23:18. Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away. 23:19. Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way. 23:20. Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat: 23:21. Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags. 23:22. Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23:23. Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 23:24. The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him. 23:25. Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee. 23:26. My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways. 23:27. For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 23:28. She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. 23:29. Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 23:30. Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups. 23:31. Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, 23:32. But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.