1   When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, ^note consider diligently what is before thee,

2    ^noteAnd put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.

3   Be not desirous of his deintie meates: ^note for it is a deceiuable meate.

4   Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy ^note wisdome.

5   Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.

6   Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an ^note euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.

7   For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.

8   Thou shalt vomit thy ^note morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

9   Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.

10    ^noteRemooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.

11   For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will ^note defend their cause against thee.

12   Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.

13    ^noteWithhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.

14   Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from ^note hell.

15   My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.

16   And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.

17    ^noteLet not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lorde continually.

18   For surely there is an ende, ^note and thy hope shall not be cut off.

19   O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the ^note way.

20   Keepe not company with ^note drunkards, nor with ^note gluttons.

21   For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.

22   Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.

23   Bye ^note the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.

24   The father of the righteous shal greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.

25   Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.

26   My sonne, giue mee ^note thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.

27    ^noteFor a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a

Enuie not the wicked. strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

28    ^noteAlso she lyeth in wait as for a praye, ^note and she increaseth the transgressers among men.

29   To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes?

30   Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, ^note and seeke mixt wine.

31   Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.

32   In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

33   Thine ^note eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.

34   And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the ^note sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste.

35   They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I ^note seeke it yet still.

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