h: 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
lose thy beantiful 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