Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets?

For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

For it is better that it be said to thee, Come up here, than that thou should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen.

Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

To have respect of persons is not good, nor that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.