Thou shalt strike him mocking, and the simple will be crafty: and reprove to him understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine eyes, being filled with bread.

He revealing a secret going about tale-bearing: and thou shalt not intermingle with him embracing his lips.

Thou shalt not say, I will requite evil; wait for Jehovah, he will save to thee.

Incline thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and thou shalt set thy heart to my knowledge.

For pleasant things if thou shalt watch them in thy belly; they shall be prepared together for thy lips.

Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate.

Thou shalt not be companion of the possessor of anger, and with the man of wrath thou shalt not go:

Lest thou shalt learn his ways and take a snare to thy soul.

Thou shalt not be with those striking the hand with those pledging for debts.

Thou shalt not remove the old bound which thy fathers made.

Sawest thou a man apt in his works? Before kings shall he stand; he shall not stand before the dark ones

If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee.

And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

Thou shalt not long for his dainties: and it is the bread of lies.

Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.

Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

Thou shalt not eat the bread of an evil eye, and ye shall not long for its dainties:

Thy morsel which thou didst eat thou shalt vomit forth and destroy thy pleasant words.

In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:

Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.

Thou shalt strike him with the rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hades.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart right in the way.

Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.

My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way.

Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses.

And thou wert as he lying down in the heart of the sea, and as he lying down upon the head of the mast

Thou shalt not envy against men of evil, thou shalt not desire to be with them.

For by guidance thou shalt make to thee war, and in the multitude of counselors salvation.

Wilt thou be discouraged in the day of straits thy strength is narrow.

If thou shalt refrain to deliver those being brought to death, and those going to be slain;

If thou shalt say, Behold, we knew not this; will not he trying hearts, understand? and he guarding thy soul, knew? and he turned back to man according to his work.

So the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul if thou shalt find: and there is a latter state and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Thou shalt not lay wait, O wicked one, against the dwelling of the just one; thou shalt not destroy his resting place:

In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult:

Thou shalt not be angry against the evil; thou shalt not envy against the unjust:

My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king: thou shalt not intermingle with those changing:

He saying to the unjust, Thou art just; peoples shall curse him, and nations shall curse him:

Thou shalt not be a witness gratuitously against thy neighbor, and deceive not with thy lips.

Thou shalt not say, According to what he did to me, thus will I do to him: I will turn back to the man according to his work.

Thou shalt not show thyself proud before the king, and thou shalt not stand in the place of the great.

Thou shalt not go forth hastily to strive, lest what thou shalt do in its latter state in thy neighbor putting thee to shame.

Contend thy contention with thy neighbor; and thou shalt not reveal the secret of another:

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

For thou tookest up coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will recompense to thee.

Thou shalt not answer the foolish according to his folly lest thou shalt be like to him.

Sawest thou a man wise in his eyes? hope is for the foolish one more than for him.

When his voice will compassionate, thou shalt not believe him, for seven abominations in his heart

Thou shalt not boast upon the day of the morrow, for thou shalt not know what a day shall bring forth.

Thy friend and thy father's friend thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt not go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: good he dwelling near, more than a brother far off.

If thou shalt pound the foolish in a mortar in the midst of the grain with a pestle, thou shalt not remove from him his folly.

Knowing, thou shalt know the face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy herds.

Thou sawest a man hasty in his words: hope to the foolish one more than to him.

Who went up to the heavens, and came down? who gathered the wind in his fists? who bound the waters in a garment? who set up all the ends of the earth? what his name and what his son's name, if thou shalt know?

Thou shalt not add to his words lest he reprove in thee, and thou wert false.

Two things I asked from thee, thou wilt not withhold from me before I shall die:

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

Thou shalt not slander the servant to his lord lest he shall curse thee, and thou wert guilty.

If thou wert foolish in lifting up thyself, and if thou purposed, the hand to the mouth.

Thou shalt not give thy strength to women, and thy ways to the destroying of kings.

Many daughters did virtue, and thou wentest up over all of them.

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.

Watch thy feet when thou shalt go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than give the sacrifice of the foolish, for they not knowing the doing of evil.

Thou shalt not hasten with thy mouth, and thy heart shall not be quick to bring forth a word to the face of God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon the earth: for this thy words shall be few.

When thou shalt vow a vow to God, thou shalt not delay to repay it; for there is no desire in the foolish: repay what thou shalt vow.

Good that thou shalt not vow rather than thou shalt vow and not requite.

Thou shalt not give thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; and thou shalt not say to the face of the messenger that it is an error: wherefore shall God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

For in the multitude of dreams, and vanities, and many words: but fear thou God.

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

Thou shalt not be hastened in thy spirit to be angry, for anger shall rest in the bosom of fools.

Thou shalt not say, Why was it the former days were good above these? for thou didst not ask from wisdom concerning this

In the day of good, be in good; and in the day of evil, see thou: also God made this over against this, to the end that man shall not find anything after him.

Thou shalt not be greatly just; and thou shalt not be exceedingly wise: wherefore wilt thou be made desolate?

Thou shalt not be greatly wicked, and thou shalt not be foolish: wherefore wilt thou die not in thy time?

Good that thou shalt hold fast upon this; also from this thou shalt not lead away thy hand: for he fearing God shall come forth with all of them.

Also to all the words that shall be spoken thou shalt not give thy heart, that thou shalt not hear thy servant cursing thee.

For also many times thy heart knew that thou didst also curse others.

Thou shalt not hasten going from his face: thou shalt not stand by the word of evil; for he shall do all that he will desire.

Wheresoever the word of a king, it is powerful: and who shall say to him, What wilt thou do?

See life with the wife which thou didst love all the days of the life of thy vanity which he gave to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for this thy portion in life, and in thy labor which thou laborest under the sun.

All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.

If the spirit of him ruling shall go up against thee, thou shalt not leave thy place; for quietness will put down great sins.

Happy thou, O land: thy king the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall eat in time, in strength and not in drinking.

Thou shalt not curse the king in thy consciousness, and in thy bed-chamber thou shalt not curse the rich for the bird of the heavens will bring the voice, and the possessor of wings shall announce the word.

Send forth thy bread upon the face of the waters, for in a multitude of days thou shalt find it

Thou shalt give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou shalt not know what shall be evil upon the earth.

As thou wilt not know what the way of the spirit, as the bones in the womb of her being filled, so thou shalt not know the work of God who will make all.

In the morning sow thy seed, and at evening thou shalt not let thy hand rest: for thou shalt not know whether this shall be right, this or that, or if they two as one being good.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and thy heart shall do thee good in the days of thy youth, and go in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment

And remember him creating thee in the days of thy youth, till even when the days of evil shall not come, and the years draw near in which thou shalt say, Not to me delight in them;

We will hear the end of all the word: Fear thou God, and watch his commands: for this is all man.

Thou shalt not see me, I am black; the sun searched me: my mother's sons were angry with me; they set me to watch the vineyards; my vineyard I watched not for me.

Announce to me, thou whom my soul loved, where thou wilt feed, where thou wilt lie down at noon: wherefore shall I be as he covered by the herds of thy companions.

If thou shalt not know for thyself, O fair one among women, come forth for thyself at the heels of the flock, and feed thy kids by the shepherds' tents.

Until the day shall breathe and the shadows fled away, turn, thou, it being likened to thee, my beloved, to the roe, or to the fawn of the hind upon the mountains of section.

Thou shalt come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: thou shalt go round about from the head of faith, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the dwellings of lions, from the mountains of panthers.

Thou didst rob me of the heart, my sister, O bride; thou didst rob me of the heart with one of thine eyes, with one necklace of thy neck.