The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

like a {robber} shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

There is one who gives yet {grows richer}, but he who withholds {what is right} only [finds] need.

From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing.

The delight of kings [are] the lips of righteousness, and he who speaks what is upright he will love.

[In order] to show you what is right--sayings of truth-- [in order] to return a true saying to him who sent you.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what [is] before you,

And my {insides} will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

do not hastily bring out to court, for what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

[If] you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.

Do not boast {about tomorrow}, for you do not know what the day will bring.

Who has ascended [to] heaven and come down? Who has gathered [the] wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What [is] his name and what is the name of his child? For [surely] you know.

What, my son? And what, my son in my womb? And what, son of my vows?

Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the {afflicted}.