1Love thou not jealously the woman of thy bosom or Be thou not jealous to the woman of thy bosom; lest she show on thee the malice of evil doctrine.
2Give thou not to a woman the power of (or over) thy soul; lest she enter in thy virtue, and thou be shamed or confounded.
3Behold thou not a woman of many wills (or desires), that coveteth now this man, now that man; lest peradventure thou fall into the snares of her.
4Be thou not customable with a danceress, neither hire thou her; lest peradventure thou perish in the speedy work of her.
5Behold thou not a virgin or a maiden; lest peradventure thou be caused to stumble in (or by) the fairness of her.
6Give thou not thy soul to whores in anything; lest thou lose thee, and thy soul, and thine heritage, (or lest thou destroy thyself, and thy soul, and thy inheritance).
7Do not thou behold about in the lanes of the city; neither err thou (or wander) in the large streets thereof. Do thou not behold about in the ways of the city; nor err thou about in the streets of it.
8Turn away thy face from a woman well-arrayed; and behold thou not about the fairness of another or of another man’s wife. Many men have perished for the fairness of a woman; and thereby covetousness or lust burneth on high as fire or burneth out as fire. Each woman which is an whore, either customable to fornication, shall be defouled as a fen, or a turd, in the way. Many men wondering on the fairness of an alien woman were made reprovable, for why the speech of her burneth on high as fire.
9Sit thou not in any manner with an alien woman, neither rest thou with her on a bed or nor lie thou with her upon the arm; and jangle or strive thou not with her in wine, lest peradventure thine heart bow or she bow down thine heart into her, and thou fall or slide into perdition by thy blood.
10Forsake thou not an eld or old friend; for a new friend shall not be like him. New wine is (like) a new friend; (after) it shall wax eld or old, and (then) thou shalt drink it with sweetness.
11Covet thou not the glory and riches of a sinner; for thou knowest not, what destroying of him shall come. Love thou not the glory and riches of the sinner; forsooth thou knowest not, what be to come (of) the turning upside-down of him.
12The wrong of unjust or unright-wise men please not thee, and know thou that a wicked man or the unpious shall not please till to hells, or unto hell, (or the grave).
13Be thou far from a man that hath power to slay, that is, from a cruel tyrant, and thou shalt not have suspicion of the dread of death; and if thou nighest to him, do not thou do any trespass or anything do amiss, lest peradventure he take away thy life. Know thou the communing of death; for thou shalt enter into the midst of snares, and thou shalt go on the armours, or arms, (or weapons) of them that sorrow.
14By thy virtue, keep thee (away) from thy neighbour that may speak against thee to a tyrant; and treat thou with wise men and prudent men.
15Just or Rightwise men be guests, or meat-frères, (or meal companions) to thee; and thy glorying be in the dread of God.
16And the thought of God be to thee in wit, that is, apply thy wit to think on God; and all thy telling-out be in the behests (or about the commands) of the Highest.
17Works shall be praised in (or from) the hand of craftsmen, and the prince of the people in the wisdom of his word; forsooth in the wit of elder men or of elders a word shall be praised.
18A man, a jangler, or a tonguey man, is dreadful or fearful in his city; and a foolhardy man in his word shall be hateful.
