Proverbs 23:4-13

⁴Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

⁵Lift 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.

⁶Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

⁷Because 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.

⁸The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

⁹Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.

¹⁰Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

¹¹For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

¹²Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.

¹³Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.