4Do not thou travail to be made rich, but set thou measure to thy prudence.
5Raise not thine eyes to riches, which thou mayest not have; for those or they shall make to them-selves pens or wings, as of an eagle, and they shall fly into heaven.
6Eat thou not with an envious man, and desire thou not his meats;
7for at the likeness of a false diviner, and of a conjecturer, that is, expounder of dreams, he guesseth that, that he knoweth not. He shall say to thee, Eat thou and drink; and his soul is not with thee.
8Thou shalt spew out the meat, which thou hast eaten; and thou shalt lose thy fair words.
9Speak thou not in the ears of unwise men; for they shall despise the teaching of thy speech.