Proverbs 23:6-16

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.

¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

¹⁵My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:

¹⁶And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.