23:6. Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
23:7. Because, 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.
23:8. The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt lose thy beantiful words.
23:9. Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
23:10. Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
23:11. For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
23:12. Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.
23:13. Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
23:14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
23:15. My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee: