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