^4 (C)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
^[b](D)Stop dwelling on it.
^5 [c]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For ^(E)wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

^6 (F)Do not eat the bread of ^[d]a ^(G)selfish person;
Or desire his delicacies;
⁷ For as he ^[e]thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But ^(H)his heart is not with you.
⁸ You will ^(I)vomit up ^[f]the morsel you have eaten
And waste your ^[g]compliments.

^9 (J)Do not speak ^[h]to be heard by a fool,
For he will ^(K)despise the wisdom of your words.

¹⁰ Do not move the ancient boundary
Or ^(L)go into the fields of the fatherless,
¹¹ For their ^(M)Redeemer is strong;
^(N)He will plead their case against you.
¹² Apply your heart to discipline,
And your ears to words of knowledge.

^13 (O)Do not withhold discipline from a child;
Though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
¹⁴ You shall strike him with the rod
And ^(P)rescue his soul from Sheol.

¹⁵ My son, if your heart is ^(Q)wise,
My own heart also will be glad,
¹⁶ And my ^[i]innermost being will rejoice
When your lips speak ^(R)what is right.

^17 (S)Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But live in ^[j]the ^(T)fear of the Lord ^[k]always.
¹⁸ Certainly there is a ^[l](U)future,
And your ^(V)hope will not be cut off.
¹⁹ Listen, my son, and ^(W)be wise,
And ^(X)direct your heart in the way.
²⁰ Do not be with ^(Y)heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with ^(Z)gluttonous eaters of meat;
²¹ For the ^(AA)heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And ^(AB)drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

^22 (AC)Listen to your father, who fathered you,
And ^(AD)do not despise your mother when she is old.
^23 (AE)Buy truth, and do not sell it,
Get wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

²⁴ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And ^(AF)he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
²⁵ Let your ^(AG)father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

^26 (AH)Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes ^[m](AI)delight in my ways.
²⁷ For a prostitute is a ^(AJ)deep pit,
And a ^[n](AK)strange woman is a narrow well.
²⁸ Certainly she ^(AL)lurks as a robber,
And increases the treacherous among mankind.

²⁹ Who has ^(AM)woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has red eyes?
³⁰ Those who ^(AN)linger long over wine,
Those who go to ^[o]taste ^(AO)mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look at wine when it is red,
When it ^[p]sparkles in the cup,
When it ^(AP)goes down smoothly;
³² In the end it ^(AQ)bites like a snake
And stings like a ^(AR)viper.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things
And your ^[q]mind will ^(AS)say perverse things.
³⁴ And you will be like one who lies down in the ^[r]middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a ^[s]mast.
³⁵ “They ^(AT)struck me, but I did not become ^[t]ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When will I awake?
I will ^(AU)seek ^[u]another drink.”