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