Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.

Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

Death and Destruction are before the Lord – how much more the hearts of humans!

Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

Fear the Lord, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.