<p class="poetry">And there will be enough goat&#8217;s milk for your food,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for the food of your household,p> <p class="poetry">and for the sustenance<n id="2" /> of your servant girls.p>

<p class="poetry">yet it prepares its food in the summer;p> <p class="poetry">it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Come, eat<n id="1" /> some of my food,p> <p class="poetry">and drink some of the wine I have mixed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Stolen waters<n id="1" /> are sweet,p> <p class="poetry">and food obtained in secret<n id="2" /> is pleasant!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Do not crave that ruler&#8217;s<n id="1" /> delicacies,p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="2" /> that food is deceptive.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">She is like<n id="1" /> the merchant ships;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">she brings her food from afar.p>

<p class="poetry">For they eat bread<n id="1" /> gained from wickedness<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and drink wine obtained from violence.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Better is a person of humble standing<n id="1" /> who nevertheless has a servant,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">than one who pretends to be somebody important<n id="3" /> yet has no food.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who works<n id="1" /> his field will have plenty<n id="2" /> of food,p> <p class="poetry">but whoever chases daydreams<n id="3" /> lacks wisdom.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Bread gained by deceit<n id="1" /> tastes sweet to a person,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">A generous person<n id="1" /> will be blessed,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for he gives some of his food<n id="3" /> to the poor.p>

<p class="poetry">A poor person<n id="1" /> who oppresses the weakp> <p class="poetry">is like<n id="2" /> a driving rain without food.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who works his land will be satisfied with food,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but whoever chases daydreams<n id="2" /> will have his fill<n id="3" /> of poverty.p>

<p class="poetry">under a servant<n id="1" /> who becomes king,p> <p class="poetry">under a fool who is stuffed with food,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">ants are creatures with little strength,p> <p class="poetry">but they prepare<n id="1" /> their food in the summer;p>

<p class="poetry">She watches over<n id="1" /> the ways of her household,p> <p class="poetry">and does not eat the bread of idleness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">for on account<n id="1" /> of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread,p> <p class="poetry">but the wife of another man<n id="2" /> preys on your precious life.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not love sleep,<n id="1" /> lest you become impoverished;p> <p class="poetry">open your eyes so that<n id="2" /> you might be satisfied with food.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not eat the food of a stingy person,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">do not crave his delicacies;p>

<p class="poetry">If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,p> <p class="poetry">and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,p>