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Rh :Have not I written unto thee excellent things
 * Of counsels and knowledge;
 * That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth,
 * That thou mightest bring back words of truth to them that send thee?


 * Rob not the weak, because he is weak,
 * Neither crush the poor in the gate;
 * For the will plead their cause,
 * And despoil of life those that despoil them.


 * Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger;
 * And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go;
 * Lest thou learn his ways,
 * And get a snare to thy soul.


 * Be thou not of them that strike hands,
 * Or of them that are sureties for debts;
 * If thou hast not wherewith to pay,
 * Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?


 * Remove not the ancient landmark,
 * Which thy fathers have set.


 * Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings;
 * He shall not stand before mean men.


 * When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
 * Consider well him that is before thee;
 * And put a knife to thy throat,
 * If thou be a man given to appetite.
 * Be not desirous of his dainties;
 * Seeing they are deceitful food.
 * Weary not thyself to be rich;
 * Cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone;
 * For riches certainly make themselves wings,
 * Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.


 * Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
 * Neither desire thou his dainties;
 * For as one that hath reckoned within himself, so is he:
 * 'Eat and drink', saith he to thee;
 * But his heart is not with thee.
 * The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
 * And lose thy sweet words.


 * Speak not in the ears of a fool;
 * For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.


 * Remove not the ancient landmark;
 * And enter not into the fields of the fatherless;
 * For their Redeemer is strong;
 * He will plead their cause with thee.


 * Apply thy heart unto instruction,
 * And thine ears to the words of knowledge.


 * Withhold not correction from the child;
 * For though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
 * Thou beatest him with the rod,
 * And wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.


 * My son, if thy heart be wise,
 * My heart will be glad, even mine;
 * Yea, my reins will rejoice,
 * When thy lips speak right things.