Rules on Eating and Speaking

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This chapter contains 35 more doctrines by Solomon.

1. When you set down to eat with a king consider the consequences of the invitation.
2. Restrain your self and eat sparingly at the table of a king.
3. Be careful of the dainties of the king's table for they rich in fat and hard on the stomach.
4. Seek not riches but follow your own wisdom.
5. Richs soon fly away as an eagle.
6. Accept not the invitation of a man who secretly grudges what you eat.
7. For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is.
8. Food eaten at a grudges table may not stay down and then both of you may have harsh words.
9. Do not speak words to a fool for hr will despise your wisdom.
10. Do not remove old landmarks nor take advantage of the fatherless.
11. The fatherless have the Lord as their advocate, He will plead their cause.
12. Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to knowledge.
13. Do not withhold punishment from a child for the rod will not kill him.
14. Punishment will deliver his soul from hell.
15. If the son's heart is wise the father will rejoice.
16. If the son speaks right things the father shall rejoice.
17. Do not envy sinners but always fear the Lord.
18. The day will come when fear of the Lord will pay off.
19. Listen to the words of your father and be wise it will guide your heart in the right way.
20. Do not be a drunkard not a glutton.
21. Gluttons and drunkards shall come to poverty for it deadens the mind.
22. Listen to your father and love your mother when she is old.
23. Buy truth, wisdom, instruction and understanding and sell them not.
24. The father of a wise and righteous child shall have much joy from him.
25. The father and mother of a wise child shall rejoice.
26. Give your father all of your attention and observe his ways.
27. A prostitute is like a deep ditch or a pit; it is extremely difficult to get out of it.
28. A prostitute lays in wait for her prey and increases the number of sinners.
29. No one has problems without cause.
30. They that drink much wine have red eyes.
31. Drink not fermented wine.
32. Fermented wine bites like a snake.
33. When you are drunk your eyes will behold strange women.
34. When you are drunk your eyes will be blurred and your walk unsure.
35. When you sober up you will condemn those who filled you with wine, who seduced you and beat you but then you will do it again.

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