The chat will start when you send the first message.
1Chide [or Strive] thou not with a mighty man, lest thou fall into his hands.
2Strive thou not with a rich man, lest peradventure he make play again-ward to thee [or lest again-ward he set strife to thee] . For why gold and silver hath lost many men; and it stretcheth forth till to the heart[s] of kings, and turneth them .
3Chide [or Strive] thou not with a man, a jangler [or a tonguey man] , and lay thou not trees into his fire.
4Commune thou not with an untaught man, lest he speak evil of thy kindred.
5Despise thou not a man turning away himself from sin, neither up-braid thou him [nor put thou reproof to him] ; have thou mind, that all we be in corruption.
6Despise thou not a man in his eld age ; for why some of us men wax eld [or old] .
7Do not thou make joy of thine enemy being dead, witting that all we die, and will not to come into joy of our enemies .
8Despise thou not the telling of wise priests, and be thou conversant in the proverbs of them [or in the proverbs of them altogether dwell thou] ; for of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and teaching of understand-ing, and to serve without complaint to great men.
9The telling of elder men pass not by thee [or Pass not beside thee the telling of elders] ; for they have learned of their fathers. For of them thou shalt learn understanding; and in the time of need thou shalt give [an] answer.
10Kindle thou not the coals of sinners, and reprove them; and be thou not burnt with the flame of [the] fire of their sins.
11Stand thou not against the face of a man full of despising [or the face of the strifeful] ; lest he sit as an espyer to thy mouth.
12Do not thou lend to a man stronger than thou; that if thou hast lent, have thou it as lost.
13Promise thou not above [or over] thy power or virtue; that if thou hast promised, bethink thou as yielding, for thou art holden to do thy might .
14Deem thou not against a judge; for he deemeth after that, that is just.
15Go thou not in the way with an hardy man, lest peradventure he aggregate his evils in thee; for he goeth after his will, and thou shalt perish together with him through his folly.
16Make thou not chiding [or jangling] with a wrathful man, and go thou not into desert with an hardy man; for why blood, that is, shedding out of innocent blood , is as nought before him, and where none help is [or and where is not help] , he shall hurtle thee down.
17Have thou not counsel with fools; for they may not love, but those things that please them.
18Make thou not a counsel before a stranger; for thou knowest not, what he shall bring forth.
19Make not thine heart known to each man [or To all men thine heart open thou not] , but only to a very friend, and proved ; lest peradventure he bring to thee false grace, that is, feigned friendship , and despise [or put reproof to] thee.