1Son, defraud thou not the alms-[deeds] of a poor man, and turn not over thine eyes from a poor man [or the poor].

2Despise thou not an hungry man, and wrath thou not a poor man in his neediness. [The hungering soul not despise thou, and stir thou not out to wrath the poor in his mis-ease.]

3Torment thou not the heart of a needy man, and tarry thou not the gift to a man that is set in anguish. [The heart of the helpless not torment thou, and draw thou not along a gift to the man put in straits.]

4Cast thou not away the praying of a man set in tribulation, and turn not away thy face from a needy man. [The praying of the troubled not cast thou away, and turn thou not away thy face from the needy.]

5Turn not away thine eyes from a poor man for ire [or From the helpless not turn thou away thine eyes for wrath], and give not occasion, [or cause], to men asking to curse thee behind.

6For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of soul, shall be heard; forsooth he that made him, shall hear him.

7Make thee easy to speak to the congregation of poor men, and make meek thy soul to a priest, that is, do thou due reverence to an eld man, and make meek thine head to a great man.

8Bow down without sorrow thine ear to a poor man [or the poor], and yield thy debt, and answer thou peaceably in mildness.

9Deliver thou him that suffereth wrong from the hand of a proud man, and bear thou not heavily in thy soul.

10In deeming be thou merciful as a father to fatherless children, and be thou for an husband to the mother of them; and thou shalt be as an obedient son of the Highest, and he shall have mercy on thee more than a mother hath mercy on her child.

11Wisdom inspireth life to his sons, and receiveth men seeking him, and shall go before in the way of rightfulness; [Wisdom to his sons inbreathed life, and receiveth the men out seeking him, and he shall go before in the way of rightwiseness;]

12and he that loveth that wisdom, loveth life, and they that wake to it, shall embrace the peaceableness [or the gladness], either sweetness, thereof.

13They that hold it, shall inherit life; and whither it shall enter, God shall bless.

14They that serve it, shall be obey-ing to the Holy; and God loveth them, that love it

15He that heareth it, deemeth folks; and he that beholdeth it, shall dwell trustily.

16If a man believeth [or give faith] to it, he shall dwell, and inherit it; and the creatures of them shall be in confirming, that is, the works of them shall be confirmed in good.

17For in temptation it goeth with him, and among the first it chooseth him. It shall bring in on him dread, and fear, and proving, and it shall torment him in the tribulation of his doctrine [or teaching], till it tempt him in his thoughts, and believe to his soul.

18And it shall make him steadfast, and shall bring right way to him, and it shall make him glad; and shall make naked his privates to him, and shall treasure on him knowing, and understanding of rightfulness [or rightwiseness].

19Forsooth if he erreth, God[or it] shall forsake him, and shall betake him into the hands of his enemy.

20Son, keep thou time, and eschew thou [or shun away] from evil. Be thou not ashamed for thy life to say truth;

21for why there is shame that bringeth sin, and there is shame that bringeth glory and grace.

22Take thou not a face against thy face, that is, against thy soul, neither a leasing against thy soul.

23Shame thou not thy neighbour in his fall [or falling], neither withhold thou a word in the time of health.

24Hide not thy wisdom in the fair-ness thereof; for why wisdom is known in [the] tongue, and wit, and knowing, and teaching in the word of a wise man; and steadfastness is in the works of rightfulness [or rightwise-ness].

25Against-say thou not the word of truth in any manner; and be thou ashamed of the leasing of thy mis-learning.

26Be thou not ashamed to acknowl-edge thy sins; and make thee not subject to each man for sin.

27Do not thou stand against [or withstand] the face of the mighty, neither endeavour thou against the stroke of the flood.

28For rightfulness [or rightwiseness] fight thou for the health of thy soul, and till to the death strive thou for rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; and God shall overcome thine enemies for thee.

29Do not thou be swift in thy tongue, and unprofitable and slack [or slothful] in thy works.

30Do not thou be as a lion in thine house, turning upside-down thy menials, and oppressing them that be subject/s to thee.

31Thine hand be not ready [or put forth] to take, and closed altogether to give.