<p class="poetry">The lips of a fool<n id="1" /> enter into strife,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and his mouth invites<n id="3" /> a flogging.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The wicked person&#8217;s sacrifice<n id="1" /> is an abomination;p> <p class="poetry">how much more<n id="2" /> when he brings it with evil intent!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not move an ancient boundary stone,p> <p class="poetry">or take over<n id="1" /> the fields of the fatherless,p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly;p> <p class="poetry">in an instant<n id="1" /> he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.p>

<p class="poetry">So it is with<n id="1" /> the one who has sex with<n id="2" /> his neighbor&#8217;s wife;p> <p class="poetry">no one<n id="3" /> who touches<n id="4" /> her will escape<n id="5" /> punishment.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Suddenly he went<n id="1" /> after herp> <p class="poetry">like an ox that goes to the slaughter,p> <p class="poetry">like a stag prancing into a trapper&#8217;s snare<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not make friends with an angry person,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and do not associate with a wrathful person,p>

<p class="poetry">Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow,p> <p class="poetry">so a curse without cause<n id="1" /> does not come to rest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The stingy person<n id="1" /> hastens after richesp> <p class="poetry">and does not know that poverty will overtake him.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because you have fallen into your neighbor&#8217;s power:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">go, humble yourself,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and appeal firmly<n id="4" /> to your neighbor.p>

<p class="poetry">Do not forsake your friend and your father&#8217;s friend,p> <p class="poetry">and do not enter your brother&#8217;s house in the day of your disaster;p> <p class="poetry">a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.<n id="1" />p>