O Lord, Father and Master of my life,

2 Who will set scourges over my thought,

3 That mine ignorances be not multiplied,

4 O Lord, Father and God of my life,

5 And turn away concupiscense from me.

6 Let not greediness and chambering overtake me;

7 Hear ye, my children, the discipline of the mouth;

8 The sinner shall be overtaken in his lips;

9 Accustom not thy mouth to an oath;

10 For as a servant that is continually scourged shall not lack a bruise,

11 A man of many oaths shall be filled with iniquity;

12 There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death:

13 Accustom not thy mouth to gross rudeness,

14 Remember thy father and thy mother,

15 A man that is accustomed to words of reproach

16 Two sorts of men multiply sins,

17 All bread is sweet to a fornicator:

18 A man that goeth astray from his own bed,

19 —And the eyes of men are his terror,

20 All things were known unto him or ever they were created;

21 This man shall be punished in the streets of the city;

22 So also a wife that leaveth her husband,

23 For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High;

24 She shall be brought out into the congregation;

25 Her children shall not spread into roots,

26 She shall leave her memory for a curse;

27 And they that are left behind shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord,