Every friend will say, I also am his friend:

2 Is there not a grief in it even unto death,

3 O wicked imagination, whence camest thou rolling in

4 There is a companion, who rejoiceth in the gladness of a friend,

5 There is a companion, who for the belly’s sake laboreth with his friend,

6 Forget not a friend in thy soul;

7 Every counselor extolleth counsel;

8 Let thy soul beware of a counselor,

9 And say unto thee, Thy way is good:

10 Take not counsel with one that looketh askance at thee;

11 Take not counsel with a woman about her rival;

12 But rather be continually with a godly man,

13 And make the counsel of thy heart to stand;

14 For a man’s soul is sometimes wont to bring him tidings,

15 And above all this entreat the Most High,

16 Let reason be the beginning of every work,

17 As a token of the changing of the heart,

18 Four manner of things do rise up,

19 There is one that is shrewd and the instructor of many,

20 There is one that is subtle in words, and is hated;

21 For grace was not given him from the Lord;

22 There is one that is wise to his own soul;

23 A wise man will instruct his own people;

24 A wise man shall be filled with blessing;

25 The life of man is numbered by days;

26 The wise man shall inherit confidence among his people,

27 My son, prove thy soul in thy life,

28 For all things are not profitable for all men,

29 Be not insatiable in any luxury,

30 For in multitude of meats there shall be disease,

31 Because of surfeiting have many perished;