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(5.1) Stir not the flood; be not the man who argues;(5.2) do not answer a heart that is burning;(5.3) bend before the hot one; the crocodile's tongue(5.4) will curl back into its own stillness.(5.5) My son, keep the teaching of your father;(5.6) take it deep into your heart,(5.7) for it is a beacon over the water:(5.8) walk in it, and your foot will not fail.(5.9) Do not eat bread under a man's roof(5.10) without first giving him your eye and your peace.(5.11) * Beware of stealing the field of the poor,(5.12) and of trampling the vineyard of the widow.(5.13) Do not put your hand to the furrow of the fatherless,(5.14) nor lift the boundary of the man who has no protector.(5.15) Their plea will rise in the end, and you will hear;(5.16) their cry will reach the sky above you.(5.17) The silence of the broken is louder than thunder;(5.18) the strong ox lowing is not like the arrow's cry.(5.19) * Do not fill your heart with the field of another;(5.19) let the morning come, and God will weigh it.

(5.1) Don't stir up a flood; don't be the one who argues;(5.2) don't answer a burning heart;(5.3) step back from the furious man; the crocodile's tongue(5.4) curls back into its own stillness.(5.5) My son, keep the teaching of your father;(5.6) take it deep into your heart,(5.7) for it is a light over the water:(5.8) walk by it and your foot won't slip.(5.9) Don't eat bread in a man's house(5.10) until you have given him your greeting.(5.11) * Beware of stealing the poor man's field,(5.12) and of trampling the widow's vineyard.(5.13) Don't touch the fatherless man's furrow,(5.14) or move the boundary of one who has no defender.(5.15) Their plea will rise in the end, and you will hear it;(5.16) their cry will reach the sky above you.(5.17) The silence of the broken is louder than thunder;(5.18) the lowing of a strong ox is not like an arrow's cry.(5.19) * Don't fill your heart with another's field;(5.19) let morning come, and God will weigh it.