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1. My words have been spoken by God -- the oracular answer of a king, whom his mother instructed.

2. What wilt thou keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to thee: what? ^[a] son of my womb? what? son of my vows?
3. Give not thy wealth to women, nor thy mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.
4. Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:
5. lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and be not able to judge the poor rightly.
6. Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:
7. that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.
8. Open thy mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly.
9. Open thy mouth and judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and weak.