Chapter 23
1 Ki te noho tahi kōrua ko te rangatira ki te kai, āta whakaaroa mārietia tērā i tōu aroaro;
2 whakapākia he māripi ki tōu korokoro, ki te mea he tangata kakai koe.
3 Kaua e hiahia ki āna mea reka; he kai tinihanga hoki ērā.
4 Kaua e tāruke ki te mea taonga; kāti tāu mea ki tōu mātauranga.
5 E anga mai rānei ōu kanohi ki taua mea korekore nei? He pono hoki ka whai parirau te taonga, koia ānō kei te ēkara, rere ana whaka te rangi.
6 Kaua e kainga te kai a te tangata kanohi kino, kei minamina hoki koe ki āna mea reka.
7 Ko tāna hoki e mea ai i roto i a ia, pērā tonu ia, "E kai, e inu!" koia tāna kupu ki a koe; kāhore ia ōna ngākau ki a koe.
8 Ko te kongakonga i kainga e koe, ka ruakina e koe, ka maumauria anō hoki āu kupu reka.
9 Kaua e kōrero ki ngā taringa o te kūware; ka whakahāwea hoki ia ki te whakaaro nui o āu kupu.
10 Kei whakanekehia e koe te rohe tawhito; kei haere koe ki ngā māra a te pani;
11 nō te mea he kaha tō rātou kaiwhakaora; ka tohea e ia tā rātou tohe ki a koe.
12 Anga atu tōu ngākau ki te ako, me ōu taringa ki ngā kupu o te mātauranga.
13 Kaua e tohungia te whiu ki te tamaiti; ki te patua hoki ia e koe ki te rākau, e kore ia e mate.
14 Tātātia ia e koe ki te rākau, ā, ka whakaorangia e koe tōna wairua i te rēinga.
15 E tāku tama, ki te whakaaro nui tōu ngākau, ka koa hoki tōku ngākau, āe rā, tōku nei anō;
16 āe rā, ka hari ōku whatumanawa, ina kōrero ōu ngutu i ngā mea tika.
17 Kei hae tōu ngākau ki te hunga hara; engari kia wehi koe ki a Ihowā, ā pau noa te rā.
18 He pono hoki tērā ānō he whakautu; e kore anō hoki tāu i tūmanako ai e hātepea atu.
19 Whakarongo rā, e tāku tama, kia whai whakaaro hoki koe, ā, whakatikaia tōu ngākau i te ara.
20 Kei uru ki te hunga kakai wāina; ki te hunga pukukai kikokiko;
21 nō te mea ka tutuki tahi te tangata inuinu rāua ko te tangata kakai ki te rawakore; he tawhetawhe hoki te kākahu a te momoe mō te tangata.
22 Whakarongo ki tōu pāpā nāna koe; kaua hoki e whakahāwea ki tōu whaea ina rūruhi ia.
23 Hokona te pono, kaua hoki e whakawhitiwhitia; āe rā, te whakaaro nui, te ako hoki, me te mātauranga.
24 Nui atu hoki te koa o te pāpā o te tangata tika; ā, ko te tangata e whānau he tama whakaaro nui māna, ka hari ia ki a ia.
25 Kia hari tōu pāpā rāua ko tōu whaea, inā, kia koa te wahine i whānau ai koe.
26 E tāku tama, hōmai tōu ngākau ki ahau, kia manako anō hoki ōu kanohi ki āku ara.
27 Nō te mea he rua hōhonu te wahine kairau; he poka kūiti te wahine kē.
28 Āe rā, ka whanga ia ānō he kaipāhua, ā, ka whakatokomahatia e ia ngā tāngata poka kē.
29 Ko wai e auē? Ko wai e tangi? Ko wai e totohe? Ko wai e ngangautia? Ko wai e marū, he mea takekore? Ko wai e whero tonu ōna kanohi?
30 Ko te hunga e noho roa ana ki te wāina; ko te hunga e haere ana ki te rapu i te wāina whakaranu.
31 Kaua e titiro ki te wāina i te mea e whero ana, ina puta tōna kara i roto i te kapu, ina mania tōna heke.
32 Tōna tukunga iho ānō he nākahi e ngau ana, koia anō kei te wero a te neke.
33 E kite hoki ōu kanohi i ngā mea rerekē, ā, ka puta he kupu rerekē i tōu ngākau.
34 Āe rā, ka rite koe ki te tangata e takoto ana i waenga moana, ki te tangata rānei e takoto ana i te tihi o te rewa.
35 Ā, ka mea koe, "Patua ana ahau e rātou, ā, kīhai ahau i mamae; tātātia ana ahau e rātou, ā, kīhai ahau i mōhio. Āhea ahau ara ake ai? Ka rapua anō e ahau."