The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out. 15Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great. 16A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever. 17My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both? 18Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom. 19Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of. 20For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion. 21Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: 22Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people: 23Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest, 24Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking: 25Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman. 26Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring. 27Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed. 28Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not. 1Repeat not the word which thou hast heard, and disclose not the thing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and shalt find favour before all men: be not ashamed of any of these things, and accept no person to sin thereby: 2Of the law of the most High, and of his covenant, and of judgment to justify the ungodly: 3Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends: 4Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little: 5Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed. 6Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife. 7Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in. 8Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.