Instruction of Amenemope

Budge1924 English printed page 145

THE TEACHING OF AMEN-EM-APT 145 50. And the rejection of them will be a calamity [for thee]. 51. I beseech thee to deposit them in the treasure- house of thy belly. 52. They will enable thy heart (or, mind) to right itselP 53. When a gale of words is beating hard upon it, [and] 54. They will form a guiding support in thy tongue. 55. If thou wilt live thy life day by day these things being in thy heart 56. Thou wilt find them [beneficial] in the season of adversity’s trial. 57. (Col. IV). Thou wilt find my words to be like a treasure-house of life, 58. And a source of strength and safety [as long as thou art] upon the earth. 59. Second Chapter. I. 60. Guard thyself against plundering the poor man 61. And from treating with harshness the desti- tute. II. 62. Make not thy hand to turn aside at the approach of an aged man, 63. Thou assuming the mouth {i.e., speech) of a great man. 1 I.e., they will help the ship of the heart not to overturn (which is the usual meaning of pend) but to alter its course, and to sail, if necessary, in the opposite direction.