Instruction of Amenemope

Budge1924 English printed page 147

THE TEACHING OF AMEN-EM-APT 147 77. May not we become ourselves like unto him ? 78. Set him up on his feet, extend to him gladly thy hand, 79. Commit him to the hands of the God.^ 80. Fill his belly with the bread-cakes of thy providing. 81. Satisfy him to the full [with drink] whilst he 82. Another occasion of beneficence is in the heart of the God, 83. Idleness of the mind is speech [in this case]. 84. Third Chapter. VIII. 85. Couple not together the chattering man with the devil Tar (?) 86. When thou canst pierce him in speech. 87. Idle in mind [is] the crooked man (?), bow thyself to the attacker. 88 [is] speech. 89. A raging wind he rushes forth like a destroy- ing fire among the reeds. 90. The noisy, hot-headed man in his hour {i.e., when his rage is greatest), 91. Turn thyself aside from before him, leave the matter of him 92. To the God [Who] knows how to requite him. ^ " The God,” pa neter, Amea-em-ipt, like the earlier and later writers of this class of literature, does not mention the name of any particular god, and the God to him meant what Al-Allah means to the Arabs. In the course of his Teaching he mentions Ra, Aten, and other gods, but I do not think he is referring to any of them here. In funerary texts " the god frequently means Osiris, but this Teaching is not a funerary text. K 2