Instruction of Amenemope

Budge1924 English printed page 174

174 the teaching OF AMEN-EM-APT 470. (Col. XXIV). Thou then repeating what he said to thee outside in the town. 471. Even when thou hast brought thy mouth outside [his house], 472. Do not empty out into the street what is in thy breast. 473. Since the heart (or, mind) of a man is the nose of God 474. Take good heed that thou dost not cause it sorrow. 475. The man [to whom thou speakest] may be a powerful official, 476. [He may also be] a private person whose name is quite unknown. 477. Twenty-fifth Chapter. XCIX. 478. Make not a laughing-stock of the blind man. Vex^ (or, browbeat) not the dwarf, 479. [And] frustrate not the plans of the afflicted (or, lame) man. 480. Vex^ (or, irritate) not a man who is in the hand of the God {i.e., the man who is suffering through some dispensation of God) 481. By singing to him the praises of him who has wronged him. C. 482. Even if a man mixes the mud [and] the straw 483. It is the God Who is his builder. 484. It is He Who throws down [a house], it is He Who builds [it] up daily. 485. It is He Who can turn a thousand [men] into corruption at His pleasure. 1 Or, perhaps, " make not a mock of.”