Do not rejoice over a corpse; remember that we all gathered away.
Do not forsake the rules of the wise, and tread not on their proverbs,
[And even their mundane talk do not disparage,] for it will stand you before noblemen, and from you they will learn instruction.
Do not despise the discourse of the aged, of what they heard from their fathers,
for from them thou shalt learn prudence, and in a time of need to respond proverbially. [Interpretation: folk ideas have hidden local knowledge and social truths that can be hard to parse at first.]