41:2 Lo! Death, how good (is) [your] sta[tute]
[for] one without wealth and lacking vitality,
(to) a person stumbling <one fal[len?]> and ensnared by [ ] one lacking vision, void of hope.
41:3 Fear not Death, your destiny (lit., statute); remember that the ancient(s) and th(os)e following (are) with you.
41:4 This is the end of all [ ]
[ ] the most high?
For ten, one hundred, or one thousand years
[ ]
41:5 Rejected offspring (are) the gen[erat]ions of the wicked,
[ of the wi]cked.
41:6 [ reproach [
] man’s [ ] authority (over the household) is lost;
] forever.
41:7 Chil[dren] curse [
[
]
] they are scorned (lit., an object of contempt).
41:8 O[ ] unrighteous men,
41:9 [
(you) who abandon the law of the most high.
] (it is) by [ ] and if you bear children, (it is) for moaning.
41:9b+-c [ ] (it is) for the joy of the people, and if you die, (it is to become) a curse.
41:10 [ ] naught to naught returns, thus, the godless (who are) from a void to a void (return).
41:11 Epheme[ral (are)
[
] their [ ]
] a pious name is not destroyed.
41:12 [Re]spect (your) name since it will attend you more than (would) a thousand desirous [ ].
41:13 [The b]enefit (that) the living (enjoy is) of a limited time (lit., days), but the benefit of [ ] has no such limit.
41:14b-c Hidden [w]isdom and concealed treasure-- what profit (is) in these two things?
41:15 Better the person who hid[es] his folly than the person who hides his wisdom.
41:14a/16a Hear, O children, the instruction on shame;
[be] humble according to my precepts.
41:16b-c Not every shame merits shameful feelings (lit., feeling ashamed), nor is every disgrace desirable.
41:17 Be ashamed of a father or mother on account of wantonness, of a prince or ruler on account of lying,
41:18 of lord or lad[y] on account of conspiracy, of congregation (read hd( ) or people [on] account of [tr]ansgression,

41:18c/19a of comrade or friend on account of treachery, of the place where you sojourn on account of theft (lit., a hand),
41:19b-c of breaking oath and covenant, and of one extending a border on account of food,
41:19d/21a of withhol[ding] a requested gift, and of turning away one of your family (lit., face of your flesh),
41:21b/20a of keeping silent (at) a portion’s division, and of requesting the salutation of the deaf,