(The seventeen kinds of men are), he who seeks to control one incapable of being brought under control; he who is satisfied with trifling gains; he who serves his enemies; he who controls women; he who asks favours that ought not to be asked; he who boasts, having done very little good; he who, well born, does improper acts; he who through week is always struggling with one who is powerful; he who talks to one listening with disgust; he who desires what ought not to be desired, O chief among men; he who being a father-in-law cracks jokes with his daughter-in-law; he whose fears being dispelled by his daughter-inlaw desires to be respected; he who sows his own seeds in the ground of another; and he who speaks very ill of his wife; he who having obtained a favour from another says he does nor remember it; he who having promised something makes empty boats when asked to perform it; he who seeks to prove the honesty of a dishonest person, the servitors of Yoma drag these down to hell, with noose in hand.
यश्चाशिष्यं शास्ति वै यश्च तुष्येद् यश्चातिबेलं भजते द्विषन्तम्। स्त्रियश्च यो रक्षति भद्रमश्नुते यशायाच्यं याचते कत्थते वा ॥ यश्चाभिजातः प्रकरोत्यकार्य यश्चाबलो बलिना नित्यवैरी। अश्रद्दधानाय च यो ब्रवीति यश्चाकाम्यं कामयते नरेन्द्र॥ बध्वावहासं श्वशुरो मन्यते यो वध्वा वसन्नभयो मानकामः। परक्षेत्रे निर्वपति यश्चबीजं स्त्रियः च यः परिवदतेऽतिवेलम्॥ यश्चापि लब्ध्वा न स्मरामीति वादी दत्त्वा च यः कत्थि याच्यमानः। यश्चासतः सत्त्वमुपानयीत एतान् नयन्ति निरयं पाशहस्ताः॥