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Proverb 23
23*When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
****observe carefully what[a] is before you,
2*and put a knife to your throat
****if you have a big appetite.
3*Do not desire the ruler’s delicacies,
****for they are deceptive food.
4*Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
****be wise enough to desist.
5*When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;
****for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
****flying like an eagle toward heaven.
6*Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
****do not desire their delicacies;
7*for like a hair in the throat, so are they.[c]
****“Eat and drink!” they say to you;
****but they do not mean it.
8*You will vomit up the little you have eaten,
****and you will waste your pleasant words.
9*Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
****who will only despise the wisdom of your words.
10*Do not remove an ancient landmark
****or encroach on the fields of orphans,
11*for their redeemer is strong;
****he will plead their cause against you.
12*Apply your mind to instruction
****and your ear to words of knowledge.
13*Do not withhold discipline from your children;
****if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.
14*If you beat them with the rod,
****you will save their lives from Sheol.
15*My child, if your heart is wise,
****my heart too will be glad.
16*My soul will rejoice
****when your lips speak what is right.
17*Do not let your heart envy sinners,
****but always continue in the fear of the Lord.
18*Surely there is a future,
****and your hope will not be cut off.
19*Hear, my child, and be wise,
****and direct your mind in the way.
20*Do not be among winebibbers,
****or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
21*for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
****and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.
22*Listen to your father who begot you,
****and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23*Buy truth, and do not sell it;
****buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24*The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
****he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
25*Let your father and mother be glad;
****let her who bore you rejoice.
26*My child, give me your heart,
****and let your eyes observe[d] my ways.
27*For a prostitute is a deep pit;
****an adulteress[e] is a narrow well.
28*She lies in wait like a robber
****and increases the number of the faithless.
29*Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
****Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
****Who has redness of eyes?
30*Those who linger late over wine,
****those who keep trying mixed wines.
31*Do not look at wine when it is red,
****when it sparkles in the cup
****and goes down smoothly.
32*At the last it bites like a serpent,
****and stings like an adder.
33*Your eyes will see strange things,
****and your mind utter perverse things.
34*You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
****like one who lies on the top of a mast.[f]
35*“They struck me,” you will say,[g] “but I was not hurt;
****they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
****I will seek another drink.”
23*When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
****observe carefully what[a] is before you,
2*and put a knife to your throat
****if you have a big appetite.
3*Do not desire the ruler’s delicacies,
****for they are deceptive food.
4*Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
****be wise enough to desist.
5*When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;
****for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
****flying like an eagle toward heaven.
6*Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
****do not desire their delicacies;
7*for like a hair in the throat, so are they.[c]
****“Eat and drink!” they say to you;
****but they do not mean it.
8*You will vomit up the little you have eaten,
****and you will waste your pleasant words.
9*Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
****who will only despise the wisdom of your words.
10*Do not remove an ancient landmark
****or encroach on the fields of orphans,
11*for their redeemer is strong;
****he will plead their cause against you.
12*Apply your mind to instruction
****and your ear to words of knowledge.
13*Do not withhold discipline from your children;
****if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.
14*If you beat them with the rod,
****you will save their lives from Sheol.
15*My child, if your heart is wise,
****my heart too will be glad.
16*My soul will rejoice
****when your lips speak what is right.
17*Do not let your heart envy sinners,
****but always continue in the fear of the Lord.
18*Surely there is a future,
****and your hope will not be cut off.
19*Hear, my child, and be wise,
****and direct your mind in the way.
20*Do not be among winebibbers,
****or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
21*for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
****and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.
22*Listen to your father who begot you,
****and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23*Buy truth, and do not sell it;
****buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24*The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
****he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
25*Let your father and mother be glad;
****let her who bore you rejoice.
26*My child, give me your heart,
****and let your eyes observe[d] my ways.
27*For a prostitute is a deep pit;
****an adulteress[e] is a narrow well.
28*She lies in wait like a robber
****and increases the number of the faithless.
29*Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
****Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
****Who has redness of eyes?
30*Those who linger late over wine,
****those who keep trying mixed wines.
31*Do not look at wine when it is red,
****when it sparkles in the cup
****and goes down smoothly.
32*At the last it bites like a serpent,
****and stings like an adder.
33*Your eyes will see strange things,
****and your mind utter perverse things.
34*You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
****like one who lies on the top of a mast.[f]
35*“They struck me,” you will say,[g] “but I was not hurt;
****they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
****I will seek another drink.”
