Prov-23
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v1
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
v2
and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
v3
Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
v4
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
v5
When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
v6
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,
v7
for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
v8
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
v9
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
v10
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
v11
for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
v12
Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
v13
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
v14
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
v15
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
v16
My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
v17
Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
v18
Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
v19
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
v20
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
v21
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
v22
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
v23
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
v24
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
v25
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
v26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
v27
For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
v28
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.
v29
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
v30
Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine.
v31
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
v32
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
v33
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
v34
You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
v35
“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”