chapter_Proverbs_23
Proverbs 23:1: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee, Proverbs 23:2: And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite. Proverbs 23:3: Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food. Proverbs 23:4: Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not. Proverbs 23:5: For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens. Proverbs 23:6: Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties, Proverbs 23:7: For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, 'Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee. Proverbs 23:8: Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet. Proverbs 23:9: In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words. Proverbs 23:10: Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not, Proverbs 23:11: For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee. Proverbs 23:12: Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge. Proverbs 23:13: Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. Proverbs 23:14: Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest. Proverbs 23:15: My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine, Proverbs 23:16: And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly. Proverbs 23:17: Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But &#8212; in the fear of Jehovah all the day. Proverbs 23:18: For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off. Proverbs 23:19: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart, Proverbs 23:20: Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh, Proverbs 23:21: For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags. Proverbs 23:22: Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old. Proverbs 23:23: Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding, Proverbs 23:24: The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him. Proverbs 23:25: Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful. Proverbs 23:26: Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways. Proverbs 23:27: For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit. Proverbs 23:28: She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth. Proverbs 23:29: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? Proverbs 23:30: Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine. Proverbs 23:31: See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright. Proverbs 23:32: Its latter end &#8212; as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth. Proverbs 23:33: Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. Proverbs 23:34: And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast. Proverbs 23:35: They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake &#8212; I seek it yet again!'
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