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Prov.|23:1|-|When you sit to eat with a ruler,Consider carefully |1|who is before you;
Prov.|23:2|-|And put a knife to your throatIf you are a man of great appetite.
Prov.|23:3|-|Do not desire his delicacies,For they are deceitful food.
Prov.|23:4|-|Do not weary yourself to become |a|rich;Cease from your consideration of it.
Prov.|23:5|-|When you set your eyes upon it, it is gone;For |a|wealth certainly makes itself wings,
Like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
Prov.|23:6|-|Do not eat the bread of one who is envious,And do not desire his delicacies;
Prov.|23:7|-|For as he thinks within himself, so he is.He says to you, Eat and drink;
But his heart is not with you.
Prov.|23:8|-|You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten,And waste your pleasant words.
Prov.|23:9|-||a|Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Prov.|23:10|-||a|Do not remove the ancient boundary marker,Or go into the fields of the fatherless;
Prov.|23:11|-|For their |a|Redeemer is strong;He will plead their cause against you.
Prov.|23:12|-|Apply your heart to instruction,And your ears to words of knowledge.
Prov.|23:13|-|Do not withhold |a|correction from a child;If you beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Prov.|23:14|-|If you beat him with the rod,You will deliver his soul from |a|Sheol.
Prov.|23:15|-|My son, if your heart is wise,My own heart will also rejoice;
Prov.|23:16|-|My inward parts will also exult,When your lips speak right things.
Prov.|23:17|-|Do not let your heart envy sinners,But live in the fear of Jehovah all day long;
Prov.|23:18|-|For surely there is a latter end,And your hope will not be cut off.
Prov.|23:19|-|Listen, my son, and be wise,And direct your heart in the way.
Prov.|23:20|-|Do not be among those who get drunk with wine,Among gluttonous eaters of flesh;
Prov.|23:21|-|For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,And drowsiness will clothe them with rags.
Prov.|23:22|-|Listen to your |a|father who begot you,And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Prov.|23:23|-|Buy |a|truth, and do not sell it;Buy wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Prov.|23:24|-|The father of the righteous man will greatly exult,And he who begets a wise child will rejoice in him.
Prov.|23:25|-|Let your father and your mother rejoice,And let her who bore you exult.
Prov.|23:26|-|My son, give me your heart,And let your eyes |1|observe my ways.
Prov.|23:27|-|For a harlot is a deep pit,And an adulteress is a narrow well.
Prov.|23:28|-|Indeed, she lies in wait as a robber,And increases the number of the treacherous among men.
Prov.|23:29|-|Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions?Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness
of eyes?
Prov.|23:30|-|Those who linger late over |a|wine,Those who go to seek out mixed wines.
Prov.|23:31|-|Do not look upon the wine when it is red,When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;
Prov.|23:32|-|In the end it bites like a serpent,And stings like an adder.
Prov.|23:33|-|Your eyes will see strange things,And your heart will utter perverse things;
Prov.|23:34|-|And you will be like one who lies down while at sea,Or like one who lies down at the top of a mast.
Prov.|23:35|-|They struck me, you will say, but I was not hurt;They beat me, but I did not feel it;
When will I awake? I will seek another drink.
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