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Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what
is before thee:
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to
appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
desire thou his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith
he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose
thy sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom
of thy words.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of
the fatherless:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with
thee.
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words
of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him
with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul
from hell.
15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even
mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the
LORD all the day long.
18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be
cut off.
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the
way.
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy
mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction,
and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that
begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee
shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow
pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the
transgressors among men.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath
babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed
wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an
adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the
sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they
have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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