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| 23:1 |
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;
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| 23:2 |
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
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| 23:3 |
Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.
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| 23:4 |
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
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| 23:5 |
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
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| 23:6 |
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
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| 23:7 |
For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
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| 23:8 |
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
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| 23:9 |
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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| 23:10 |
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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| 23:11 |
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
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| 23:12 |
Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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| 23:13 |
Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
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| 23:14 |
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
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| 23:15 |
My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
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| 23:16 |
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
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| 23:17 |
Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:
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| 23:18 |
For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.
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| 23:19 |
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
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| 23:20 |
Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
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| 23:21 |
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
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| 23:22 |
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
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| 23:23 |
Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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| 23:24 |
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
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| 23:25 |
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
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| 23:26 |
My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
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| 23:27 |
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
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| 23:28 |
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
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| 23:29 |
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
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| 23:30 |
They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.
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| 23:31 |
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:
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| 23:32 |
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
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| 23:33 |
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
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| 23:34 |
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.
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| 23:35 |
They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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