Proverbs 23

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¹ If you take your seat at a great man's table, take careful note of what you have before you;	¹ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
² if you have a big appetite put a knife to your throat.	² And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
³ Do not hanker for his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.	³ Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
⁴ Do not wear yourself out in quest of wealth, stop applying your mind to this.	⁴ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
⁵ Fix your gaze on it, and it is there no longer, for it is able to sprout wings like an eagle that flies off tothe sky.	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 Do not eat the food of anyone whose eye is jealous, do not hanker for his delicacies.	⁶ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
⁷ For what he is real y thinking about is himself: 'Eat and drink,' he tells you, but his heart is not with you.	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 You wil spit out whatever you have eaten and find your compliments wasted.	⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
⁹ Do not waste words on a fool, who wil not appreciate the shrewdness of your remarks.	⁹ Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
¹⁰ Do not displace the ancient boundary-stone, or encroach on orphans' lands,	¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
¹¹ for they have a powerful avenger, and he will take up their cause against you.	¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
¹² Apply your heart to discipline, and your ears to instructive sayings.	¹² Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
¹³ Do not be chary of correcting a child, a stroke of the cane is not likely to be fatal.	¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
¹⁴ Give him a stroke of the cane, you wil save his soul from Sheol.	¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
¹⁵ My child, if your heart is wise, then my own heart is glad,	¹⁵ My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
¹⁶ and my inmost self rejoices when from your lips come honest words.	¹⁶ Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
¹⁷ Do not let your heart be envious of sinners but remain steady every day in the fear of Yahweh;	¹⁷ Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
¹⁸ for there is a future, and your hope wil not come to nothing.	¹⁸ For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
¹⁹ Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.	¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
²⁰ Do not be one of those forever tippling wine nor one of those who gorge themselves with meat;	²⁰ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
²¹ for the drunkard and glutton impoverish themselves, and sleepiness is clothed in rags.	²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
²² Listen to your father from whom you are sprung, do not despise your mother in her old age.	²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
²³ Purchase truth -- never sel it-wisdom, discipline, and discernment.	²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
²⁴ The father of the upright wil rejoice indeed, he who fathers a wise child wil have joy of it.	²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
²⁵ Your father and mother will be happy, and she who bore you joyful.	²⁵ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
²⁶ My child, pay attention to me, let your eyes take pleasure in my way:	²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
²⁷ a prostitute is a deep pit, a narrow wel , the woman who belongs to another.	²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
²⁸ Yes, like a brigand, she lies in wait, increasing the number of law-breakers.	²⁸ She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
²⁹ For whom is pity, for whom contempt, for whom is strife, for whom complaint, for whom blows struckat random, for whom the clouded eye?	²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
³⁰ For those who linger over wine too long, ever on the look-out for the blended liquors.	³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
³¹ Do not gaze at wine, how red it is, how it sparkles in the cup! How smoothly it slips down the throat!	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 In the end its bite is like a serpent's, its sting as sharp as an adder's.	³² At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
³³ Your eyes wil see peculiar things, you will talk nonsense from your heart.	³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
³⁴ You will be like someone sleeping in mid-ocean, like one asleep at the mast-head.	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 'Struck me, have they? But I'm not hurt. Beaten me? I don't feel anything. When shal I wake up? . . I'lask for more of it!'	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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