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| 23:1 |
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee:
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| 23:2 |
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [art] a man given to appetite.
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| 23:3 |
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful food.
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| 23:4 |
Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
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| 23:5 |
Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards 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 in his heart, 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 ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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| 23:10 |
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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| 23:11 |
For their redeemer [is] mighty; he will plead their cause with thee.
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| 23:12 |
Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.
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| 23:13 |
Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
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| 23:14 |
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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| 23:15 |
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
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| 23:16 |
Yes, my reins shall 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 the LORD all the day long.
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| 23:18 |
For surely there is an end; and thy expectation 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 wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
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| 23:21 |
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.
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| 23:22 |
Hearken to 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; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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| 23:24 |
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.
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| 23:25 |
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.
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| 23:26 |
My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.
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| 23:27 |
For a lewd woman [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
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| 23:28 |
She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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| 23:29 |
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? 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 mixed wine.
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| 23:31 |
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
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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 |
Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
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| 23:34 |
And 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, [wilt 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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