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