| 23 | Proverbs | ||
| 1 | When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you; | ||
| 2 | and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite. | ||
| 3 | Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. | ||
| 4 | Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist. | ||
| 5 | When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. | ||
| 6 | Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies; | ||
| 7 | for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. "Eat and drink!" he says to you; but his heart is not with you. | ||
| 8 | You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words. | ||
| 9 | Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. | ||
| 10 | Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless; | ||
| 11 | for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you. | ||
| 12 | Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge. | ||
| 13 | Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. | ||
| 14 | If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol. | ||
| 15 | My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. | ||
| 16 | My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. | ||
| 17 | Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of Yahweh all the day. | ||
| 18 | Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. | ||
| 19 | Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way. | ||
| 20 | Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat; | ||
| 21 | for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. | ||
| 22 | Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. | ||
| 23 | Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. | ||
| 24 | The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him. | ||
| 25 | Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice. | ||
| 26 | My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. | ||
| 27 | For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well. | ||
| 28 | She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men. | ||
| 29 | Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? | ||
| 30 | Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine. | ||
| 31 | Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. | ||
| 32 | At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. | ||
| 33 | Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. | ||
| 34 | You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. | ||
| 35 | "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink." | ||
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