Proverbs 23
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The Sixth Saying
1When you sit down to eat with someone important, keep in mind who he is.#23.1 keep… is; or notice carefully what is before you. 2If you have a big appetite, restrain yourself. 3Don't be greedy for the fine food he serves; he may be trying to trick you.
The Seventh Saying
4Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich. 5Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle.
The Eighth Saying
6Don't eat at the table of a stingy person or be greedy for the fine food he serves. 7“Come on and have some more,” he says, but he doesn't mean it. What he thinks is what he really is. 8You will vomit up what you have eaten, and all your flattery will be wasted.
The Ninth Saying
9Don't try to talk sense to a fool; he can't appreciate it.
The Tenth Saying
10Never move an old boundary mark or take over land owned by orphans. 11The LORD is their powerful defender, and he will argue their case against you.
The Eleventh Saying
12Pay attention to your teacher and learn all you can.
The Twelfth Saying
13Don't hesitate to discipline children. A good spanking won't kill them. 14As a matter of fact, it may save their lives.
The Thirteenth Saying
15Son, if you become wise, I will be very happy. 16I will be proud when I hear you speaking words of wisdom.
The Fourteenth Saying
17Don't be envious of sinful people; let reverence for the LORD be the concern of your life. 18If it is, you have a bright future.
The Fifteenth Saying
19Listen, my child, be wise and give serious thought to the way you live. 20Don't associate with people who drink too much wine or stuff themselves with food. 21Drunkards and gluttons will be reduced to poverty. If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.
The Sixteenth Saying
22Listen to your father; without him you would not exist. When your mother is old, show her your appreciation.
23Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense — these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.
24A righteous man's father has good reason to be happy. You can take pride in a wise son.
25Make your father and mother proud of you; give your mother that happiness.
The Seventeenth Saying
26Pay close attention, son, and let my life be your example. 27Prostitutes and immoral women are a deadly trap. 28They wait for you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful.
The Eighteenth Saying
29-30Show me someone who drinks too much, who has to try out some new drink, and I will show you someone miserable and sorry for himself, always causing trouble and always complaining. His eyes are bloodshot, and he has bruises that could have been avoided. 31Don't let wine tempt you, even though it is rich red, though it sparkles in the cup, and it goes down smoothly. 32The next morning you will feel as if you had been bitten by a poisonous snake. 33Weird sights will appear before your eyes, and you will not be able to think or speak clearly. 34You will feel as if you were out on the ocean, sea-sick, swinging high up in the rigging of a tossing ship. 35“I must have been hit,” you will say; “I must have been beaten up, but I don't remember it. Why can't I wake up? I need another drink.”
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Good News Bible. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 23
23
1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Look well what is before you;
2And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.
3Do not desire his delicacies, For that food is deceptive.
4Do not labour to be rich. Cease from your own understanding!
5Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens.
6Do not eat the bread of one having an evil eye, Nor desire his delicacies;
7For as he reckons in his life, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you.
8You vomit the piece you have eaten, And lose your sweet words.
9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on the wisdom of your words.
10Do not move the ancient boundary, And do not enter the fields of the fatherless;
11For their Redeemer is strong; He shall plead their cause against you.
12Bring your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge.
13Do not withhold discipline from a child; If you strike him with a rod, he does not die.
14Strike him with a rod And deliver his being from She’ol.
15My son, if your heart shall be wise, My heart rejoices, even I,
16And my kidneys exult When your lips speak what is straight.
17Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be in the fear of יהוה all day long;
18For certain, there is a hereafter, And let your expectancy not be cut off.
19Hear, my son, and be wise, And guide your heart in the way.
20Be not among heavy drinkers of wine Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
21For the drunkard and the glutton become poor, And slumber puts rags on a man.
22Listen to your father who brought you forth, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
23Buy the truth and do not sell it – Wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24The father of the righteous greatly rejoices, And he who brings forth a wise one delights in him.
25Let your father and your mother rejoice, And let her who bore you exult.
26My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes watch my ways.
27For a whore is a deep pit, And a strange woman is a narrow well.
28She too lies in wait as for a prey, And increases the treacherous among men.
29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who feels hurt without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
30Those staying long at the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
31Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it gives its colour in the cup, As it flows smoothly;
32In the end it bites like a snake, And stings like an adder –
33Your eyes look on strange women, And your heart speaks perversities.
34And you shall be as one Lying down in the midst of the sea, And as one lying at the top of the mast, saying,
35“They struck me, I was not sick! They beat me, I did not know! When shall I wake up? Let me seek it again!”
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