Proverbs 23
23
1 When you sit down to eat with a leader, pay close attention to what has been set before your face,
2 and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.
3 Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.
4 Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence.
5 Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky.
6 Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods.
7 For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. "Eat and drink," he will say to you; and his mind is not with you.
8 The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words.
9 Do not speak into the ears of the unwise. They will despise the doctrine of your eloquence.
10 Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless.
11 For their close relative is strong, and he will judge their case against you.
12 Let your heart enter into doctrine, and let your ears enter into words of knowledge.
13 Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
14 You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.
15 My son, if your soul will become wise, my heart will be glad with you.
16 And my temperament will exult, when your lips will have spoken what is upright.
17 Let not your heart compete with sinners. But be in the fear of the Lord all day long.
18 For you will have hope in the end, and your expectation will not be taken away.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way.
20 Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh.
21 For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.
22 Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
23 Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.
24 The father of the just exults in gladness; he who has conceived the wise will rejoice in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult.
26 My son, offer me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways.
27 For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.
28 She lies in wait along the way like a robber. And the incautious one whom she sees, she will put to death.
29 Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes?
30 Is it not those who linger over wine, and who strive to be drinking from their cups?
31 Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly,
32 but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes.
33 Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities.
34 And you will be like someone sleeping in the middle of the sea, and like a pilot, fast asleep, who has lost his hold on the helm.
35 And you will say: "They have beaten me, but I did not feel pain. They have dragged me, and I did not realize it. When will I awaken and find more wine?"
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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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