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| Proverbs 23:1 | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: | When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you; |
| Proverbs 23:2 | And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. | And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food. |
| Proverbs 23:3 | Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. | Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit. |
| Proverbs 23:4 | Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. | Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money. |
| Proverbs 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. | Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven. |
| Proverbs 23:6 | Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: | Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat: |
| Proverbs 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. | For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you. |
| Proverbs 23:8 | The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. | The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted. |
| Proverbs 23:9 | Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. | Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words. |
| Proverbs 23:10 | Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: | Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father; |
| Proverbs 23:11 | For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. | For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you. |
| Proverbs 23:12 | Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. | Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge. |
| Proverbs 23:13 | Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. | Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him. |
| Proverbs 23:14 | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. | Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld. |
| Proverbs 23:15 | My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. | My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart; |
| Proverbs 23:16 | Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. | And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things. |
| Proverbs 23:17 | Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. | Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day; |
| Proverbs 23:18 | For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. | For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. |
| Proverbs 23:19 | Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. | Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way. |
| Proverbs 23:20 | Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: | Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat: |
| Proverbs 23:21 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. | For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed. |
| Proverbs 23:22 | Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. | Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old. |
| Proverbs 23:23 | Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. | Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense. |
| Proverbs 23:24 | The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. | The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him. |
| Proverbs 23:25 | Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. | Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy. |
| Proverbs 23:26 | My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. | My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways. |
| Proverbs 23:27 | For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. | For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. |
| Proverbs 23:28 | She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. | Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men. |
| Proverbs 23:29 | Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? | Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark? |
| Proverbs 23:30 | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. | Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. |
| Proverbs 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. | Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: |
| Proverbs 23:32 | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. | In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. |
| Proverbs 23:33 | Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. | Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. |
| Proverbs 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. | Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. |
| Proverbs 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. | They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again. |
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