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| Proverbs 23:1 | When you sit to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently what is before you; | When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you; |
| Proverbs 23:2 | Put a knife to your throat, If you are a man given to appetite. | And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food. |
| Proverbs 23:3 | Don't be desirous of his dainties, Seeing they are deceitful food. | Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit. |
| Proverbs 23:4 | Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. | Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money. |
| Proverbs 23:5 | Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. | 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 | Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, And don't crave his delicacies: | 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 thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you. | 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 you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words. | The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted. |
| Proverbs 23:9 | Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your 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 | Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on 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 Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you. | For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you. |
| Proverbs 23:12 | Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge. | Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge. |
| Proverbs 23:13 | Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will 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 | Punish him with the rod, And save his soul from Sheol. | Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld. |
| Proverbs 23:15 | My son, if your heart is wise, Then my heart will be glad, even mine: | My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart; |
| Proverbs 23:16 | Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right. | And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things. |
| Proverbs 23:17 | Don't let your heart envy sinners; But rather fear Yahweh 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 | Indeed surely there is a future hope, And your hope will not be cut off. | For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. |
| Proverbs 23:19 | Listen, my son, and be wise, And keep your heart on the right path! | Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way. |
| Proverbs 23:20 | Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, Or those who gorge themselves on meat: | 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 become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in 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 | Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your 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 don't sell it: Get wisdom, discipline, 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 has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in 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 | Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice! | Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy. |
| Proverbs 23:26 | My son, give me your heart; And let your eyes keep in my ways. | My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways. |
| Proverbs 23:27 | For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well. | For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. |
| Proverbs 23:28 | Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful 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 has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot 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 | Those who stay long at the wine; Those who go to seek out mixed wine. | Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. |
| Proverbs 23:31 | Don't look at the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly: | 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 bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper. | In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. |
| Proverbs 23:33 | Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things. | Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. |
| Proverbs 23:34 | Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or as he who lies on top of the rigging: | 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 hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another." | 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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