Pro 23:1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you,
Pro 23:2 and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite.
Pro 23:3 Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies.
Pro 23:4 Do not labor to be rich, cease from your own understanding.
Pro 23:5 Will your eyes fly on it? And it is not! For surely it makes wings for itself, it flies into the heavens like an eagle.
Pro 23:6 Do not eat the bread of one having an evil eye, and do not desire his delicacies,
Pro 23:7 for as he reasons in his heart, so is he! He says to you, Eat and drink, but his heart is not with you.
Pro 23:8 You shall vomit the bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant words.
Pro 23:9 Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
Pro 23:10 Do not move the old landmark, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless,
Pro 23:11 for their Redeemer is mighty, He will contend for their cause with you.
Pro 23:12 Bring your heart in for instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Pro 23:13 Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
Pro 23:14 You shall strike him with the rod, and you shall deliver him from Sheol.
Pro 23:15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Pro 23:16 And my reins shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.
Pro 23:17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but only be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
Pro 23:18 For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope shall not be cut off.
Pro 23:19 My son, hear, you, and be wise, and advance your heart in the way.
Pro 23:20 Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with gluttons, flesh to themselves,
Pro 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe one with rags.
Pro 23:22 Listen to your father, this one fathered you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not, also wisdom, and instruction and understanding.
Pro 23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise one shall even be glad in him.
Pro 23:25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.
Pro 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes watch my ways.
Pro 23:27 For a harlot is a deep pit, and a strange woman is a narrow well.
Pro 23:28 Surely she lies in wait, as for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.
Pro 23:29 Who has woe, who sorrow? Who has contentions, who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of eyes?
Pro 23:30 Those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.
Pro 23:31 Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly,
Pro 23:32 at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like an adder.
Pro 23:33 Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;
Pro 23:34 yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast,
Pro 23:35 saying, They struck me! I was not sick! They beat me, yet I did not know. When I awaken I will add to it, I will still seek it.

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