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Proverbs 23
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1If you sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before you:
1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
2and apply your hand, knowing that it behoves you to prepare such [meats]: but if you are very insatiable,
2And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
3desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
4If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man; but refrain yourself in your wisdom.
4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
5If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6Sup not with an envious man, neither desire you his meats:
6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel with him:
7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8for he will vomit it up, and spoil your fair words.
8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
9Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at your wise words.
9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.
11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
12Apply your heart to instruction, and prepare your ears for words of discretion.
12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13Refrain not from chastening a child; for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death.
14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
15Son, if your heart be wise, you shall also gladden my heart;
15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16and your lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right .
16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
17Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the Lord all the day .
17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
18For if you should keep these things, you shall have posterity; and your hope shall not be removed.
18For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
19Hear , [my] son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of your heart .
19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:
20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22Listen, [my] son, to your father which begot you, and despise not [your mother] because she is grown old.
22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
24A righteous father brings up [his children] well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.
24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25Let your father and your mother rejoice over you, and let her that bore you be glad.
25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26[My] son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow .
27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.
28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
29Who [has] woe? who trouble? who [has] quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who [has] bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?
29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30Are not those of them that stay long at wine? [are] not [those] of them that haunt [the places] where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse [with them] openly.
30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle.
31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32But at last [such a one] stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.
33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.
34Yea, 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.
35And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
35They 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.