nsb@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you.

nsb@Proverbs:23:2 @ Put a knife to your throat, if you are a man with a strong desire.

nsb@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not crave his delicacies for it is deceptive food.

nsb@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not exhaust yourself to get rich. Be wise and show restraint.

nsb@Proverbs:23:5 @ Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.

nsb@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a selfish man nor desire his delicacies.

nsb@Proverbs:23:7 @ Just as he thinks in his heart: »Eat and drink,« he says to you. But his heart is not with you.

nsb@Proverbs:23:8 @ You vomit the morsel you eat and waste your complements.

nsb@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak to a fool for he will despise your wise words.

nsb@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not remove the old landmark. And do not enter the field of the fatherless.

nsb@Proverbs:23:11 @ Their redeemer is mighty. He will plead their cause with you.

nsb@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge.

nsb@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die.

nsb@Proverbs:23:14 @ You will spank him with a stick and deliver him from death.

nsb@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will also rejoice!

nsb@Proverbs:23:16 @ Yes, my inmost being rejoices when you speak right things.

nsb@Proverbs:23:17 @ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but reverence Jehovah all day long.

nsb@Proverbs:23:18 @ Surely there is a future hope and you will not be disappointed.

nsb@Proverbs:23:19 @ Listen and be wise, my son, and direct your heart in the way.

nsb@Proverbs:23:20 @ Do not associate with drunkards or gluttons.

nsb@Proverbs:23:21 @ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

nsb@Proverbs:23:22 @ Listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old.

nsb@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth and do not sell it. Also buy wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

nsb@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice and he who gives birth to a wise child will receive joy from him.

nsb@Proverbs:23:25 @ Your father and your mother will be glad. She who bore you will rejoice.

nsb@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give me your heart and let your eyes keep my ways.

nsb@Proverbs:23:27 @ A prostitute is a deep pit. An adulterous wife is a well of tribulation.

nsb@Proverbs:23:28 @ She also lies in wait as for a victim, and increases the transgressors among men.

nsb@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

nsb@Proverbs:23:30 @ Those who stay long at the wine. They seek mixed wine.

nsb@Proverbs:23:31 @ Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

nsb@Proverbs:23:32 @ In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.

nsb@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes will see strange things and your heart will utter perverse things.

nsb@Proverbs:23:34 @ You will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea; like one who lies on top of a mast.

nsb@Proverbs:23:35 @ »They struck me but I did not become sick. They beat me and I did not feel it. When will I awake? I will seek drink yet again.«

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