gltv - 23

gltv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you,

gltv@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite.

gltv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies.

gltv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not labor to be rich, cease from your own understanding.

gltv@Proverbs: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.

gltv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of one having an evil eye, and do not desire his delicacies,

gltv@Proverbs:23:7 @ for as he thinks in his heart, so is he! He says to you, Eat and drink, but his heart is not with you.

gltv@Proverbs:23:8 @ You shall vomit the bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant words.

gltv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

gltv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not move the old landmark, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless,

gltv@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Redeemer is mighty, He will contend for their cause with you.

gltv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Bring your heart in for instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

gltv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

gltv@Proverbs:23:14 @ You shall beat him with the rod, and you shall deliver him from Sheol.

gltv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even I.

gltv@Proverbs:23:16 @ And my reins shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.

gltv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but only be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

gltv@Proverbs:23:18 @ For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope shall not be cut off.

gltv@Proverbs:23:19 @ My son, hear you, and be wise, and advance your heart in the way.

gltv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with flesh gluttons to themselves,

gltv@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe one with rags.

gltv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Listen to your father, this one sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

gltv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth, and sell it not, also wisdom, and instruction and understanding.

gltv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise one shall even be glad in him.

gltv@Proverbs:23:25 @ Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.

gltv@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give Me your heart, and let your eyes watch My ways.

gltv@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep pit, and a strange woman is a narrow well.

gltv@Proverbs:23:28 @ Surely she lies in wait, as for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.

gltv@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe, who sorrow? Who has contentions, who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of eyes?

gltv@Proverbs:23:30 @ those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

gltv@Proverbs: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,

gltv@Proverbs:23:32 @ at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like a basilisk.

gltv@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;

gltv@Proverbs: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,

gltv@Proverbs: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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