gltv - Proverbs:23:1-24

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.