Proverbs:23

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* When thou sittest to eat with a ruler , consider well who is before thee ; * and put a knife to thy throat , if thou be a man given to appetite . * Be not desirous of his dainties ; for they are deceitful food . * Weary not thyself to become rich ; cease from thine own intelligence : * wilt thou set thine eyes upon it , it is gone ; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens . * Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye , neither desire thou his dainties . * For as he thinketh in his soul , so is he . Eat and drink ! will he say unto thee ; but his heart is not with thee . * Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up , and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words . * Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man ], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words . * Remove not the ancient landmark ; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless : * for their redeemer is mighty ; he will plead their cause against thee . * Apply thy heart unto instruction , and thine ears to the words of knowledge . * Withhold not correction from the child ; for [if ] thou beatest him with the rod , he shall not die : * thou shalt beat him with the rod , and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol . * My son , if thy heart be wise , my heart shall rejoice , even mine ; * and my reins shall exult , when thy lips speak right things . * Let not thy heart envy sinners , but [be thou ] in the fear of Jehovah all the day ; * for surely there is a result , and thine expectation shall not be cut off . * Thou , my son , hear and be wise , and direct thy heart in the way . * Be not among winebibbers , among riotous eaters of flesh . * For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty ; and drowsiness clotheth with rags . * Hearken unto thy father that begat thee , and despise not thy mother when she is old . * Buy the truth , and sell it not ; wisdom , and instruction , and intelligence . * The father of a righteous [man ] shall greatly rejoice , and he that begetteth a wise [son ] shall have joy of him : * let thy father and thy mother have joy , and let her that bore thee rejoice . * My son , give me thy heart , and let thine eyes observe my ways . * For a whore is a deep ditch ; and a strange woman is a narrow pit . * She also lieth in wait as a robber , and increaseth the treacherous among men . * Who hath woe ? Who hath sorrow ? Who contentions ? Who complaining ? Who wounds without cause ? Who redness of eyes ? * -- They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to try mixed wine . * Look not upon the wine when it is red , when it sparkleth in the cup , and goeth down smoothly : * at the last it biteth like a serpent , and stingeth like an adder . * Thine eyes shall behold strange women , and thy heart shall speak froward things ; * and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea , and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast : * -- ''They have smitten me , [and ] I am not sore ; they have beaten me , [and ] I knew it not . When shall I awake ? I will seek it yet again .''

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