Proverbs:23:1-24:22

vw@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you;

vw@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

vw@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

vw@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not overwork to be rich; cease from your own understanding.

vw@Proverbs:23:5 @ Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away like an eagle into the heavens.

vw@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods;

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

vw@Proverbs:23:8 @ The morsel you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and spoil your pleasant words.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not remove the ancient landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;

vw@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Redeemer is mighty; He shall plead their case against you.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold correction from a lad, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

vw@Proverbs:23:14 @ You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from Sheol.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:16 @ Yea, my heart shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.

vw@Proverbs:23:17 @ Do not let your heart envy sinners; but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day long.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

vw@Proverbs:23:20 @ Do not be among those who are heavy drinkers of wine, or among gluttons for flesh;

vw@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and slumber shall clothe a man with rags.

vw@Proverbs:23:22 @ Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who begets a wise child shall be glad because of him.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give Me your heart, and let your eyes take pleasure in observing My ways.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:28 @ She also lies in wait as for prey, and increases treachery among men.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:30 @ Those who linger long at the wine, those who go in search of mixed wine.

vw@Proverbs:23:31 @ Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives off bubbles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly.

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

vw@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes will see strange things and your heart will speak perversities.

vw@Proverbs:23:34 @ Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast, saying:

vw@Proverbs:23:35 @ They struck me, but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When I awake, I will ask for more; to do it again.

vw@Proverbs:24:1 @ Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them.

vw@Proverbs:24:2 @ For their heart devises violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

vw@Proverbs:24:3 @ Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

vw@Proverbs:24:4 @ and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

vw@Proverbs:24:5 @ A wise man is strong; yes, a man of knowledge increases strength.

vw@Proverbs:24:6 @ For by wise counsel you shall wage war; and in a multitude of counselors is safety.

vw@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate.

vw@Proverbs:24:8 @ He who plots to do evil shall be called a master of evil plots.

vw@Proverbs:24:9 @ The wicked devices of foolishness is sin; and the scorner is an abomination to men.

vw@Proverbs:24:10 @ If you faint in the day of distress, your strength is small.

vw@Proverbs:24:11 @ If you refrain from delivering those being led away to death, those about to die;

vw@Proverbs:24:12 @ if you say, Behold, we did not know it; does not He who ponders the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He not know it? And shall He not repay to a man according to his deeds?

vw@Proverbs:24:13 @ My son, eat honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste.

vw@Proverbs:24:14 @ So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul; when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.

vw@Proverbs:24:15 @ O wicked one, do not lie in wait at the dwelling of the righteous; do not assault his resting place;

vw@Proverbs:24:16 @ for a just man may fall seven times, and rise up again; but the wicked shall stumble into evil.

vw@Proverbs:24:17 @ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

vw@Proverbs:24:18 @ lest Jehovah see it, and it displease Him, and He turns away His wrath from him.

vw@Proverbs:24:19 @ Do not fret yourself because of evildoers, nor be envious of the wicked;

vw@Proverbs:24:20 @ for there shall not be a posterity to the evil; the lamp of the wicked shall be extinguished.

vw@Proverbs:24:21 @ My son, fear Jehovah and the king; and do not fellowship with those who are given to change;

vw@Proverbs:24:22 @ for their disaster shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?

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