Proverbs:23:1-24
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When you sit down to eat with a ruler ,
Consider carefully what is before you ;
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And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite .
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Do not desire his delicacies ,
For they are deceptive food .
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Do not overwork to be rich ;
Because of your own understanding ,
cease !
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Will you set your eyes on that which is not ?
For riches certainly make themselves wings ;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven .
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Do not eat the bread of a miser ,
Nor desire his delicacies ;
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For as he thinks in his heart ,
so is he . "
Eat and drink !"
he says to you ,
But his heart is not with you .
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The morsel you have eaten ,
you will vomit up ,
And waste your pleasant words .
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Do not speak in the hearing of a fool ,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words .
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Do not remove the ancient landmark ,
Nor enter the fields of the fatherless ;
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For their Redeemer is mighty ;
He will plead their cause against you .
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Apply your heart to instruction ,
And your ears to words of knowledge .
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Do not withhold correction from a child ,
For if you beat him with a rod ,
he will not die .
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You shall beat him with a rod ,
And deliver his soul from hell .
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My son ,
if your heart is wise ,
My heart will rejoice--indeed ,
I myself ;
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Yes ,
my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things .
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Do not let your heart envy sinners ,
But be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day ;
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For surely there is a hereafter ,
And your hope will not be cut off .
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Hear ,
my son ,
and be wise ;
And guide your heart in the way .
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Do not mix with winebibbers ,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat ;
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For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty ,
And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags .
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Listen to your father who begot you ,
And do not despise your mother when she is old .
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Buy the truth ,
and do not sell it ,
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding .
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The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice ,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him .
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