Proverbs:23:1-24
rsv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;
rsv@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
rsv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
rsv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.
rsv@Proverbs:23:5 @ When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
rsv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;
rsv@Proverbs:23:7 @ for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. "Eat and drink!" he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
rsv@Proverbs:23:8 @ You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
rsv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
rsv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;
rsv@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
rsv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
rsv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
rsv@Proverbs:23:14 @ If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.
rsv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
rsv@Proverbs:23:16 @ My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
rsv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
rsv@Proverbs:23:18 @ Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
rsv@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.
rsv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
rsv@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
rsv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
rsv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
rsv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
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