web Proverbs:23:1-24
web@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
web@Proverbs:23:2 @ put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
web@Proverbs:23:3 @ Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
web@Proverbs:23:4 @ Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
web@Proverbs:23:5 @ Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
web@Proverbs:23:6 @ Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
web@Proverbs:23:7 @ for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
web@Proverbs:23:8 @ The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
web@Proverbs:23:9 @ Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
web@Proverbs:23:10 @ Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
web@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
web@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
web@Proverbs:23:13 @ Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
web@Proverbs:23:14 @ Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}.
web@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:
web@Proverbs:23:16 @ yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.
web@Proverbs:23:17 @ Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.
web@Proverbs:23:18 @ Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
web@Proverbs:23:19 @ Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
web@Proverbs:23:20 @ Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
web@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
web@Proverbs:23:22 @ Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
web@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
web@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.