drb Proverbs:23:1-24
drb@Proverbs:23:1 @When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.
drb@Proverbs:23:2 @And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
drb@Proverbs:23:3 @Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
drb@Proverbs:23:4 @Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
drb@Proverbs:23:5 @Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
drb@Proverbs:23:6 @Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
drb@Proverbs:23:7 @Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
drb@Proverbs:23:8 @The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
drb@Proverbs:23:9 @Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
drb@Proverbs:23:10 @Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
drb@Proverbs:23:11 @For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
drb@Proverbs:23:12 @Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
drb@Proverbs:23:13 @Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
drb@Proverbs:23:14 @Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
drb@Proverbs:23:15 @My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
drb@Proverbs:23:16 @And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
drb@Proverbs:23:17 @Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
drb@Proverbs:23:18 @Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away
drb@Proverbs:23:19 @Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
drb@Proverbs:23:20 @Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
drb@Proverbs:23:21 @Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
drb@Proverbs:23:22 @Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
drb@Proverbs:23:23 @Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
drb@Proverbs:23:24 @The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
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