PR-23:1  When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider

diligently what [is]

before thee:

PR-23:2  And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given

to appetite.

PR-23:3  Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are]

deceitful meat.

PR-23:4  Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

PR-23:5  Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for

[riches]

certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle

toward heaven.

PR-23:6  Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye,

neither desire

thou his dainty meats:

PR-23:7  For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and

drink, saith he

to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.

PR-23:8  The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,

and lose thy

sweet words.

PR-23:9  Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise

the wisdom of

thy words.

PR-23:10  Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the

fields of the

fatherless:

PR-23:11  For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their

cause with

thee.

PR-23:12  Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to

the words of

knowledge.

PR-23:13  Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou

beatest him

with the rod, he shall not die.

PR-23:14  Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver

his soul from

hell.

PR-23:15  My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice,

 even mine.

PR-23:16  Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right

things.

PR-23:17  Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the

fear of the

LORD all the day long.

PR-23:18  For surely there is an end; and thine expectation

shall not be cut

off.

PR-23:19  Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart

in the way.

PR-23:20  Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of

flesh:

PR-23:21  For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:

 and

drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.

PR-23:22  Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise

not thy mother

when she is old.

PR-23:23  Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and

instruction,

and understanding.

PR-23:24  The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and

he that

begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.

PR-23:25  Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that

bare thee

shall rejoice.

PR-23:26  My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes

observe my ways.

PR-23:27  For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman

[is] a narrow

pit.

PR-23:28  She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth

the

transgressors among men.

PR-23:29  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?

who hath

babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of

eyes?

PR-23:30  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek

mixed wine.

PR-23:31  Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it

giveth his

colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.

PR-23:32  At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth

like an adder.

PR-23:33  Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart

shall utter

perverse things.

PR-23:34  Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst

of the sea, or

as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

PR-23:35  They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not

sick; they

have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I

will seek it yet

again.

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