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When you sit to eat with a ruler,
Consider carefully
1who is before you;
Prov. 23
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And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of
great appetite.
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Do not desire his delicacies,
For they are deceitful food.
Prov. 23
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Do not weary yourself to become
arich;
Cease from your consideration
of it.
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When you set your eyes upon it, it is gone;
For
awealth certainly makes itself wings,
Like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
Prov. 23
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Do not eat the bread of one who is envious,
And do not desire his delicacies;
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For as he thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, Eat and drink;
But his heart is not with you.
Prov. 23
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You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten,
And waste your pleasant words.
Prov. 23
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aDo not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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aDo not remove the ancient boundary marker,
Or go into the fields of the fatherless;
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For their
aRedeemer is strong;
He will plead their cause against you.
Prov. 23
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Apply your heart to instruction,
And your ears to words of knowledge.
Prov. 23
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Do not withhold
acorrection from a child;
If you beat him with the rod, he will not die.
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If you beat him with the rod,
You will deliver his soul from
aSheol.
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My son, if your heart is wise,
My own heart will also rejoice;
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My inward parts will also exult,
When your lips speak right things.
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Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But
live in the fear of Jehovah all day long;
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For surely there is a latter end,
And your hope will not be cut off.
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Listen, my son, and be wise,
And direct your heart in the way.
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Do not be among those who get drunk with wine,
Among gluttonous eaters of flesh;
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For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe
them with rags.
Prov. 23
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Listen to your
afather who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
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Buy atruth, and do not sell
it;
Buy wisdom and instruction and understanding.
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The father of the righteous man will greatly exult,
And he who begets a wise
child will rejoice in him.
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Let your father and your mother rejoice,
And let her who bore you exult.
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My son, give me your heart,
And let your eyes
1observe my ways.
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For a harlot is a deep pit,
And an adulteress is a narrow well.
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Indeed, she lies in wait as a robber,
And increases
the number of the treacherous among men.
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions?
Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness
of eyes?
Prov. 23
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Those who linger late over
awine,
Those who go to seek out mixed wines.
Prov. 23
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Do not look upon the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;
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In the end it bites like a serpent,
And stings like an adder.
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Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things;
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And you will be like one who lies down while at sea,
Or like one who lies down at the top of a mast.
Prov. 23
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They struck me,
you will say, but I was not hurt;
They beat me,
but I did not feel
it;
When will I awake? I will seek another drink.
