| 章 |
| 23:1 |
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;
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| 23:2 |
and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
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| 23:3 |
Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
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| 23:4 |
Do not toil to acquire wealth;be wise enough to desist.
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| 23:5 |
When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
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| 23:6 |
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;do not desire his delicacies;
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| 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.
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| 23:8 |
You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
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| 23:9 |
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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| 23:10 |
Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;
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| 23:11 |
for their Redeemer is strong;he will plead their cause against you.
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| 23:12 |
Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
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| 23:13 |
Do not withhold discipline from a child;if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
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| 23:14 |
If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.
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| 23:15 |
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
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| 23:16 |
My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
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| 23:17 |
Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
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| 23:18 |
Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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| 23:19 |
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.
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| 23:20 |
Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
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| 23:21 |
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
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| 23:22 |
Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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| 23:23 |
Buy truth, and do not sell it;buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
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| 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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| 23:25 |
Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice.
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| 23:26 |
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
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| 23:27 |
For a harlot is a deep pit;an adventuress is a narrow well.
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| 23:28 |
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
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| 23:29 |
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
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| 23:30 |
Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine.
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| 23:31 |
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
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| 23:32 |
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
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| 23:33 |
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
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| 23:34 |
You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
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| 23:35 |
'They struck me,' you will say, 'but I was not hurt;they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink.'
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