| 章 |
| 23:1 |
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which [is] before thee,
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| 23:2 |
And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou [art] a man of appetite.
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| 23:3 |
Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it [is] lying food.
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| 23:4 |
Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
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| 23:5 |
For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
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| 23:6 |
Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,
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| 23:7 |
For as he hath thought in his soul, so [is] he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart [is] not with thee.
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| 23:8 |
Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that [are] sweet.
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| 23:9 |
In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
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| 23:10 |
Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
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| 23:11 |
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
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| 23:12 |
Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
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| 23:13 |
Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
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| 23:14 |
Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.
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| 23:15 |
My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
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| 23:16 |
And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
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| 23:17 |
Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
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| 23:18 |
For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
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| 23:19 |
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
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| 23:20 |
Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
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| 23:21 |
For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
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| 23:22 |
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
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| 23:23 |
Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
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| 23:24 |
The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.
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| 23:25 |
Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
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| 23:26 |
Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.
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| 23:27 |
For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a strait pit.
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| 23:28 |
She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
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| 23:29 |
Who hath wo? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
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| 23:30 |
Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
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| 23:31 |
See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
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| 23:32 |
Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
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| 23:33 |
Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
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| 23:34 |
And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.
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| 23:35 |
`They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'
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