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23:1When you sit to eat with a ruler, / Consider carefully who is before you; Compare
23:2And put a knife to your throat / If you are a man of great appetite. Compare
23:3Do not desire his delicacies, / For they are deceitful food. Compare
23:4Do not weary yourself to become rich; / Cease from your consideration of it. Compare
23:5When you set your eyes upon it, it is gone; / For wealth certainly makes itself wings, / Like an eagle that flies toward heaven. Compare
23:6Do not eat the bread of one who is envious, / And do not desire his delicacies; Compare
23:7For as he thinks within himself, so he is. / He says to you, Eat and drink; / But his heart is not with you. Compare
23:8You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten, / And waste your pleasant words. Compare
23:9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, / For he will despise the wisdom of your words. Compare
23:10Do not remove the ancient boundary marker, / Or go into the fields of the fatherless; Compare
23:11For their Redeemer is strong; / He will plead their cause against you. Compare
23:12Apply your heart to instruction, / And your ears to words of knowledge. Compare
23:13Do not withhold correction from a child; / If you beat him with the rod, he will not die. Compare
23:14If you beat him with the rod, / You will deliver his soul from Sheol. Compare
23:15My son, if your heart is wise, / My own heart will also rejoice; Compare
23:16My inward parts will also exult, / When your lips speak right things. Compare
23:17Do not let your heart envy sinners, / But live in the fear of Jehovah all day long; Compare
23:18For surely there is a latter end, / And your hope will not be cut off. Compare
23:19Listen, my son, and be wise, / And direct your heart in the way. Compare
23:20Do not be among those who get drunk with wine, / Among gluttonous eaters of flesh; Compare
23:21For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, / And drowsiness will clothe them with rags. Compare
23:22Listen to your father who begot you, / And do not despise your mother when she is old. Compare
23:23Buy truth, and do not sell it; / Buy wisdom and instruction and understanding. Compare
23:24The father of the righteous man will greatly exult, / And he who begets a wise child will rejoice in him. Compare
23:25Let your father and your mother rejoice, / And let her who bore you exult. Compare
23:26My son, give me your heart, / And let your eyes observe my ways. Compare
23:27For a harlot is a deep pit, / And an adulteress is a narrow well. Compare
23:28Indeed, she lies in wait as a robber, / And increases the number of the treacherous among men. Compare
23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? / Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness / of eyes? Compare
23:30Those who linger late over wine, / Those who go to seek out mixed wines. Compare
23:31Do not look upon the wine when it is red, / When it sparkles in the cup, / When it goes down smoothly; Compare
23:32In the end it bites like a serpent, / And stings like an adder. Compare
23:33Your eyes will see strange things, / And your heart will utter perverse things; Compare
23:34And you will be like one who lies down while at sea, / Or like one who lies down at the top of a mast. Compare
23:35They 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. Compare

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