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Proverbs Chapter 23
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1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
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2 put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
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3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
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4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
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6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
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7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
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8 You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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9 Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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10 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
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12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
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13 Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
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14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.
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15 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.
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16 Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
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17 Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
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18 Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
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19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
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20 Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;
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21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
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23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
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24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
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25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
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26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
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27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
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28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
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29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
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30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.
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31 Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
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32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
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33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
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34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
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35 “They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
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