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Proverbs 23
When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently
what is set before thy face.
And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou
have thy soul in thy own power.
Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread
of deceit.
Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not
have: because they shall make themselves wings like
those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh
that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say
to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up:
and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise
the instruction of thy speech.
Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into
the field of the fatherless:
For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge
their cause against thee.
Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears
to words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike
him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul
from hell.
My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice
with thee:
And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak
what is right.
Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear
of the Lord all the day long:
Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and
thy expectation shall not be taken away.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in
the way.
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their
revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that
club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall
be clothed with rags.
Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise
not thy mother when she is old.
Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction,
and understanding.
The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath
begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her
rejoice that bore thee.
My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my
ways.
For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is
a narrow pit.
She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom
she shall see unwary, she will kill.
Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions?
who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause?
who hath redness of eyes?
Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study
to drink of their cups.
Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour
thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will
spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall
utter perverse things.
And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the
sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.
And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not
sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when
shall I awake, and find wine again?
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