Book 20 Proverbs Chapter 023
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| 023:001 | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
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| 023:002 | And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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| 023:003 | Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
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| 023:004 | Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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| 023:005 | Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
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| 023:006 | Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
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| 023:007 | For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
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| 023:008 | The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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| 023:009 | Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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| 023:010 | Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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| 023:011 | For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
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| 023:012 | Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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| 023:013 | Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
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| 023:014 | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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| 023:015 | My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
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| 023:016 | Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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| 023:017 | Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
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| 023:018 | For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
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| 023:019 | Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
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| 023:020 | Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
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| 023:021 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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| 023:022 | Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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| 023:023 | Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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| 023:024 | The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
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| 023:025 | Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
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| 023:026 | My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
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| 023:027 | For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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| 023:028 | She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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| 023:029 | Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
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| 023:030 | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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| 023:031 | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
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| 023:032 | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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| 023:033 | Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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| 023:034 | Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
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| 023:035 | They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. |