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Proverbs 23
Proverbs 23
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
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When you sit to dine with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you,
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and put a knife to your throat if you be a man given to gluttony.
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Be not desirous of his delicacies, for they are deceitful food.
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Toil not to acquire wealth; cease from your own understanding.
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Will you let your eyes fly after that which is not? For such wealth certainly sprouts wings, flying away like an eagle to the heavens.
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Eat not the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his delicacies,
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for as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
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The morsel which you have eaten, you will vomit up, and lose your pleasant words.
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Speak not in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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Remove not the ancient landmark, nor enter the fields of the fatherless,
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for their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against you.
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Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge.
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Withhold not discipline from a child; if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
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You will strike him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.
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My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will indeed rejoice.
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My soul will exult when your lips speak what is right.
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Let not your heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
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Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
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Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
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for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.
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Listen to your father who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
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Buy truth, and sell it not; also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
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The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly, and he who begets a wise son will delight in him.
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Let your father and your mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
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My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
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For a prostitute is a deep pit; and an adulteress is a narrow well.
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She lies in wait like a road bandit, and increases the unfaithful among men.
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has bloodshot eyes?
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Those who linger long over the wine, those who turn in to try mixed wine.
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Stare not into the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
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In the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.
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Your eyes will behold strange women, and your heart will utter perverse things.
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You will be as he who lies down in the heart of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast.
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“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”
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