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Proverbs 23
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- 23:1 When thou
sittest to
eat with a
ruler,
consider
diligently what is
before thee:
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- 23:2 And
put a
knife to thy
throat, if thou be a man
given to
appetite.
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- 23:3 Be not
desirous of his
dainties: for they are
deceitful
meat.
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- 23:4
Labour not to be
rich:
cease from thine own
wisdom.
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- 23:5 Wilt thou
set
(8686) thine
eyes upon that which is not? for riches
certainly
make themselves
wings; they fly
away
(8799) as an
eagle toward
heaven.
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- 23:6
Eat thou not the
bread of him that hath an
evil
eye, neither
desire thou his dainty
meats:
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- 23:7 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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- 23:8 The
morsel which thou hast
eaten shalt thou vomit
up, and
lose thy
sweet
words.
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- 23:9
Speak not in the
ears of a
fool: for he will
despise the
wisdom of thy
words.
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- 23:10
Remove not the
old
landmark; and
enter not into the
fields of the
fatherless:
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- 23:11 For their
redeemer is
mighty; he shall
plead their
cause with thee.
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- 23:12
Apply thine
heart unto
instruction, and thine
ears to the
words of
knowledge.
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- 23:13
Withhold not
correction from the
child: for if thou
beatest him with the
rod, he shall not
die.
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- 23:14 Thou shalt
beat him with the
rod, and shalt
deliver his
soul from
hell.
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- 23:15 My
son, if thine
heart be
wise, my
heart shall
rejoice, even
mine.
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- 23:16 Yea, my
reins shall
rejoice, when thy
lips
speak right
things.
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- 23:17 Let not thine
heart
envy
sinners: but be thou in the
fear of the
LORD all the
day long.
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- 23:18 For surely there
is an
end; and thine
expectation shall not be cut
off.
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- 23:19
Hear thou, my
son, and be
wise, and
guide thine
heart in the
way.
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- 23:20 Be not among
winebibbers
*; among riotous
eaters of
flesh:
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- 23:21 For the
drunkard and the
glutton shall come to
poverty: and
drowsiness shall
clothe a man with
rags.
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- 23:22
Hearken unto thy
father that
begat thee, and
despise not thy
mother when she is
old.
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- 23:23
Buy the
truth, and
sell it not; also
wisdom, and
instruction, and
understanding.
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- 23:24 The
father of the
righteous shall
greatly
rejoice: and he that
begetteth a
wise child shall have
joy of him.
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- 23:25 Thy
father and thy
mother shall be
glad, and she that
bare thee shall
rejoice.
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- 23:26 My
son,
give me thine
heart, and let thine
eyes
observe
* my
ways.
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- 23:27 For a
whore is a
deep
ditch; and a strange
woman is a
narrow
pit.
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- 23:28 She also lieth in
wait as for a
prey, and
increaseth the
transgressors among
men.
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- 23:29 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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- 23:30 They that tarry
long at the
wine; they that
go to
seek mixed
wine.
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- 23:31
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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- 23:32 At the
last it
biteth like a
serpent, and
stingeth like an
adder.
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- 23:33 Thine
eyes shall
behold strange
women, and thine
heart shall
utter perverse
things.
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- 23:34 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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- 23:35 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.
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