Proverbs 23 : 1 (LXXEN)
If thou sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before thee:
Proverbs 23 : 2 (LXXEN)
and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such meats: but if thou art very insatiable,
Proverbs 23 : 3 (LXXEN)
desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
Proverbs 23 : 4 (LXXEN)
If thou art poor, measure not thyself with a rich man; but refrain thyself in thy wisdom.
Proverbs 23 : 5 (LXXEN)
If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle’s are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
Proverbs 23 : 6 (LXXEN)
Sup not with an envious man, neither desire thou his meats:
Proverbs 23 : 7 (LXXEN)
so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him:
Proverbs 23 : 8 (LXXEN)
for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.
Proverbs 23 : 9 (LXXEN)
Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words.
Proverbs 23 : 10 (LXXEN)
Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
Proverbs 23 : 11 (LXXEN)
for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs 23 : 12 (LXXEN)
Apply thine heart to instruction, and prepare thine ears for words of discretion.
Proverbs 23 : 13 (LXXEN)
Refrain not from chastening a child; for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 23 : 14 (LXXEN)
For thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from death.
Proverbs 23 : 15 (LXXEN)
Son, if thy heart be wise, thou shalt also gladden my heart;
Proverbs 23 : 16 (LXXEN)
and thy lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.
Proverbs 23 : 17 (LXXEN)
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day.
Proverbs 23 : 18 (LXXEN)
For if thou shouldest keep these things, thou shalt have posterity; and thine hope shall not be removed.
Proverbs 23 : 19 (LXXEN)
Hear, my son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of thine heart.
Proverbs 23 : 20 (LXXEN)
Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:
Proverbs 23 : 21 (LXXEN)
for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
Proverbs 23 : 22 (LXXEN)
Hearken, my son, to thy father which begot thee, and despise not thy mother because she is grown old.
Proverbs 23 : 24 (LXXEN)
A righteous father brings up his children well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.
Proverbs 23 : 25 (LXXEN)
Let thy father and thy mother rejoice over thee, and let her that bore thee be glad.
Proverbs 23 : 26 (LXXEN)
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs 23 : 27 (LXXEN)
For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.
Proverbs 23 : 28 (LXXEN)
For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.
Proverbs 23 : 29 (LXXEN)
Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who has bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?
Proverbs 23 : 30 (LXXEN)
Are not those of them that stay long at wine? are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them *Gr. in public walks openly.
Proverbs 23 : 31 (LXXEN)
For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, thou shalt afterwards go more naked than a pestle.
Proverbs 23 : 32 (LXXEN)
But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
Proverbs 23 : 33 (LXXEN)
Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.
Proverbs 23 : 34 (LXXEN)
And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.
Proverbs 23 : 35 (LXXEN)
And thou shalt say, They smote me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
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