Proverbs 23 : 1 (NET)
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you,
Proverbs 23 : 2 (NET)
and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.
Proverbs 23 : 3 (NET)
Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Proverbs 23 : 4 (NET)
Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Proverbs 23 : 5 (NET)
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
Proverbs 23 : 6 (NET)
Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;
Proverbs 23 : 7 (NET)
for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
Proverbs 23 : 8 (NET)
you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.
Proverbs 23 : 9 (NET)
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23 : 10 (NET)
Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
Proverbs 23 : 11 (NET)
for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.
Proverbs 23 : 12 (NET)
Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23 : 13 (NET)
Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 23 : 14 (NET)
If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.
Proverbs 23 : 15 (NET)
My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;
Proverbs 23 : 16 (NET)
my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
Proverbs 23 : 17 (NET)
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the LORD all the time.
Proverbs 23 : 18 (NET)
For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 23 : 19 (NET)
Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.
Proverbs 23 : 20 (NET)
Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,
Proverbs 23 : 21 (NET)
because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
Proverbs 23 : 22 (NET)
Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23 : 23 (NET)
Acquire truth and do not sell it� wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
Proverbs 23 : 24 (NET)
The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.
Proverbs 23 : 25 (NET)
May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 23 : 26 (NET)
Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;
Proverbs 23 : 27 (NET)
for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.
Proverbs 23 : 28 (NET)
Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
Proverbs 23 : 29 (NET)
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes?
Proverbs 23 : 30 (NET)
Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.
Proverbs 23 : 31 (NET)
Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Proverbs 23 : 32 (NET)
Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
Proverbs 23 : 33 (NET)
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
Proverbs 23 : 34 (NET)
And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.
Proverbs 23 : 35 (NET)
You will say, "They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink."
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