Proverbs 23

1When you sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what before you: 2And put a knife to your throat, if you a man given to appetite. 3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they deceitful meat. 4Labour not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom. 5will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 6Eat you not the bread of an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats: 7For as he thinketh in his heart, so he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart not with you. 8The morsel you hast eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words. 9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words. 10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11For their redeemer mighty; he shall plead their cause with you. 12Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. 13Withhold not correction from the child: for you beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. 14you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. 15My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. 16yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things. 17Let not your heart envy sinners: but in the fear of the Yahuah all the day long. 18For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off. 19Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way. 20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe with rags. 22Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old. 23Buy the truth, and sell not; wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise shall have joy of him. 25your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice. 26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. 27For a whore a deep ditch; and a strange woman a narrow pit. 28She also lieth in wait as a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. 29Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes? 30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, it moveth itself aright. 32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things. 34yes, you shall be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35They have stricken me, I was not sick; they have beaten me, I felt not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.