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Proverbs - ch 23 v 1 - 20
- When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
- And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
- Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
- Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
- Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
- Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
- For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
- The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
- Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
- Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
- For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
- Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
- Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
- Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
- My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
- And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
- Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
- For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
- Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
- Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
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