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Proverbs - ch 23 v 1 - 20
- When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
- and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
- Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
- Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
- wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
- Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
- For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
- Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
- Speak not in the ears of a foolish man, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
- Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
- Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
- thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
- My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
- and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
- Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
- for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
- Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
- Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
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