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Proverbs - ch 23 v 1 - 20
- When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.
- And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
- Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
- Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
- Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
- Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
- Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
- The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
- Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
- Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
- For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
- Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
- Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
- Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
- My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
- And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
- Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
- Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
- Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
- Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
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