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Proverbs - ch 23 v 1 - 20
- When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
- put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
- Don't be desirous of his dainties, seeing they are deceitful food.
- Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
- Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
- for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
- The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
- Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
- for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
- Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
- Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
- Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.
- My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:
- yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.
- Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.
- Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
- Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
- Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
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