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Proverbs - ch 23 v 1 - 20
- When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which `is' before thee,
- And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou `art' a man of appetite.
- Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it `is' lying food.
- Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
- For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
- Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,
- For as he hath thought in his soul, so `is' he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart `is' not with thee.
- Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that `are' sweet.
- In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
- Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
- For their Redeemer `is' strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
- Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
- Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
- Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.
- My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
- And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
- Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
- For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
- Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
- Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
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