Proverbios 23

¹ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, him that is before thee; ² __a__FOOTNOTE__a__ Proverbs 23:2 Or, For thou wilt put __b__FOOTNOTE__b__ And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite. ³ Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food. ⁴ Weary not thyself to be rich; from thine own wisdom. ⁵ __a__FOOTNOTE__a__ Proverbs 23:5 Or, Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone: Hebrew Shall thine eyes fly upon it, and it is not? __b__FOOTNOTE__b__ Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven. ⁶ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties: ⁷ For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee. ⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words. ⁹ Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words. ¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: ¹¹ For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee. ¹² Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge. ¹³ Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol. ¹⁵ My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine: ¹⁶ Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things. ¹⁷ Let not thy heart envy sinners; be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long: ¹⁸ For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off. ¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way. ²⁰ Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: ²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; a man with rags. ²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old. ²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea , wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. ²⁴ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him. ²⁵ Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice. ²⁶ My son, give me thy heart; delight in my ways. ²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit. ²⁸ Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men. ²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath __a__FOOTNOTE__a__ Proverbs 23:29 Hebrew Alas! __b__FOOTNOTE__b__ sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? __a__FOOTNOTE__a__ Proverbs 23:29 Or, darkness __b__FOOTNOTE__b__ redness of eyes? ³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine; seek out mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, goeth down smoothly: ³² At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. ³⁵ They have stricken me, shalt thou say , and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.