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Proverbs
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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Proverbs 23 [Commentary] 
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When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is before you,
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And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.
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Do not desire his delicacies,
For it is deceptive food.
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Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
Cease from your consideration of it.
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When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
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Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;
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For as he thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, "Eat and drink!"
But his heart is not with you.
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You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten,
And waste your compliments.
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Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,
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For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their case against you.
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Apply your heart to discipline
And your ears to words of knowledge.
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Do not hold back discipline from the child,
Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
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You shall strike him with the rod
And rescue his soul from Sheol.
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My son, if your heart is wise,
My own heart also will be glad;
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And my inmost being will rejoice
When your lips speak what is right.
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Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But live in the fear of the LORD always.
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Surely there is a future,
And your hope will not be cut off.
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Listen, my son, and be wise,
And direct your heart in the way.
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Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
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For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
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Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
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Buy truth, and do not sell it,
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
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The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.
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Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
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Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes delight in my ways.
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For a harlot is a deep pit
And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.
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Surely she lurks as a robber,
And increases the faithless among men.
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
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Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.
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Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;
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At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.
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Your eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things.
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And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.
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"They struck me, but I did not become ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink."
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