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Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you,

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Proverbs 23:2

And put a knife to your throat If you are a person of great appetite.

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Proverbs 23:3

Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food.

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Proverbs 23:4

Do not weary yourself to gain wealth; Stop dwelling on it.

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Proverbs 23:5

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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Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a selfish person; Or desire his delicacies;

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Proverbs 23:7

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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Proverbs 23:8

You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten And waste your compliments.

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Proverbs 23:9

Do not speak to be heard by a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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Proverbs 23:10

Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

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Proverbs 23:11

For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.

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Proverbs 23:12

Apply your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:13

Do not withhold discipline from a child; Though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

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Proverbs 23:14

You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol.

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Proverbs 23:15

My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad,

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Proverbs 23:16

And my innermost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.

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Proverbs 23:17

Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the LORD always.

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Proverbs 23:18

Certainly there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.

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Proverbs 23:19

Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.

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Proverbs 23:20

Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

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Proverbs 23:21

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

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Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father, who fathered you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

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Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

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Proverbs 23:24

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

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Proverbs 23:25

Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

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Proverbs 23:26

Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes delight in my ways.

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Proverbs 23:27

For a prostitute is a deep pit, And a strange woman is a narrow well.

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Proverbs 23:28

Certainly she lurks as a robber, And increases the treacherous among mankind.

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Proverbs 23:29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has red eyes?

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Proverbs 23:30

Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine.

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Proverbs 23:31

Do not look at wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;

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Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake And stings like a viper.

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Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will say perverse things.

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Proverbs 23:34

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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Proverbs 23:35

"They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When will I awake? I will seek another drink."

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