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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.” |
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