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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle! |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies; |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "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 little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless, |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad; |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the LORD all the time. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat, |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Acquire truth and do not sell it--wisdom, and discipline, and understanding. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways; |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes? |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things. |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging. |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35You will say, "They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink." |
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