Proverbs 23:1-11 ▼

1 If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee.

2 And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

3 Thou shalt not long for his dainties: and it is the bread of lies.

4 Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.

5 Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

6 Thou shalt not eat the bread of an evil eye, and ye shall not long for its dainties:

7 Like him estimating evil in his soul, so is he: Eat and drink, he will say to thee; and his heart not with thee.

8 Thy morsel which thou didst eat thou shalt vomit forth and destroy thy pleasant words.

9 In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.

10 Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:

11 For he redeeming them, he is strong; he will contend their contention with thee.