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1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, discern carefully what is before your face, 2 and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite. 3 You should not mark out his delicacies, for it is bread of lies. 4 Do not toil to become rich, cease from your own understanding. 5 Will you make your eyes fly onto it, and it is not there? For it certainly makes for itself wings like an eagle and flies away to the heavens! 6 Do not eat the bread of one evil of eye, and do not mark out his delicacies. 7 For like one who calculates in his soul, so is he—“Eat and drink,” he says to you, and his heart is not with you. 8 Your morsel that you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will ruin your pleasant words! 9 Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. 10 Do not remove a boundary of old, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless. 11 For their Redeemer is strong—He will contend their dispute against you. 12 You must bring your heart to discipline, and your ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. 14 You strike him with the rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol. 15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad—even I. 16 And my kidneys will exult at the speaking of uprightness by your lips. 17 Do not let your heart be jealous of the sinners, but rather in the fear of YHWH all the day. 18 For surely there is a posterity, and your hope will not be cut off. 19 Listen you, my son, and be wise, and let your heart walk straight in the way. 20 Not Be among those getting drunk on wine, among those being gluttons of flesh to themelves. 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will be dispossessed, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags. 22 Listen to your father, this one begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Acquire truth and do not sell it—wisdom, and discipline, and discernment. 24 The father of a righteous one will greatly rejoice, and the one begetting a wise son will be glad in him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad, and let she who bore you rejoice. Proverbs 23:1-25, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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