Proverbs 23
1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
(¿ Do you cause to fly *Q(K)*) eyes your on it and there not [is] it for certainly it makes for itself wings like an eagle (it flies away *Q(K)*) the heavens.
6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
May not you eat [the] food of a [person] evil of eye and may not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his.
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
For - as he calculates in self his [is] so he eat and drink he says to you and heart his not [is] with you.
8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
11 for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
May not you withhold from a youth discipline for you will strike him with the rod not he will die.
You with the rod you will strike him and life his from Sheol you will deliver. (Sheol h7585)
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
May not it be jealous heart of your sinners that except in [the] fear of Yahweh all the day.
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
23 Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
(Certainly he rejoices *Q(k)*) [the] father of a righteous [son] (and [one who] begets *Q(K)*) a wise [son] (he rejoices *Q(K)*) in him.
25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
For [is] a pit deep a prostitute and [is] a well narrow a foreign [woman].
28 Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
[belongs] to Whom? woe [belongs] to whom? woe! [belong] to whom? (contentions *Q(K)*) [belongs] to whom? complaint [belong] to whom? wounds without cause [belongs] to whom? dullness of eyes.
30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
May not you see wine for it will be red if it will give (in the cup *Q(K)*) eye its it will go with smoothness.
32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
And you will be like [one who] lies down in [the] heart of [the] sea and like [one who] lies down at [the] top of a mast.
35 “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
They struck me not I am sick they beat me not I know when? will I awake I will repeat I will seek it again.
