< Proverbs 23 >
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
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 thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
(¿ 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 Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
May not you eat [the] food of a [person] evil of eye and may not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his.
7 For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
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 Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
10 Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into 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 mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
May not you withhold from a youth discipline for you will strike him with the rod not he will die.
14 thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol. (Sheol )
You with the rod you will strike him and life his from Sheol you will deliver. (Sheol )
15 My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
16 and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
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 result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy 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 Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of 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 let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For [is] a pit deep a prostitute and [is] a well narrow a foreign [woman].
28 She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
29 Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of 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 — They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth 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 at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon 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 have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”
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.