Proverbs 23
1 When you sit down for a meal with a ruler, look carefully at what is placed before you,
If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
2 and cut down if you have a big appetite.
And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 Don't be greedy for his fancy food, for it's offered with deceptive motives.
May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich—be wise enough not to bother!
May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 It disappears in the blink of an eye, suddenly growing wings and flying off into the sky like an eagle.
(¿ 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 Don't accept meal invitations from miserly people; don't be greedy for their fancy food,
May not you eat [the] food of a [person] evil of eye and may not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his.
7 for what they're thinking inside is what they really are. They say, “Come on, eat and drink!”—but in their minds they don't really care about 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'll vomit up the little pieces you've eaten, and your kind words of appreciation will be wasted.
Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 Don't talk to stupid people because they'll ridicule your wise words.
In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
10 Don't move ancient boundary markers, and don't encroach on fields belonging to orphans,
May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
11 for their Protector is powerful and he will plead their case against you.
For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Focus your mind on instruction; listen intently to words of knowledge.
Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 Don't keep from disciplining your children—a beating won't kill them.
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 you think wisely then I'll be happy;
O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
16 I'll be delighted when you say what's right.
So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 Don't think enviously of sinners, but always remember to honor the Lord,
May not it be jealous heart of your sinners that except in [the] fear of Yahweh all the day.
18 for there's definitely a future for you, and your hope will not be crushed.
That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 Pay attention, my son, and be wise; make sure your mind concentrates on following the right way.
Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 Don't join in with people who drink too much wine or who stuff themselves with meat.
May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 For people who get drunk and overeat lose all they've got, and they spend so much time dozing that all they have left to wear is rags.
For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Pay attention to your father, and don't disregard your mother when she's 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 don't sell it! Invest in wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 Children who do right make their fathers very happy; a wise son brings joy to his father.
(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 Make your father and mother happy; bring joy to her who gave birth to you.
May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 My son, give me your undivided attention, and cheerfully follow my example.
Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
27 A prostitute is like being trapped in a pit; an immoral woman is like getting stuck 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 ready to ambush men and make more of them unfaithful to their wives.
Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
29 Who's in trouble? Who's in pain? Who's arguing? Who's complaining? Who's injured for no reason? Who's got 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 spend a long time drinking wine, those who are always trying some new cocktail.
To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 Don't let the look of wine tempt you—how red it is, how it sparkles in the cup, how smooth it feels as it goes down.
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 serpent, it stings like a snake.
End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 You'll hallucinate, seeing strange things, and your confused mind will make you say all kinds of craziness.
Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 You'll stumble around like you're on the rolling ocean, you'll be tossed about like someone lying down at the top of a ship's mast, saying,
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 “People punched me, but it didn't hurt me; they beat me, but I didn't feel a thing. I've got to get up because I need 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.
