Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what 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 the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.
May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.
(¿ 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 Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.
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 though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: 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 Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
10 Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
11 For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall 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 sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
16 And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually.
May not it be jealous heart of your sinners that except in [the] fear of Yahweh all the day.
18 For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.
For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.
Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
23 Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy 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 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.
Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
27 For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
For [is] a pit deep a prostitute and [is] a well narrow a foreign [woman].
28 Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
29 To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the 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 Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.
To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.
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 ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste.
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 haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.
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.
