< Proverbs 23 >
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, Diligently consider that which [is] before you,
If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
2 And you have put a knife to your throat, If you [are] a man of appetite.
And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.
May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 Do not labor to make wealth, Cease from your own understanding, Do you cause your eyes to fly on it? Then it is not.
May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 For wealth makes wings to itself, It flies to the heavens as 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 Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to 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 as he has thought in his soul, so he [is]. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, And 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 vomit up your morsel you have eaten, And have marred your words that [are] sweet.
Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on 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 remove a border of ancient times, And do not enter into 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 pleads their cause with you.
For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Bring your heart to instruction, And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a youth, When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
May not you withhold from a youth discipline for you will strike him with the rod not he will die.
14 You strike him with a rod, And you 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 your heart has been wise, My heart rejoices, even mine,
O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
16 And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.
So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.
May not it be jealous heart of your sinners that except in [the] fear of Yahweh all the day.
18 For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off.
That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 Hear, my son, and be wise, And make your heart blessed in the way,
Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 Do not become drunk with wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 For the drunkard and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clothes with rags.
For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Listen to your father, who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
23 Buy truth, and do not sell, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoices 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 Your father and your mother rejoice, Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 Give, my son, your heart to me, And let your eyes watch my ways.
Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
27 For a harlot [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, as catching prey, lies in wait, And she increases the treacherous 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 complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has 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 Those lingering by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 Do not see wine when it shows itself red, When it gives its color in the cup, It goes up and down through the upright.
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 Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, And it stings as a viper.
End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 Your eyes see strange women, And your heart speaks perverse things.
Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down 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, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I 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.