Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, thou shalt consider well, 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 shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art:
And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 Do not crave his dainties, for, the same, are deceitful food.
May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across 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 Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave 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, just as he hath thought in his own mind, so, he is: Eat and drink! he may say to 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 As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.
Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 In the ears of a dullard, do not speak, for he will despise the good sense of thy words.
In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
10 Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
11 For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.
Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest 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.
You with the rod you will strike him and life his from Sheol you will deliver. (Sheol h7585)
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 So shall my reins exult, when thy lips speak the things that are right.
So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long;
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, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.
That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.
Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 Do not be among them who tipple with wine, —among them who are gluttons;
May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!
For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
23 Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.
Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 Greatly shall exult, the father of a righteous man, and, he that begetteth a wise son, shall rejoice 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 Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.
May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, 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 deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown;
For [is] a pit deep a prostitute and [is] a well narrow a foreign [woman].
28 Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
29 Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness 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 who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine.
To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth 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 Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:
Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea, —or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear:
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 smote me—I felt no pain, They struck me down—I noticed it not, —When shall I wake up? I will go on, I will seek it, 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.
