< Proverbs 23 >
1 If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
2 And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 (¿ 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 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 calculates in self his [is] so he eat and drink he says to you and heart his not [is] with you.
8 Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
10 May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
11 For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 May not you withhold from a youth discipline for you will strike him with the rod not he will die.
14 You with the rod you will strike him and life his from Sheol you will deliver. (Sheol )
15 O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
16 So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 May not it be jealous heart of your sinners that except in [the] fear of Yahweh all the day.
18 That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
23 Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 (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 May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
27 For [is] a pit deep a prostitute and [is] a well narrow a foreign [woman].
28 Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
29 [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 To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 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 End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 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 not I am sick they beat me not I know when? will I awake I will repeat I will seek it again.
