Proverbs 23
1 If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
2 And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
3 May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
4 May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
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.
wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards 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.
Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
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.
For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8 Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
9 In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
12 Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 May not you withhold from a youth discipline for you will strike him with the rod not he will die.
Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
15 O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
16 So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
17 May not it be jealous heart of your sinners that except in [the] fear of Yahweh all the day.
Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
18 That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
20 May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
21 For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
22 Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
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.
The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:
25 May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
26 Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For [is] a pit deep a prostitute and [is] a well narrow a foreign [woman].
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
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.
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
30 To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
— They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try 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.
Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
32 End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward 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.
and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon 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.
— “They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”
