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 him that 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; seeing they are deceitful food.
4 May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
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 riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
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 bread 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 one that hath reckoned within himself, so is he: 'Eat and drink', saith he to 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.
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose 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 fool; 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 strong; He will plead their cause with 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 though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world. (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 will be glad, even mine;
16 So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
Yea, my reins will rejoice, 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 in the fear of the LORD all the day;
18 That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
For surely there is a future; and thy hope shall not be cut off.
19 Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
20 May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous 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 shall clothe a man 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 begot 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; also wisdom, and instruction, 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.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wise child will 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 be glad, 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 harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien 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 faithless 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 crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath 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 thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth 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 a basilisk.
33 Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter confused 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.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth 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 struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.'
