Proverbs 23
1 If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
2 And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
And put a knife to your throat, if you 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 meat.
4 May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
Labor not to be rich: cease from your 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.
Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle 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 you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
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 thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
8 Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your 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 your words.
10 May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
Remove not the old 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 shall plead their cause with you.
12 Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
Apply your heart to instruction, and your 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 you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. (Sheol h7585)
15 O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your 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 your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
18 That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your 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 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.
Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your 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 shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.
26 Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *Q(K)*)
My son, give me your heart, and let your 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 lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors 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 has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has 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 seek 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 you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
32 End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
33 Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter 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.
Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on 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 stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
