Proverbs 23
1 If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
If you sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before you:
2 And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
and apply your hand, knowing that it behoves you to prepare such [meats]: but if you are very insatiable,
3 May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
4 May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man; but refrain yourself in your 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.
If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
6 May not you eat [the] food of a [person] evil of eye and may not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his.
Sup not with an envious man, neither desire you his 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.
so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel with him:
8 Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
for he will vomit it up, and spoil your fair words.
9 In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at your wise 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 landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
11 For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.
12 Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
Apply your heart to instruction, and prepare your ears for words of discretion.
13 May not you withhold from a youth discipline for you will strike him with the rod not he will die.
Refrain not from chastening a child; for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death. (Sheol h7585)
15 O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
Son, if your heart be wise, you shall also gladden my heart;
16 So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
and your lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.
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.
18 That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
For if you should keep these things, you shall have posterity; and your hope shall not be removed.
19 Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
Hear, [my] son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of your heart.
20 May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:
21 For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
22 Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
Listen, [my] son, to your father which begot you, and despise not [your mother] because she is grown old.
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.
A righteous father brings up [his children] well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.
25 May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
Let your father and your mother rejoice over you, and let her that bore you be glad.
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 strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.
28 Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.
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 trouble? who [has] quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who [has] bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?
30 To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
Are not those of them that stay long at wine? [are] not [those] of them that haunt [the places] where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse [with them] openly.
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.
For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle.
32 End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
But at last [such a one] stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
33 Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall 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.
And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.
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.
And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
