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 what is before thee;
2 And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
For thou wilt put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man given to appetite!
3 May not (you crave *Q(K)*) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
Long not for his dainties. For they are deceitful meat.
4 May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
Toil not to become rich; Cease from this, thy 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 let thine eyes fly toward them? They are gone! For riches truly make to themselves wings; They fly away like the 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 not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, And long not for 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 heart, 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, thou shalt vomit up; And thou wilt have thrown away 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 avenger is mighty; He will maintain their cause against thee.
12 Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
Apply thy heart to 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 a child; If thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Beat him thyself with the rod, And thou shalt rescue him from the underworld. (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.
Yea, 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 continue thou 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 shall be a reward, And thine expectation 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 let thy heart go forward in the way!
20 May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
Be not thou among winebibbers, And 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 will 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 to thy father, who 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; Buy 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 a righteous man shall greatly rejoice; Yea, he who begetteth a wise child shall have joy in 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; Yea, 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; Yea, a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
Like a robber she lieth in wait, 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 anxiety? Who wounds without cause? Who dimness 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 in 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 thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it 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 will look upon strange women, And thy heart will 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.
Yea, thou shalt be as one that lieth down in the midst of the sea, And as one 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 stricken me [[shalt thou say]], —I suffered no pain! They have beaten me, —I felt it not! When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
