Interlinear Bible - Proverbs 23

1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you,

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2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite.

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3 Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food.

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4 Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it

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5 When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

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6 Do not eat the bread of a selfish * man, Or desire his delicacies;

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7 For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you.

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8 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.

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9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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10 Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

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11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.

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12 Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge.

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13 Do not hold back discipline from the child, although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

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14 You shall strike him with the rod and rescue his soul from Sheol

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15 My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad;

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16 And my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.

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17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the LORD always *.

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18 Surely * there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.

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19 Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way

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20 Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

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21 For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags

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22 Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

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23 Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

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24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.

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25 Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

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26 Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes delight in my ways.

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27 For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

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28 Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men.

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29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

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30 Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine.

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31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles * in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;

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32 At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.

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33 Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things.

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34 And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.

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35 "They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will seek another * drink."

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