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Proverbs 23

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;

2 And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

3 Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

7 For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

11 For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

12 Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

13 Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

14 Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld

15 My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

16 And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

17 Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;

18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way

20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed

22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

23 Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

24 The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 3 When thou sittest to dine with a moshel (ruler), consider diligently what is before thee,

2 And put a sakin (knife) to thy throat, if thou be a ba’al nefesh (man given to gluttony).

3 Be not desirous of his delicacies, for they are lechem kezavim (deceitful food).

4 Overwork not to get rich; cease from thine own binah (understanding).

5 Wilt thou let thine eynayim fly after that which is not? For such [wealth] certainly sprouts kenafayim (wings); they fly away as a nesher (eagle) toward Shomayim.

6 Eat thou not the lechem of him that hath a rah ayin (evil eye, i.e., a miser), neither desire thou his delicacies;

7 For as he reckoneth in his nefesh, so is he. Eat and drink, saith he to thee, but his lev is not with thee.

8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy pleasant devarim.

9 Speak not in the oznayim of a kesil (fool), for he will despise the seichel of thy words.

10 Remove not the gevul olam (ancient landmark); and enter not into the sadot of the yetomim (fatherless ones, orphans),

11 For their Go’el is chazak (strong); He shall plead their cause against thee.

12 Apply thine lev unto musar, and thine oznayim to the words of da’as.

13 Withhold not musar (correction) from the na’ar (child), for if thou spank him with the shevet, he shall not die.

14 Thou shalt spank him with the shevet, and shalt save his nefesh from Sheol.

15 Beni (my son), if thine lev be chacham, my own lev shall have simchah.

16 Indeed, my inmost being shall rejoice, when thy sfatayim (lips) speak meisharim (upright things).

17 Let not thine lev envy chatta’im, but be thou in the Yirat Hashem kol hayom.

18 For surely there is an acharit (latter end, future), and thine tikvah shall not be cut off.

19 Hear thou, beni (my son), and be chacham, and guide thine lev straight on the derech.

20 Be not among yayin gluttons; among gluttonous eaters of basar,

21 For the drunkard and the zolel (glutton) shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe with rags.

22 Pay heed unto avicha that fathered thee, and despise not immecha when she is old.

23 Buy emes, and sell it not; also chochmah, and musar, and binah (understanding).

24 Avi tzaddik (the father of a righteous one) shall greatly rejoice, and he that fathereth a chacham shall have simchah in him.

25 Avicha and immecha shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.

26 Beni (my son), give me thine lev, and let thine eynayim delight in my drakhim.

27 For a zonah is a deep pit, and a nokhriyah (strange woman, foreign woman, seductress, unfaithful wife) is a narrow well.

28 She also lieth in wait like a road bandit, and increaseth the bogedim (unfaithful) among adam (mankind).

29 Who hath oy (woe)? Who hath sorrow? Who hath strifes? Who hath complaint? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath bloodshot eynayim?

30 They that tarry long at the yayin, they that turn in to sample mixed wine.

31 Stare not thou into the yayin when it is red, when it sparkles in the kos (cup), when it goeth down smoothly.

32 At the acharit (latter end, future) it biteth like a nachash, and stingeth with venomous poisons like a viper.

33 Thine eynayim shall behold zarot (strange women), and thine lev shall utter perverse things.

34 Indeed, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the lev yam (heart of the sea), or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I felt it not. Mosai (when) shall I awake? I will seek yet another drink.