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Proverbs 23

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, think carefully about who is before you.

2 If you have a big appetite, put a knife to your throat!

3 Don't be greedy for his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

4 Don't exhaust yourself in pursuit of wealth; be smart enough to desist

5 If you make your eyes rush at it, it's no longer there! For wealth will surely grow wings, like an eagle flying off to the sky.

6 Don't eat the food of a stingy man; don't be greedy for his delicacies.

7 For he is like someone who keeps accounts -"Eat! Drink!" he says to you, but he doesn't really mean it.

8 The little you eat you will vomit up, and your compliments will have been wasted.

9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will only despise the common sense in your words.

10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone or encroach on the land of the fatherless;

11 for their Redeemer is strong; he will take up their fight against you.

12 Apply your mind to discipline and your ears to words of knowledge.

13 Don't withhold discipline from a child -if you beat him with a stick, he won't die!

14 If you beat him with a stick, you will save him from Sh'ol

15 My son, if your heart is wise, then my own heart too is glad;

16 my inmost being rejoices when your lips say what is right.

17 Don't envy sinners, but follow the example of those who always fear God;

18 for then you will have a future; what you hope for will not be cut off.

19 You, my son: listen, be wise, and set your mind on the right way

20 Don't be one of those who guzzle wine or of those who eat meat to excess,

21 for both drunkard and glutton will become poor -drowsiness will clothe them with rags

22 Listen to your father, who gave you life; and don't despise your mother when she gets old.

23 Buy the truth, don't sell it, also wisdom, discipline and discernment.

24 A righteous person's father will be filled with joy; yes, he whose son is wise will rejoice in him.

25 So let your father and mother be glad; let her who gave you birth rejoice.

26 My son, give me your heart; let your eyes observe my ways.

27 A prostitute is a deep ditch, and a forbidden woman like a narrow well.

28 She lies in wait to snatch her prey and adds to the number of faithless men.

29 Who has misery? Who has regret? Who fights and complains all the time? Who gets bruised for no good reason? Who has bloodshot eyes?

30 Those who spend their time over wine, those always trying out mixed drinks.

31 Don't gaze at the red wine as it gives its color to the cup. It may glide down smoothly now;

32 but in the end, it bites like a serpent -yes, it strikes like a poisonous snake.

33 Your eyes will see peculiar things, your mind will utter nonsense.

34 You will feel as if lying on the waves of the sea or sprawled on top of the mast -

35 "They hit me, but I didn't feel it! They beat me up, and I didn't even know it! When will I wake up? . . . I'll go get another drink."

King James Version KJV

1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

7 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 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst 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 sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.