Proverbs 23:1-35 LSV

[1] When you sit to eat with a ruler, || Diligently consider that which [is] before you, [2] And you have put a knife to your throat, || If you [are] a man of appetite. [3] Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food. [4] Do not labor to make wealth, || Cease from your own understanding, || Do you cause your eyes to fly on it? Then it is not. [5] For wealth makes wings to itself, || It flies to the heavens as an eagle. [6] Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, || And have no desire to his delicacies, [7] For as he has thought in his soul, so he [is]. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, || And his heart [is] not with you. [8] You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, || And have marred your words that [are] sweet. [9] Do not speak in the ears of a fool, || For he treads on the wisdom of your words. [10] Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into fields of the fatherless, [11] For their Redeemer [is] strong, || He pleads their cause with you. [12] Bring your heart to instruction, || And your ear to sayings of knowledge. [13] Do not withhold discipline from a youth, || When you strike him with a rod he does not die. [14] You strike him with a rod, || And you deliver his soul from Sheol. [15] My son, if your heart has been wise, || My heart rejoices, even mine, [16] And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly. [17] Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, || But—in the fear of YHWH all the day. [18] For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off. [19] Hear, my son, and be wise, || And make your heart blessed in the way, [20] Do not become drunk with wine, || Among gluttonous ones of flesh, [21] For the drunkard and glutton become poor, || And drowsiness clothes with rags. [22] Listen to your father, who begot you, || And do not despise your mother when she has become old. [23] Buy truth, and do not sell, || Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding, [24] The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, || The begetter of the wise rejoices in him. [25] Your father and your mother rejoice, || Indeed, she bearing you is joyful. [26] Give, my son, your heart to me, || And let your eyes watch my ways. [27] For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, || And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. [28] She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, || And she increases the treacherous among men. [29] Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? [30] Those lingering by the wine, || Those going in to search out mixed wine. [31] Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright. [32] Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper. [33] Your eyes see strange women, || And your heart speaks perverse things. [34] And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, || And as one lying down on the top of a mast. [35] “They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”