Proverbs 23:1-35 MEV

[1] When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; [2] and put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. [3] Be not desirous of his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. [4] Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom. [5] Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. [6] Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, neither desire his delicacies; [7] for as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. [8] The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, and lose your sweet words. [9] Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. [10] Do not remove the old landmark, nor enter the fields of the fatherless; [11] for their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause with you. [12] Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. [13] Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die. [14] You shall beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from death. [15] My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will rejoice-even mine. [16] Yes, my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak right things. [17] Do not let your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all day long; [18] for surely there is an end, and your expectation will not be cut off. [19] Hear, my son, and be wise; and guide your heart in the way. [20] Do not be among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of meat; [21] for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. [22] Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. [23] Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding. [24] The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise child will have joy of him. [25] Your father and your mother will be glad, and she who bore you will rejoice. [26] My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. [27] For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a seductress is a narrow pit. [28] She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men. [29] Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? [30] Those who tarry long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. [31] Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly; [32] at the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. [33] Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things. [34] Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies upon the top of a mast. [35] "They have stricken me," you will say, "and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it. When will I awake? I will seek it yet again."