1890 Darby's Translation of the Holy Scriptures (DBY)
Proverbs 23
1 From this chapter to the five and twentieth are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.
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23:1 ¶
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
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23:2
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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23:3
Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
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23:4
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
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23:5
wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
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23:6
Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
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23:7
For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
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23:8
Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
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23:9
Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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23:11
for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
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23:12
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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23:13
Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
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23:14
thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
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23:15
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
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23:16
and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
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23:17
Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
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23:18
for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
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23:19
Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
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23:20
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
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23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
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23:22
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
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23:24
The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:
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23:25
let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
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23:26
My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
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23:27
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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23:28
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
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23:29
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
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23:30
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
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23:31
Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
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23:32
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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23:33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
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23:34
and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:
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23:35
''They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''