1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)
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, thou shalt consider well, what is before thee;
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23:2
And shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art:
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23:3
Do not crave his dainties, for, the same, are deceitful food.
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23:4 ¶
Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
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23:5
Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.
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23:6 ¶
Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties;
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23:7
For, just as he hath thought in his own mind, so, he is: Eat and drink! he may say to thee, but, his heart, is not with thee.
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23:8
As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.
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23:9 ¶
In the ears of a dullard, do not speak, for he will despise the good sense of thy words.
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23:10 ¶
Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
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23:11
For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
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23:12 ¶
Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.
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23:13
Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest him with the rod, he shall not die:
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23:14
Thou, with the rod, shalt smite him, and, his soul from hades, shalt thou deliver.
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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
So shall my reins exult, when thy lips speak the things that are right.
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23:17 ¶
Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long;
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23:18
For surely there is a future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.
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23:19 ¶
Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.
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23:20
Do not be among them who tipple with wine,among them who are gluttons;
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23:21
For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!
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23:22
Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
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23:23
Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.
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23:24
Greatly shall exult, the father of a righteous man, and, he that begetteth a wise son, shall rejoice in him:
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23:25
Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.
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23:26
Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways;
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23:27
For, a deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown;
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23:28
Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
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23:29 ¶
Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness of eyes?
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23:30
They who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine.
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23:31
Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth down smoothly.
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23:32
Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
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23:33
Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:
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23:34
So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea,or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear:
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23:35
They smote meI felt no pain, They struck me downI noticed it not,When shall I wake up? I will go on, I will seek it, again!