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Proverbs 23

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
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2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
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3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
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4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
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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.
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6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
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7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you.
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8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
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9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
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12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
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13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
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14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
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15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
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16 Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
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17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
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18 For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
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19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
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20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
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21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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22 Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
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23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.
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25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.
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26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
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27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
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29 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
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30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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31 Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
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32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
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33 Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
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34 Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast.
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35 They have stricken me, shall you 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.
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