Proverbs 23

1: When you sit down to dine with a ruler, keep in mind who is before you;

2: And put a knife to your throat if you have a ravenous appetite.

3: Do not desire his delicacies; they are deceitful food.

4: Toil not to gain wealth, cease to be concerned about it;

5: While your glance flits to it, it is gone! for assuredly it grows wings, like the eagle that flies toward heaven.

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12: Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge.

13: Withhold not chastisement from a boy; if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

14: Beat him with the rod, and you will save him from the nether world.

15: My son, if your heart be wise, my own heart also will rejoice;

16: And my inmost being will exult, when your lips speak what is right.

17: Let not your heart emulate sinners, but be zealous for the fear of the Lord always;

18: For you will surely have a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

19: Hear, my son and be wise, and guide your heart in the right way.

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22: Listen to your father who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

23: Get the truth and sell it not~wisdom, instruction and understanding.

24: The father of a just man will exult with glee; he who begets a wise son will have joy in him.

25: Let your father and mother have joy; let her who bore you exult.

26: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways.