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Proverbs 22

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| # Chapter 23
| When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
| And put a knife to thy throat, if thou art a man given to appetite.
| Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
| Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
| Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.
| Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties:
| For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
| The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
| Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
| Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
| For their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause with thee.
| Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.
| Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
| Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
| My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
| Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
| Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
| For surely there is an end; and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
| Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
| Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
| For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
| Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
| Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
| The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
| Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.
| My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.
| For a lewd woman is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
| She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
| Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
| They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
| Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
| At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
| Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
| And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
| They have stricken me, wilt thou 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.

Proverbs 24

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