### World English Bible

Proverbs 22

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| # Chapter 23
#### 1 | When you sit to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently what is before you;
#### 2 | Put a knife to your throat, If you are a man given to appetite.
#### 3 | Don't be desirous of his dainties, Seeing they are deceitful food.
#### 4 | Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
#### 5 | Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
#### 6 | Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, And don't crave his delicacies:
#### 7 | For as he thinks about the cost, so he is. 'Eat and drink!' he says to you, But his heart is not with you.
#### 8 | The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.
#### 9 | Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
#### 10 | Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
#### 11 | For their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
#### 12 | Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.
#### 13 | Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
#### 14 | Punish him with the rod, And save his soul from Sheol.
#### 15 | My son, if your heart is wise, Then my heart will be glad, even mine:
#### 16 | Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right.
#### 17 | Don't let your heart envy sinners; But rather fear Yahweh all the day long.
#### 18 | Indeed surely there is a future hope, And your hope will not be cut off.
#### 19 | Listen, my son, and be wise, And keep your heart on the right path!
#### 20 | Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, Or those who gorge themselves on meat:
#### 21 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.
#### 22 | Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.
#### 23 | Buy the truth, and don't sell it: Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
#### 24 | The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
#### 25 | Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
#### 26 | My son, give me your heart; And let your eyes keep in my ways.
#### 27 | For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well.
#### 28 | Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.
#### 29 | Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
#### 30 | Those who stay long at the wine; Those who go to seek out mixed wine.
#### 31 | Don't look at the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly:
#### 32 | At the last it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.
#### 33 | Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.
#### 34 | Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
#### 35 | 'They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.'

Proverbs 24

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