Proverbs 23 — YLT
23Verse 1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which [is] before thee,Verse 2And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou [art] a man of appetite.Verse 3Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it [is] lying food.Verse 4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.Verse 5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.Verse 6Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,Verse 7For as he hath thought in his soul, so [is] he, 'Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart [is] not with thee.Verse 8Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that [are] sweet.Verse 9In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.Verse 10Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,Verse 11For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.Verse 12Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.Verse 13Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.Verse 14Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.Verse 15My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,Verse 16And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.Verse 17Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But — in the fear of Jehovah all the day.Verse 18For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.Verse 19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,Verse 20Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,Verse 21For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.Verse 22Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.Verse 23Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,Verse 24The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.Verse 25Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.Verse 26Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.Verse 27For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a strait pit.Verse 28She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.Verse 29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?Verse 30Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.Verse 31See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.Verse 32Its latter end — as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.Verse 33Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.Verse 34And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.Verse 35'They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake — I seek it yet again!'