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| [1]When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee, |
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| [2]And put the knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to the appetite. |
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| [3]Be not desirous of his dainty meats: for it is a deceivable meat. |
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| [4]Travail not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdom. |
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| [5]Wilt thou cast thine eyes upon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heaven. |
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| [6]Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire his dainty meats. |
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| [7]For as though he thought it in his heart, so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not with thee. |
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| [8]Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweet words. |
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| [9]Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. |
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| [10]Remove not the ancient bounds, and enter not into the fields of the fatherless. |
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| [11]For he that redeemeth them, is mighty: he will defend their cause against thee. |
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| [12]Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. |
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| [13]Withhold not correction from the child: if thou smite him with the rod, he shall not die. |
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| [14]Thou shalt smite him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
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| [15]My son, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall rejoice and I also. |
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| [16]And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak righteous things. |
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| [17]Let not thine heart be envious against sinners: but let it be in the fear of the Lord continually. |
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| [18]For surely there is an end, and thy hope shall not be cut off. |
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| [19]O thou my son, hear, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. |
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| [20]Keep not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons. |
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| [21]For the drunkard and the glutton shall be poor, and the sleeper shall be clothed with rags. |
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| [22]Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
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| [23]Buy the truth, but sell it not: likewise wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. |
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| [24]The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child, shall have joy of him. |
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| [25]Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bear thee shall rejoice. |
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| [26]My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways. |
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| [27]For a whore is as a deep ditch, and a strange woman is as a narrow pit. |
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| [28]Also she lieth in wait as for a prey, and she increaseth the transgressors among men. |
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| [29]To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom is strife? To whom is murmuring? To whom are wounds without cause? And to whom is the redness of the eyes? |
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| [30]Even to them that tarry long at the wine, to them that go, and seek mixed wine. |
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| [31]Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red, and when it showeth his color in the cup, or goeth down pleasantly. |
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| [32]In the end thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrice. |
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| [33]Thine eyes shall look upon strange women, and thine heart shall speak lewd things. |
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| [34]And thou shalt be as one that sleepeth in the midst of the sea, and as he that sleepeth in the top of the mast. |
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| [35]They have stricken me, shalt thou say, but I was not sick: they have beaten me, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seek it yet still. |
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