| Proverbs 23:1 | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that is before thee;
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| Proverbs 23:2 | And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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| Proverbs 23:3 | Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food.
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| Proverbs 23:4 | Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
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| Proverbs 23:5 | Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
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| Proverbs 23:6 | Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties;
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| Proverbs 23:7 | For as one that hath reckoned within himself, so is he: 'Eat and drink', saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
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| Proverbs 23:8 | The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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| Proverbs 23:9 | Speak not in the ears of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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| Proverbs 23:10 | Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;
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| Proverbs 23:11 | For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause with thee.
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| Proverbs 23:12 | Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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| Proverbs 23:13 | Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
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| Proverbs 23:14 | Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.
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| Proverbs 23:15 | My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine;
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| Proverbs 23:16 | Yea, my reins will rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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| Proverbs 23:17 | Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of the LORD all the day;
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| Proverbs 23:18 | For surely there is a future; and thy hope shall not be cut off.
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| Proverbs 23:19 | Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
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| Proverbs 23:20 | Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh;
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| Proverbs 23:21 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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| Proverbs 23:22 | Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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| Proverbs 23:23 | Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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| Proverbs 23:24 | The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
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| Proverbs 23:25 | Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
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| Proverbs 23:26 | My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
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| Proverbs 23:27 | For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.
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| Proverbs 23:28 | She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men.
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| Proverbs 23:29 | Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? Who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
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| Proverbs 23:30 | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
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| Proverbs 23:31 | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly;
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| Proverbs 23:32 | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk.
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| Proverbs 23:33 | Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter confused things.
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| Proverbs 23:34 | Yea, 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.
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| Proverbs 23:35 | 'They have struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.'
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