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    Proverbs 23
    • 1   When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,
    • 2   And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.
    • 3   Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.
    • 4   Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
    • 5   For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
    • 6   Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,
    • 7   For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee.
    • 8   Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.
    • 9   In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
    • 10   Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
    • 11   For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
    • 12   Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
    • 13   Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
    • 14   Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.
    • 15   My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
    • 16   And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
    • 17   Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But--in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
    • 18   For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
    • 19   Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,
    • 20   Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
    • 21   For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
    • 22   Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
    • 23   Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
    • 24   The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.
    • 25   Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
    • 26   Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.
    • 27   For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.
    • 28   She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
    • 29   Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
    • 30   Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
    • 31   See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
    • 32   Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
    • 33   Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
    • 34   And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.
    • 35   `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake--I seek it yet again!'
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  • Young's Literal Translation (ylt - 1.1)

    2006-10-25

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    Young's Literal Translation
    of the Holy Bible
    by Robert Young, 1862, 1898
    (Author of the Young's Analytical Concordance)

    Printed copy available from Baker Publishing
    Grand Rapids, Mi. 49516

    • Direction: LTR
    • LCSH: Bible. English.
    • Distribution Abbreviation: ylt

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