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When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, |
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and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite. |
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Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive. |
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Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. |
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When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle! |
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Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies; |
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for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you; |
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you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words. |
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Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. |
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Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless, |
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for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you. |
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Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge. |
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Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. |
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If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death. |
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My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad; |
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my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. |
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Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the LORD all the time. |
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For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. |
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Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way. |
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Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat, |
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because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags. |
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Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. |
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Acquire truth and do not sell it— wisdom, and discipline, and understanding. |
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The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him. |
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May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice. |
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Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways; |
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for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well. |
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Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. |
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes? |
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Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine. |
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Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. |
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Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper. |
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Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things. |
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And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging. |
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You will say, "They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink." |
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