Proverbs 23
23:1If you should sit to have supper at the table of a monarch, intelligibly comprehend the things being placed near you!
23:2And give attention to your hand! beholding that it is a must for you to make preparations for such things; but if you are insatiable,
23:3do not desire his food; for these have a false life.
23:4Do not reach forth, being needy, to the rich! but in your insight be at a distance!
23:5If you set your eye upon him, he shall not at all appear; for there are carefully prepared for him wings as of an eagle, and he returns to the house being set for him.
23:6Do not dine with a bewitching man, nor desire his foods;
23:7for in which manner as if any may swallow down a hair, thus he eats and drinks; nor should you bring him to yourself, nor you should eat your morsel with him,
23:8for he will vomit it, and lay waste your good words.
23:9Do not speak into the ears of a fool! lest at any time he sneer at discerning your words.
23:10You should not transpose the everlasting boundaries; and to the possession of orphans you should not enter to take;
23:11for the one ransoming them is the lord; he is strong, and he arbitrates their case with you.
23:12Give your heart for instruction! and prepare your ears for words of good sense!
23:13You should not be at a distance to correct the simple; for if you strike him with a rod in no way should he die.
23:14Forasmuch as you struck him with a rod, then you rescued his soul from death.
23:15O son, if you should make your heart wise, you shall gladden also my heart;
23:16and the words of your lips shall spend time with my lips, if they should be straight.
23:17Let not your heart be jealous of sinners, but be in the fear of the lord the whole day!
23:18For if you should give heed to these things there will be a progeny for you, and your hope will not leave.
23:19Hear, O son, and be wise, and straighten out the reflections of your heart!
23:20Do not be a winebibber, nor stretch out couplings, nor purchasings of meats!
23:21For every intoxicated one and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sleepy one shall put on torn and ragged garments.
23:22Hear, O son, the father engendering you, and do not disdain that your mother has grown old!
23:23Acquire truth! and you should not thrust away wisdom and instruction and understanding.
23:24A just father nourishes well; and his soul is gladdened by a wise son.
23:25Let your father and mother be glad over you, and let the one who gave birth to you rejoice!
23:26Give to me, O son, your heart, and let your eyes give heed to my ways!
23:27For a strange house is a cask having been drilled; and a strange well is narrow.
23:28For this one suddenly shall perish, and every lawbreaker shall be consumed.
23:29To whom is there woe? to whom a tumult? to whom litigations? to whom rancor and intrigue? to whom breaks without cause? to whom dark colored eyes?
23:30is it not the ones lingering in wines? is it not the ones prowling where parties happen? Do not be intoxicated by wine, but consort with just men, and consort in the promenades!
23:31For if in the bowls and the cups you should give your eyes, afterwards you shall walk more naked than a pestle.
23:32But at last it will be as if being struck by a serpent he stretches out, and as if by a horned serpent the poison diffuses throughout him.
23:33Whenever your eyes behold the strange woman, your mouth then speaks perverse things;
23:34and you shall recline as if in the heart of the sea; and as a navigator in a great swell;
23:35and you shall say, They beat me, and I did not have pain; and, They mocked me, but I did not know. When will it be dawn that coming I shall seek after one who shall go together with me to drink?