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\c 23
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\v 1 When you sit to eat with a ruler,
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\q observe carefully what is before you,
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\v 2 and put a knife to your throat
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\q if you are a person who likes to eat a lot of food.
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\v 3 Do not crave his delicacies,
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\q for it is the food of lies.
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\v 4 Do not work too hard to gain wealth;
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\q be wise enough to know when to stop.
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\v 5 Will you let your eyes light upon it?
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\q It will be gone,
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\q for it will surely take up wings like an eagle
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\q and fly off to the sky.
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\v 6 Do not eat the food of one with an evil eye—
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\q and do not crave his delicacies,
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\v 7 for he is the kind of man who counts the price of the food.
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\q "Eat and drink!" he says to you,
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\q but his heart is not with you.
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\v 8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten
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\q and you will have wasted your compliments.
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\v 9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
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\q for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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\v 10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone
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\q or encroach on the fields of orphans,
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\v 11 for their Redeemer is strong
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\q and he will plead their case against you.
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\v 12 Apply your heart to instruction
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\q and your ears to words of knowledge.
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\v 13 Do not withhold instruction from a child,
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\q for if you discipline him, he will not die.
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\v 14 It is you who must beat him with the rod
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\q and save his soul from Sheol.
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\v 15 My son, if your heart is wise,
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\q then my heart also will be glad;
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\v 16 my inmost being will rejoice
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\q when your lips speak what is right.
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\v 17 Do not let your heart envy sinners,
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\q but continue in the fear of Yahweh all the day.
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\v 18 Surely there is a future
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\q and your hope will not be cut off.
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\v 19 Hear—you!—my son, and be wise
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\q and direct your heart in the way.
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\v 20 Do not associate with drunkards,
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\q or with gluttonous eaters of meat,
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\v 21 for the drunkard and the glutton become poor
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\q and slumber will clothe them with rags.
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\v 22 Listen to your father who begot you
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\q and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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\v 23 Buy the truth, but do not sell it;
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\q buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
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\v 24 The father of the righteous person will greatly rejoice,
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\q and he who begets a wise child will be glad in him.
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\v 25 Let your father and your mother be glad
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\q and let her who bore you rejoice.
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\v 26 My son, give me your heart
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\q and let your eyes observe my ways.
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\v 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit,
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\q and an immoral woman is a narrow well.
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\v 28 She lies in wait like a robber
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\q and she increases the number of the treacherous among humanity.
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\v 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fights?
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\q Who has complaining? Who has wounds for no reason?
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\q Who has bloodshot eyes?
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\v 30 Those who linger over wine,
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\q those who try the mixed wine.
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\v 31 Do not look at the wine when it is red,
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\q when it sparkles in the cup
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\q and goes down smoothly.
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\v 32 In the last it bites like a serpent
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\q and it stings like an adder.
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\v 33 Your eyes will see strange things
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\q and your heart will utter perverse things.
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\v 34 You will be as one who sleeps on the high seas
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\q or lies on the top of a mast.
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\v 35 "They hit me," you will say, "but I was not hurt.
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\q They beat me, but I did not feel it.
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\q When will I wake up? I will seek another drink."
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