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Proverbs 23 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:1 - If thou sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before thee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:2 - and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such meats: but if thou art very insatiable,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 - desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:4 - If thou art poor, measure not thyself with a rich man; but refrain thyself in thy wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5 - If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:6 - Sup not with an envious man, neither desire thou his meats:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:7 - so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:8 - for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:9 - Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:10 - Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:11 - for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:12 - Apply thine heart to instruction, and prepare thine ears for words of discretion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Refrain not from chastening a child; for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14 - For thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:15 - Son, if thy heart be wise, thou shalt also gladden my heart;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:16 - and thy lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:17 - Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:18 - For if thou shouldest keep these things, thou shalt have posterity; and thine hope shall not be removed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:19 - Hear, my son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of thine heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:20 - Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:21 - for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:22 - Hearken, my son, to thy father which begot thee, and despise not thy mother because she is grown old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24 - A righteous father brings up his children well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:25 - Let thy father and thy mother rejoice over thee, and let her that bore thee be glad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:26 - My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:28 - For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:29 - Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who has bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:30 - Are not those of them that stay long at wine? are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them [fn]openly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 - For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, thou shalt afterwards go more naked than a pestle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:32 - But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:33 - Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:34 - And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:35 - And thou shalt say, They smote me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
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Gr. in public walks.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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