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Proverbs 23 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:1 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:2 - And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 - Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:4 - Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5 - For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:6 - Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:7 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:8 - Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:9 - In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:10 - Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:11 - For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:12 - Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14 - Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:15 - My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:16 - And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:17 - Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:18 - For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:19 - Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:20 - Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:21 - For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:22 - Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:23 - Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24 - The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:25 - Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:26 - Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:28 - She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:29 - Who hath wo? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:30 - Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 - See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:32 - Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:33 - Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:34 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:35 - '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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Proverbs Chapter 23 — Additional Translations:

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