Proverbs 23 If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. ² And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul. ³ Thou shalt not long for his dainties: and it is the bread of lies. ⁴ Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom. ⁵ Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens. ⁶ Thou shalt not eat the bread of an evil eye, and ye shall not long for its dainties: ⁷ Like him estimating evil in his soul, so is he: Eat and drink, he will say to thee; and his heart not with thee. ⁸ Thy morsel which thou didst eat thou shalt vomit forth and destroy thy pleasant words. ⁹ In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words. ¹⁰ Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come: ¹¹ For he redeeming them, he is strong; he will contend their contention with thee. ¹² Bring thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. ¹³ Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die. ¹⁴ Thou shalt strike him with the rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hades. ¹⁵ My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. ¹⁶ And my reins shall exult in the speaking of thy lips uprightnesses. ¹⁷ Thy heart shall not envy against those sinning: but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day. ¹⁸ But there is a latter state, and thine expectation shall not be cut off. ¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart right in the way. ²⁰ Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them: ²¹ For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags. ²² Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old. ²³ Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding. ²⁴ The father of the just one rejoicing, shall rejoice: he shall beget a wise one and shall rejoice in him. ²⁵ Thy father shall rejoice, and thy mother, and she begetting thee shall exult. ²⁶ My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way. ²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch; and a strong woman a narrow well. ²⁸ She also will lie in wait as for prey, and she will add those transgressing among men. ²⁹ To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes? ³⁰ To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses. ³² Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper. ³³ Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness. ³⁴ And thou wert as he lying down in the heart of the sea, and as he lying down upon the head of the mast ³⁵ They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.