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{Proverbs 23:1} When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:2} And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:3} Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:4} Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:5} Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:6} Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:7} For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:8} The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:9} Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:10} Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:11} For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:12} Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:13} Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:14} Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:15} My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:16} Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:17} Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:18} For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:19} Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:20} Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:21} For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:22} Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:23} Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:24} The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:25} Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:26} My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:27} For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:28} She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:29} Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:30} They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:31} Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:32} At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:33} Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:34} Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Proverbs 23:35} They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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