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Proverbs 23 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
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class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Lest you put a dagger to your mouth, if you are a man that breathes.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>And do not lust for his food because his bread is the bread of lies.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Do not come near a rich man, but in wisdom, separate from him;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>For if you fix your eye on him, he disappears before you, because he makes wings for himself like an eagle and flies into the sky.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>Do not dine with a gluttonous man and do not lust for his food.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>For just as a man swallows a bristle hair, so you eat and drink with him and his mind is not with you.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And the bread that you eat, you vomit, and you spoil your sweet words.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Do not speak in front of a fool because he despises your words.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Do not remove the boundary which is of old, and do not enter into the field of orphans<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Because their Savior is strong and he shall judge their case with you.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>Bring your heart to instruction and your ear to the speech of knowledge.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Do not withhold discipline from a boy, because if you strike him, he does not die.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>For you strike him with a rod and you deliver his soul from Sheol.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will also rejoice.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>And my kidneys will be glad whenever your lips speak uprightness.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Let not your heart envy sinners but be zealous for the awe of LORD JEHOVAH all day long.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>For there will be a posterity for you, and your hope will not end.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>Hear, my son, and be wise, and set up my doctrine in your heart.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Do not be drunk with wine and do not be a glutton of meat.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>Because he that is drunk with wine and a glutton of meat will be destroyed, and he that sleeps will wear horse cloth.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Hear your father who begot you and do not despise the old age of your mother.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Buy truth and do not sell wisdom, instruction or understanding.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>The father of the righteous will exult and leap for joy, and he that begets a wise son, and his father will rejoice in him.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And your father and your mother will rejoice in you and she that bore you will rejoice.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>Give me your heart, my son, and your eyes will keep my ways.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>For a whore is a deep ditch and an estranged woman is a disturbed well.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>She destroys suddenly and many evil men multiply.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has judgment and who has afflictions? Who has wounds without cause and who has red eyes?<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>Is it not those that linger at the wine and track down where there is a tavern? You shall not be drunk with wine, but speak with righteous men and walk and talk with them.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>Do not fix your eyes on the wine that is red, its color in the cup, but meditate on righteousness.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>Because the end of the wine is like a wound from a serpent and like a flying cockatrice.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>When your eyes gaze at an estranged woman, then your heart speaks perverse things.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>And you yourself are like he that lies down in the heart of the sea, and like a sailor in a great storm.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-35.htm#aramaic"><b>35</b></a></span>And you will say, "They hit me and I did not suffer; they were abusive to me and I did not know it. When I wake up and I go out, I will seek it.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../proverbs/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Proverbs 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Proverbs 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../proverbs/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Proverbs 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Proverbs 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>