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In your wisdom, show restraint.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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