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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/22.htm" title="Proverbs 22">◄</a> Proverbs 23 <a href="../proverbs/24.htm" title="Proverbs 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch24023" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn24023" class="cn"></h1> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v24023001" class="ver">1</span><a id="rfn24023001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023001-1">*</a> When you sit down to dine with a ruler,</p> <p class="sl1">mark well the one who is before you;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023002" class="ver">2</span>Stick the knife in your gullet<a id="rfn24023002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023002-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">if you have a ravenous appetite.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023003" class="ver">3</span>Do not desire his delicacies;</p> <p class="sl1">it is food that deceives.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023004" class="ver">4</span>Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth,</p> <p class="sl1">cease to be worried about it;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023005" class="ver">5</span>When your glance flits to it, it is gone!</p> <p class="sl1">For assuredly it grows wings,</p> <p class="sl1">like the eagle that flies toward heaven.<a id="rfn24023005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023005-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023006" class="ver">6</span><a id="rfn24023006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023006-1">*</a> Do not take food with unwilling hosts,</p> <p class="sl1">and do not desire their delicacies;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023007" class="ver">7</span>For like something stuck in the throat is that food.</p> <p class="sl">“Eat and drink,” they say to you,</p> <p class="sl1">but their hearts are not with you;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023008" class="ver">8</span>The little you have eaten you will vomit up,</p> <p class="sl1">and you will have wasted your agreeable words.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023009" class="ver">9</span>Do not speak in the hearing of fools;</p> <p class="sl1">they will despise the wisdom of your words.<a id="ren24023009-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023009-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023010" class="ver">10</span>Do not remove the ancient landmark,<a id="ren24023010-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023010-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">nor invade the fields of the fatherless;<a id="rfn24023010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023010-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023011" class="ver">11</span>For their redeemer is strong;</p> <p class="sl1">he will defend their cause against you.<a id="ren24023011-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023011-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023012" class="ver">12</span>Apply your heart to instruction,</p> <p class="sl1">and your ear to words of knowledge.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023013" class="ver">13</span><a id="rfn24023013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023013-1">*</a> Do not withhold discipline from youths;</p> <p class="sl1">if you beat them with the rod, they will not die.<a id="ren24023013-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023013-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023014" class="ver">14</span>Beat them with the rod,<a id="ren24023014-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023014-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">and you will save them from Sheol.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023015" class="ver">15</span>My son, if your heart is wise,</p> <p class="sl1">my heart also will rejoice;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023016" class="ver">16</span>And my inmost being will exult,</p> <p class="sl1">when your lips speak what is right.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023017" class="ver">17</span>Do not let your heart envy sinners,<a id="ren24023017-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023017-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">but only those who always fear the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>;<a id="rfn24023017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023017-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023018" class="ver">18</span>For you will surely have a future,</p> <p class="sl1">and your hope will not be cut off.<a id="ren24023018-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023018-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023019" class="ver">19</span>Hear, my son, and be wise,</p> <p class="sl1">and guide your heart in the right way.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023020" class="ver">20</span>Do not join with wine bibbers,</p> <p class="sl1">nor with those who glut themselves on meat.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023021" class="ver">21</span>For drunkards and gluttons come to poverty,</p> <p class="sl1">and lazing about clothes one in rags.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023022" class="ver">22</span><a id="rfn24023022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023022-1">*</a> Listen to your father who begot you,</p> <p class="sl1">do not despise your mother when she is old.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023023" class="ver">23</span>Buy truth and do not sell:</p> <p class="sl1">wisdom, instruction, understanding!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023024" class="ver">24</span>The father of a just person will exult greatly;</p> <p class="sl1">whoever begets a wise son will rejoice in him.<a id="ren24023024-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023024-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023025" class="ver">25</span>Let your father and mother rejoice;</p> <p class="sl1">let her who bore you exult.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023026" class="ver">26</span><a id="rfn24023026-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023026-1">*</a> My son, give me your heart,</p> <p class="sl1">and let your eyes keep to my ways,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023027" class="ver">27</span>For the harlot is a deep pit,</p> <p class="sl1">and the foreign woman a narrow well;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023028" class="ver">28</span>Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,<a id="ren24023028-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023028-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl1">and increases the number of the faithless.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023029" class="ver">29</span><a id="rfn24023029-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023029-1">*</a> Who scream? Who shout?</p> <p class="sl1">Who have strife? Who have anxiety?</p> <p class="sl">Who have wounds for nothing?</p> <p class="sl1">Who have bleary eyes?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023030" class="ver">30</span>Whoever linger long over wine,</p> <p class="sl1">whoever go around quaffing wine.<a id="ren24023030-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24023030-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023031" class="ver">31</span>Do not look on the wine when it is red,</p> <p class="sl1">when it sparkles in the cup.</p> <p class="sl">It goes down smoothly,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v24023032" class="ver">32</span>but in the end it bites like a serpent,</p> <p class="sl1">and stings like an adder.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023033" class="ver">33</span>Your eyes behold strange sights,</p> <p class="sl1">and your heart utters incoherent things;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023034" class="ver">34</span>You are like one sleeping on the high seas,</p> <p class="sl1">sprawled at the top of the mast.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24023035" class="ver">35</span>“They struck me, but it did not pain me;</p> <p class="sl1">they beat me, but I did not feel it.</p> <p class="sl">When can I get up,</p> <p class="sl1">when can I go out and get more?”<a id="rfn24023035-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24023035-1">*</a></p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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