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Proverbs 23 📜 📕 ↷
True Riches
1 When thou shalt sit to eat with a Prince, attend diligently what things are set before thy face:📜💬📚
2 and set a knife in thy throat, if notwithstanding thou have thy soul in thine own power.📜💬📚
3 Desire not his meats, in which is the breath of lying.📜💬📚
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4 Labour not to be rich: but set a mean to thy prudence.📜💬📚
5 Lift not up thine eyes to the riches, which thou canst not have: because they shall make to themselves wings as of an eagle, and shall fly into heaven.📜💬📚
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6 Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats.📜💬📚
7 Because after the similitude of a soothsayer, and diviner, he esteemeth that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.📜💬📚
8 The meats which thou hadst eaten thou shalt vomit up: and shalt lose thy beautiful words.📜💬📚
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9 Speak not in the ears of the unwise: because they will despise the doctrine of thy speech.📜💬📚
Saying 11
10 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and into the field of pupils enter not.📜💬📚
11 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.📜💬📚
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12 Let thy heart enter into doctrine: and thine ears to words of knowledge.📜💬📚
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13 Withdraw not discipline from a child: for if thou shalt strike him with the rod, he shall not die.📜💬📚
14 Thou shalt strike him with the rod: and deliver his soul from hell.📜💬📚
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15 My son, if thy mind shall be wise, my heart shall be glad with thee:📜💬📚
16 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak right things.📜💬📚
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17 Let not thy heart envy sinners: but in the fear of our Lord be thou all the day:📜💬📚
18 because thou shalt have hope in the later end, and thine exaltation shall not be taken away.📜💬📚
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19 Hear my son, & be wise: & direct thy mind in the way.📜💬📚
20 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their comessations, which contribute flesh together to eat:📜💬📚
21 because they that are given to drinking, and that pay shots, shall be consumed, and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.📜💬📚
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22 Hear thy father, that begot thee: and contemn not thy mother when she is old.📜💬📚
23 Buy truth, and sell not wisdom, and doctrine, and intelligence.📜💬📚
24 The father of the just rejoiceth with gladness: he that hath begotten a wiseman, shall rejoice in him.📜💬📚
25 Let thy father be glad and thy mother, and let her rejoice that bare thee.📜💬📚
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26 My son give me thy heart: & let thine eyes keep my ways.📜💬📚
27 For an harlot is a deep ditch: & a strange woman a narrow pit.📜💬📚
28 She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and whom she shall see not circumspect, she will kill.📜💬📚
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29 To whom is woe? To whose father woe? To whom brawls? To whom ditches? To whom wounds without cause? To whom blood-shedding eyes?📜💬📚
30 Is it not to them that pass their time in wine, and study to drink out their cups?📜💬📚
31 Behold not wine when it waxeth yellow, when the colour thereof shall shine in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,📜💬📚
32 but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and as a basilisk it will pour abroad poisons.📜💬📚
33 Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverse things.📜💬📚
34 And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as the governor fast asleep, the stern being lost.📜💬📚
35 And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not grieved: they drew me, and I felt not: When shall I awake, and find wines again?📜💬📚
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