14 A good spanking, in fact, might save them from something worse than death 15 Dear child, if you become wise, I'll be one happy parent. 13 Don't be afraid to correct your young ones a spanking won't kill them. 8 His miserly serving will turn your stomach when you realize the meal's a sham.ĩ Don't bother talking sense to fools they'll only poke fun at your words.ġ0 Don't stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, 11 For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them.ġ2 Give yourselves to disciplined instruction open your ears to tested knowledge. 7 He'll be as stingy with you as he is with himself he'll say, "Eat! Drink!" but won't mean a word of it. 3 And don't stuff yourself bridle your appetite.Ĥ Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich restrain yourself 5 Riches disappear in the blink of an eye wealth sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue yonder.Ħ Don't accept a meal from a tightwad don't expect anything special. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?"Ģ3 1 When you go out to dinner with an influential person, mind your manners: 2 Don't gobble your food, don't talk with your mouth full. 34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying: 35 "They have struck me, but I was not hurt They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper. 28 She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.Ģ9 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine. 27 For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well. 26 My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who bore you rejoice. 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him. 23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding. 15 My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice-indeed, I myself 16 Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things.ġ7 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the Lord all the day 18 For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will not be cut off.ġ9 Hear, my son, and be wise And guide your heart in the way 20 Do not mix with winebibbers, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags 22 Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. 14 You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell. 13 Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. 8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.ĩ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.ġ0 Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless 11 For their Redeemer is mighty He will plead their cause against you.ġ2 Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you. 3 Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceptive food.Ĥ Do not overwork to be rich Because of your own understanding, cease 5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.Ħ Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. 23 1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you 2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.
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