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# Proverbs 23 (New King James Version)
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Listen to Your Father
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##### Chapter 23
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###### 1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
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Consider carefully what _is_ before you;
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###### 2 And put a knife to your throat
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If you _are_ a man given to appetite.
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###### 3 Do not desire his delicacies,
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For they _are_ deceptive food.
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###### 4 Do not overwork to be rich;
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Because of your own understanding, cease!
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###### 5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
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For _riches_ certainly make themselves wings;
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They fly away like an eagle _toward_ heaven.
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###### 6 Do not eat the bread of a miser,
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Nor desire his delicacies;
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###### 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so _is_ he.
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"Eat and drink!" he says to you,
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But his heart is not with you.
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###### 8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,
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And waste your pleasant words.
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###### 9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
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For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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###### 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark,
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Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
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###### 11 For their Redeemer _is_ mighty;
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He will plead their cause against you.
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###### 12 Apply your heart to instruction,
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And your ears to words of knowledge.
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###### 13 Do not withhold correction from a child,
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For _if_ you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
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###### 14 You shall beat him with a rod,
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And deliver his soul from hell.
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###### 15 My son, if your heart is wise,
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My heart will rejoice--indeed, I myself;
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###### 16 Yes, my inmost being will rejoice
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When your lips speak right things.
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###### 17 Do not let your heart envy sinners,
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But _be zealous_ for the fear of the Lord all the day;
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###### 18 For surely there is a hereafter,
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And your hope will not be cut off.
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###### 19 Hear, my son, and be wise;
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And guide your heart in the way.
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###### 20 Do not mix with winebibbers,
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_Or_ with gluttonous eaters of meat;
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###### 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
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And drowsiness will clothe _a man_ with rags.
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###### 22 Listen to your father who begot you,
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And do not despise your mother when she is old.
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###### 23 Buy the truth, and do not sell _it,_
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_Also_ wisdom and instruction and understanding.
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###### 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
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And he who begets a wise _child_ will delight in him.
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###### 25 Let your father and your mother be glad,
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And let her who bore you rejoice.
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###### 26 My son, give me your heart,
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And let your eyes observe my ways.
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###### 27 For a harlot _is_ a deep pit,
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And a seductress _is_ a narrow well.
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###### 28 She also lies in wait as _for_ a victim,
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And increases the unfaithful among men.
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###### 29 Who has woe?
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Who has sorrow?
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Who has contentions?
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Who has complaints?
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Who has wounds without cause?
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Who has redness of eyes?
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###### 30 Those who linger long at the wine,
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Those who go in search of mixed wine.
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###### 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red,
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When it sparkles in the cup,
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_When_ it swirls around smoothly;
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###### 32 At the last it bites like a serpent,
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And stings like a viper.
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###### 33 Your eyes will see strange things,
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And your heart will utter perverse things.
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###### 34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
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Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, _saying:_
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###### 35 "They have struck me, _but_ I was not hurt;
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They have beaten me, but I did not feel _it._
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When shall I awake, that I may seek another _drink?_"
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