54edb264fe
- Read version parameter from URL on page load (?version=esv|?version=nkjv) - Update URL with version when selection changes - Enable shareable version-specific URLs like /book/Genesis/chapter/1?version=nkjv
117 lines
3.0 KiB
Markdown
117 lines
3.0 KiB
Markdown
|
|
# Chapter 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.
|
|
|
|
3. Do not desire his delicacies,
|
|
For they are deceptive food.
|
|
|
|
4. 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.
|
|
|
|
6. Do not eat the bread of a miser,
|
|
Nor desire his delicacies;
|
|
|
|
7. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
|
|
"Eat and drink!" he says to you,
|
|
But his heart is not with you.
|
|
|
|
8. The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,
|
|
And waste your pleasant words.
|
|
|
|
9. Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
|
|
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
|
|
|
|
10. 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.
|
|
|
|
12. Apply your heart to instruction,
|
|
And your ears to words of knowledge.
|
|
|
|
13. Do not withhold correction from a child,
|
|
For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
|
|
|
|
14. You shall beat him with a rod,
|
|
And deliver his soul from hell.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
17. 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.
|
|
|
|
19. 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.
|
|
|
|
23. Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
|
|
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
|
|
|
|
24. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
|
|
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.
|
|
|
|
25. Let your father and your mother be glad,
|
|
And let her who bore you rejoice.
|
|
|
|
26. My son, give me your heart,
|
|
And let your eyes observe my ways.
|
|
|
|
27. For a harlot is a deep pit,
|
|
And a seductress is a narrow well.
|
|
|
|
28. She also lies in wait as for a victim,
|
|
And increases the unfaithful among men.
|
|
|
|
29. 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.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
33. Your eyes will see strange things,
|
|
And your heart will utter perverse things.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?"
|
|
|
|
|