Proverbs 23
1 When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.
If you will sit down to eat with a ruler carefully you will consider [that] which [is] before you.
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
And you will put a knife in throat your if [are] a master of appetite you.
3 Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
May not (you crave *QK) for dainties his and it [is] food of lies.
4 Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
May not you labor to gain riches from understanding your cease.
5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
(¿ Do you cause to fly *QK) eyes your on it and there not [is] it for certainly it makes for itself wings like an eagle (it flies away *QK) the heavens.
6 Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
May not you eat [the] food of a [person] evil of eye and may not (you crave *QK) for dainties his.
7 Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
For - as he calculates in self his [is] so he eat and drink he says to you and heart his not [is] with you.
8 The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
Morsel your [which] you have eaten you will vomit up it and you will spoil words your pleasant.
9 Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
In [the] ears of a fool may not you speak for he will despise [the] insight of words your.
10 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
May not you displace a boundary of antiquity and in [the] fields of fatherless ones may not you go.
11 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
For redeemer their [is] strong he he will conduct case their with you.
12 Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
Bring! to discipline heart your and ears your to words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
May not you withhold from a youth discipline for you will strike him with the rod not he will die.
You with the rod you will strike him and life his from Sheol you will deliver. (Sheol h7585)
15 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
O son my if it is wise heart your it will rejoice heart my also I.
16 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
So they may rejoice kidneys my when speak lips your uprightness.
17 Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
May not it be jealous heart of your sinners that except in [the] fear of Yahweh all the day.
18 Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
That except there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
Listen O you son my and be wise and guide in the way heart your.
20 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
May not you be among drunkards of wine among gluttons of meat themselves.
21 Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
For a drunkard and a glutton he will become impoverished and rags it will clothe [them] drowsiness.
22 Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Listen to father your who he begot you and may not you despise if she is old mother your.
23 Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Truth buy and may not you sell [it] wisdom and discipline and understanding.
24 The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
(Certainly he rejoices *Qk) [the] father of a righteous [son] (and [one who] begets *QK) a wise [son] (he rejoices *QK) in him.
25 Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
May he rejoice father your and mother your and may she rejoice [the] [one who] bore you.
26 My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
Give! O son my heart your to me and eyes your ways my (let them observe. *QK)
27 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For [is] a pit deep a prostitute and [is] a well narrow a foreign [woman].
28 She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
Also she like a robber she lies in wait and treacherous [people] among humankind she increases.
29 Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
[belongs] to Whom? woe [belongs] to whom? woe! [belong] to whom? (contentions *QK) [belongs] to whom? complaint [belong] to whom? wounds without cause [belongs] to whom? dullness of eyes.
30 Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.
To [those who] delay over the wine to [those who] go to examine mixed wine.
31 Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
May not you see wine for it will be red if it will give (in the cup *QK) eye its it will go with smoothness.
32 But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
End its like a snake it will bite and like a viper it will sting.
33 Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Eyes your they will see strange [things] and heart your it will speak perverse things.
34 And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.
And you will be like [one who] lies down in [the] heart of [the] sea and like [one who] lies down at [the] top of a mast.
35 And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake, and find wine again?
They struck me not I am sick they beat me not I know when? will I awake I will repeat I will seek it again.
