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23:1  If you sit to dine with a Ruler, perceive what is set before you
23:2  Lest you put a dagger to your mouth, if you are a man that breathes.
23:3  And do not lust for his food because his bread is the bread of lies.
23:4  Do not come near a rich man, but in wisdom, separate from him;
23:5  For if you fix your eye on him, he disappears before you, because he makes wings for himself like an eagle and flies into the sky.
23:6  Do not dine with a gluttonous man and do not lust for his food.
23:7  For just as a man swallows a bristle hair, so you eat and drink with him and his mind is not with you.
23:8  And the bread that you eat, you vomit, and you spoil your sweet words.
23:9  Do not speak in front of a fool because he despises your words.
23:10  Do not remove the boundary which is of old, and do not enter into the field of orphans
23:11  Because their Savior is strong and he shall judge their case with you.
23:12  Bring your heart to instruction and your ear to the speech of knowledge.
23:13  Do not withhold discipline from a boy, because if you strike him, he does not die.
23:14  For you strike him with a rod and you deliver his soul from Sheol.
23:15  My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will also rejoice.
23:16  And my kidneys will be glad whenever your lips speak uprightness.
23:17  Let not your heart envy sinners but be zealous for the awe of Lord Jehovah all day long.
23:18  For there will be a posterity for you, and your hope will not end.
23:19  Hear, my son, and be wise, and set up my doctrine in your heart.
23:20  Do not be drunk with wine and do not be a glutton of meat.
23:21  Because he that is drunk with wine and a glutton of meat will be destroyed, and he that sleeps will wear horse cloth.
23:22  Hear your father who begot you and do not despise the old age of your mother.
23:23  Buy truth and do not sell wisdom, instruction or understanding.
23:24  The father of the righteous will exult and leap for joy, and he that begets a wise son, and his father will rejoice in him.
23:25  And your father and your mother will rejoice in you and she that bore you will rejoice.
23:26  Give me your heart my son, and your eyes will keep my ways.
23:27  For a whore is a deep ditch and an estranged woman is a disturbed well.
23:28  She destroys suddenly and many evil men multiply.
23:29  Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has judgment and who has afflictions? Who has wounds without cause and who has red eyes?
23:30  Is it not those that linger at the wine and track down where there is a tavern? You shall not be drunk with wine, but speak with righteous men and walk and talk with them.
23:31  Do not fix your eyes on the cup, with the wine seller, whose eye is red, but meditate on righteousness.
23:32  Because the end of the wine is like a wound from a serpent and like a flying cockatrice.
23:33  When your eyes gaze at an estranged woman, then your heart speaks perverse things.
23:34  And you yourself are like he that lies down in the heart of the sea, and like a sailor in a great storm.
23:35  And you will say, “They hit me and I did not suffer; they were abusive to me and I did not know it. When I wake up and I go out, I will seek it.”