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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
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consider diligently what is before thee: |
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and put a knife to thy throat,
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if thou be a man given to appetite. |
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Be not desirous of his dainties:
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for they are deceitful meat. |
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Labor not to be rich;
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cease from thine own wisdom. |
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
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For riches certainly make themselves wings; |
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they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. |
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
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neither desire thou his dainty meats: |
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for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
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Eat and drink, saith he to thee; |
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but his heart is not with thee. |
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The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
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and lose thy sweet words. |
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Speak not in the ears of a fool:
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for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. |
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Remove not the old landmark;
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and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
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for their Redeemenr is mighty;
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he shall plead their cause with thee. |
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Apply thine heart unto instruction,
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and thine ears to the words of knowledge. |
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Withhold not correction from the child:
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for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. |
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
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and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
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My son, if thine heart be wise,
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my heart shall rejoice, even mine. |
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Yea, my reins shall rejoice,
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when thy lips speak right things. |
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Let not thine heart envy sinners;
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but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. |
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For surely there is an end;
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and thine expectation shall not be cut off. |
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise,
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and guide thine heart in the way. |
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Be not among winebibbers;
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among riotous eaters of flesh: |
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for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:
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and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. |
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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,
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and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
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Buy the truth, and sell it not;
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also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. |
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice:
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and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. |
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Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,
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and she that bare thee shall rejoice. |
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My son, give me thine heart,
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and let thine eyes observe my ways. |
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For a whore is a deep ditch;
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and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
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She also lieth in wait as for a prey,
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and increaseth the transgressors among men. |
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Who hath woe?
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Who hath sorrow? |
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Who hath contentions? |
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Who hath babbling? |
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Who hath wounds without cause? |
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Who hath redness of eyes? |
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They that tarry long at the wine;
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they that go to seek mixed wine. |
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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,
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when it giveth his color in the cup, |
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when it moveth itself aright. |
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At the last it biteth like a serpent,
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and stingeth like an adder. |
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Thine eyes shall behold strange women,
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and thine heart shall utter perverse things. |
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Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,
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or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. |
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They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;
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they have beaten me, and I felt it not: |
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when shall I awake? |
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I will seek it yet again. |
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