en_wbms - Pro 23 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ When thou sittest to eat with the prince, perceive thou diligently what things be set before thy face,

² and set thou a coulter in thy throat. If nevertheless thou hast power on thy soul,

³ desire thou not of his meats, in whom is the bread of lying.

⁴ Do not thou travail to be made rich, but set thou measure to thy prudence.

⁵ Raise not thine eyes to riches, which thou mayest not have; for those [or they] shall make to them-selves pens or wings, as of an eagle, and they shall fly into heaven.

⁶ Eat thou not with an envious man, and desire thou not his meats;

⁷ for at the likeness of a false diviner, and of a conjecturer, that is, expounder of dreams, he guesseth that, that he knoweth not. He shall say to thee, Eat thou and drink; and his soul is not with thee.

⁸ Thou shalt spew out the meat, which thou hast eaten; and thou shalt lose thy fair words.

⁹ Speak thou not in the ears of unwise men; for they shall despise the teaching of thy speech.

¹⁰ Touch thou not the terms, or the boundary stones, of little children; and enter thou not into the field of fatherless and motherless children.

¹¹ For the neighbour of them is strong, and he shall deem their cause against thee.

¹² Thine heart enter to teaching, and thine ears to the words of knowing.

¹³ Do not thou withdraw chastising or discipline, from a child; for though thou smitest him with a rod, he shall not die.

¹⁴ Thou shalt smite him with a rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hell.

¹⁵ My son, if thy soul is wise, mine heart shall have joy with thee;

¹⁶ and my reins shall make full out joy, when thy lips speak rightful [or right] things.

¹⁷ Thine heart pursue [or follow] not sinners; but be thou in the dread of the Lord all day.

¹⁸ For thou shalt have hope at the last, and thine abiding shall not be done away.

¹⁹ My son, hear thou, and be wise, and address thy soul in the way.

²⁰ Do not thou be in the feasts of drinkers, neither in the oft eatings of them, that bring together fleshes to eat.

²¹ For men giving attention to drinks, and giving morsels together, shall be wasted, and napping shall be clothed with clothes rent.

²² Hear thy father, that begat thee; and despise not thy mother, when she is eld.

²³ Buy thou truth, and do not thou sell wisdom, and doctrine, and understanding.

²⁴ The father of a just [or rightwise] man joyeth full out with joy; he that begat a wise man, shall be glad in him.

²⁵ Thy father and thy mother have joy, and he that begat thee, make full out joy.

²⁶ My son, give thine heart to me, and thine eyes keep my ways.

²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch, and an alien woman, is a strait pit.

²⁸ She setteth ambush in the way, as a thief; and shall add despisers in men, that is, shall multiply despisers of God among men.

²⁹ To whom is woe? to whose father is woe? to whom be chidings? to whom be ditches? to whom be wounds without cause? to whom is putting out of eyes?

³⁰ Whether not to them, that dwell in wine, and study to drink [up] all of cups?

³¹ Behold thou not [the] wine, when it sparkleth, when the colour thereof shineth in a glass cup. It entereth sweetly,

³² but at the last it shall bite as an adder, and as a cockatrice it shall shed abroad venoms.

³³ Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak wayward things.

³⁴ And thou shalt be as a man sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a governor asleeped [or sleeping], when the steering, either the instrument of governance, is lost.

³⁵ And thou shalt say, They beat me, but I had not sorrow; they drew me, and I feeled not; when shall I wake out, and I shall find wines again?