Proverbs 23:2-19

²Even if you ◄have a big appetite/want to eat a lot of food►, restrain yourself.

³Do not want to eat a lot of his fine food, because he may be trying to trick you.

⁴Do not cause yourself to become very tired by working very hard to become rich; be wise and stop doing that,

⁵because as soon as you look MTY at all the money that you have acquired, it will be gone; it will disappear as if it suddenly grew wings SIM and flew up into the sky like an eagle.

⁶If someone who is stingy invites you to a meal, do not eat a lot of his fine food,

⁷because he will be thinking about how much the food cost that you are eating. He will say to you, “Eat and drink all that you want!”, but that is not what he will really be thinking.

⁸When you realize what he is really thinking, it will cause you to want to vomit what you have eaten; and your kind words telling him that you are enjoying the meal will be wasted.

⁹◄Do not waste time by/It is useless► talking to foolish people; they will only despise the wise things that you say.

¹⁰Do not steal someone's property by removing a boundary marker that has been there for a long time, and do not take for yourself the land that belongs to orphans,

¹¹because Yahweh is strong, and he is like a relative that has the responsibility to defend them, he will stand up in court and argue for them and against you.

¹²Pay attention to what your teachers teach you, and try to learn from the wise things that they say.

¹³Do not refuse to discipline your children; if you punish/spank them, it will not cause them to die,

¹⁴and it may save them from going to the place where dead people are.

¹⁵My son/child, if you SYN become wise, I SYN will be very happy.

¹⁶I SYN will rejoice when I hear you SYN say what is right/wise.

¹⁷Do not envy sinful people; instead, revere Yahweh all of your life.

¹⁸If you do that, you will be happy in the future, and God will certainly do for you what you are confidently expecting him to do.

¹⁹My son/child, listen carefully to me and become wise, and think about ◄all that you do/your behavior►.