Proverbs 23:2-24

²And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.

³Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.

⁴Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

⁵For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

⁶Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,

⁷For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, 'Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee.

⁸Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.

⁹In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

¹⁰Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

¹¹For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.

¹²Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

¹³Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

¹⁴Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

¹⁵My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

¹⁶And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

¹⁷Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But — in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

¹⁸For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

¹⁹Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

²⁰Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

²¹For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

²²Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

²³Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

²⁴The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.