Proverbs 23:2-26

²And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

³Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

⁴Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

⁵Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

⁶Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

⁷For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

⁸The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

⁹Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

¹⁰Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.

¹²Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

¹³Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

¹⁵My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

¹⁶Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

¹⁷Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

¹⁸For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.

¹⁹Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.

²⁰Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

²²Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

²³Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

²⁴The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

²⁵Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

²⁶My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.