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Proverbs 23:3-20

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3Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
4Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
5Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
6Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
7For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
8The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
9Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
10Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
11For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
12Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
14Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
15My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
16And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
17Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
18For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
20Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

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