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23 When you sit down to eat a meal with someone who rules over others,
pay attention to the food that is in front of you.
2 Restrain yourself from eating too much
if you like eating a lot of food.
3 Do not crave the expensive food that the ruler has
because that ruler is using that food to deceive you.
4 Do not work so much that you exhaust yourself in order to become rich.
Be understanding enough to stop doing so.
5 As soon as you look at that wealth, it will surely be gone!
This is because wealth certainly disappears quickly as if it had wings
and flew off into the sky like a fast bird.
6 Do not eat food that stingy people give you.
Do not crave the expensive food that they have,
7 because stingy people are always thinking about how much the food costs them.
They will tell you to eat and drink,
but they do not mean what they say.
8 When you realize this, you will want to vomit what little food you ate.
You will have wasted the kind things you said to them.
9 Do not directly address foolish people
because they will only despise the insightful things that you say.
10 Do not cheat people by moving the old stones that mark the boundaries of their land.
Do not claim the land that belongs to defenseless orphans,
11 because Yahweh is the one who redeems them (and he is powerful.
He is the one who will defend them when they dispute with you.
12 Consider carefully what people say when they correct you.
Indeed, listen carefully to what people teach you.
13 Do not refuse to discipline your children.
If you physically punish them, they will not die.
14 Physically punish your children,
so that you may prevent them from dying.
15 My child, if you are wise,
then surely I myself will be very happy,
16 and I will sincerely rejoice
when you say what is right.
17 Do not envy sinful people;
instead always reverently fear Yahweh.
18 If you do so, then you will surely have a good future,
and what you hope will happen will indeed occur!
19 My child, listen to me so that you can become wise.
Make yourself think about behaving rightly.
20 Stay away from drunkards and gluttons,
21 because drunkards and gluttons will become poor.
They sleep so much that they will only have rags to wear.
22 Pay attention to your father, who enabled you to exist;
and do not scorn your mother when she becomes old.
23 Learn what is true and remember it.
Learn what is wise and instructive and what you should understand.
24 Fathers of righteous people are very joyful.
Indeed, those who father wise people are happy because of them.
25 So do what will make your parents happy!
Do what will make your mother joyful!
26 My son, pay close attention to me!
Carefully observe what I do!
27 Do this because prostitutes are as dangerous as a deep hole.
Indeed, adulterous women are as dangerous as a well you cannot escape from.
28 These very women certainly wait for men to seduce like robbers wait for people to rob.
They cause many men to become unfaithful.
29 These are the kind of people who are woeful, sorrowful, and quarrelsome,
who lament, get hurt for no reason,
and have red eyes:
30 those people who drink too much wine
and are always looking around for wine to drink that someone has prepared.
31 Do not even look with pleasure at wine, even though it is beautifully red, glistens in the cup,
and goes down your throat smoothly.
32 Afterward the wine only harms you as if a poisonous snake had bitten you.
33 When you are drunk, you will hallucinate,
and you will speak perversely.
34 You will feel dizzy as if you were trying to sleep on a ship that the sea was tossing back and forth.
Indeed, you will feel as if you were trying to sleep while swaying at the top of a ship’s sails.
35 You will say, “People hit me, but it did not hurt.
People beat me, but I did not feel it.
I wish I could be sober
so that I could find even more wine to drink again!”
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