LEB PRO chapter 23

LEB PRO Chapter 23

you shall surely observe what is before you,
2  if you have a[fn]
3  for[fn] it is food of deception.
4 in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist.
5 [fn] on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings
like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.
6 [fn] and do not desire his delicacies.
7 [fn] so it is.[fn] “Eat and drink!” he will say to you,
but his heart will not be with you.
8  and you will waste your pleasant words.
9  for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10  and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
11  he himself will plead their cause against you.
12 [fn] to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13  if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14  and his life[fn] you will save from Sheol.[fn]
15 [fn] is wise, my heart will be glad—even me!
16 [fn] will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.
17 [fn] not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh[fn]
18 [fn] there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19  and direct your heart[fn] on the road.
20  among gluttonous eaters of[fn]
21  and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
22 [fn] and do not despise your mother when[fn] she is old.
23 it, wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24  he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.
25  and may she who bore you rejoice.
26 [fn] to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.
27 [fn] and a narrow well is[fn]
28 is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
29 is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?
30  to those who come to try mixed wine.
31  when it[fn] on the cup,
going down smoothly.
32 [fn] it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.
33  and your heart[fn] will speak perverse things.
34  and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
35 it. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.”

?:? Literally “lord/master of life”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “cause to fly”

?:? Literally “stingy of eye”

?:? Literally “soul,” or “inner self”

?:? Or “is he”

?:? Or “mind”

?:? Or “soul,” or “inner self”

?:? A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld

?:? Or “mind”

?:? Literally “kidneys”

?:? Or “mind”

?:? Literally “all the day”

?:? Literally “For if”

?:? Or “mind”

?:? Literally “meat for them”

?:? Literally “caused you to be born”

?:? Or “for, because”

?:? Or “mind”

?:? Or “whore”

?:? Literally “a foreign woman”

?:? Literally “gives its eye”

?:? Literally “end him”

?:? Or “mind”