1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you, | TOSK |
2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite. | C | TOSK |
3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive. | C | TOSK |
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. | C | TOSK |
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky. | C | TOSK |
6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies; | C | TOSK |
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. | C | TOSK |
8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. | TOSK |
9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. | TOSK |
10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, | TOSK |
11 for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you. | TOSK |
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. | TOSK |
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. | TOSK |
14 Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol. | TOSK |
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice. | TOSK |
16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. | TOSK |
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD. | TOSK |
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. | TOSK |
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course. | C | TOSK |
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. | C | TOSK |
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags. | C | TOSK |
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. | C | TOSK |
23 Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding. | C | TOSK |
24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him. | C | TOSK |
25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice! | C | TOSK |
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways. | C | TOSK |
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. | TOSK |
28 Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men. | TOSK |
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? | TOSK |
30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. | TOSK |
31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. | IP | C | TOSK |
32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. | C | TOSK |
33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. | C | TOSK |
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast: | TOSK |
35 “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?” | TOSK |