잠언 23장 NASB
- 1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler Consider carefully what is before you
- 2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite.
- 3 Do not desire his delicacies For it is deceptive food.
- 4 Do not weary yourself to gain wealth Cease from your consideration of it.
- 5 When you set your eyes on it it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
- 6 Do not eat the bread of a selfish man Or desire his delicacies;
- 7 For as he thinks within himself so he is. He says to you "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you.
- 8 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten And waste your compliments.
- 9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- 10 Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless
- 11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
- 12 Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge.
- 13 Do not hold back discipline from the child Although you strike him with the rod he will not die.
- 14 You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol.
- 15 My son if your heart is wise My own heart also will be glad;
- 16 And my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.
- 17 Do not let your heart envy sinners But live in the fear of the LORD always.
- 18 Surely there is a future And your hope will not be cut off.
- 19 Listen my son and be wise And direct your heart in the way.
- 20 Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
- 21 For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
- 22 Listen to your father who begot you And do not despise your mother when she is old.
- 23 Buy truth and do not sell it Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
- 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.
- 25 Let your father and your mother be glad And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
- 26 Give me your heart my son And let your eyes delight in my ways.
- 27 For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.
- 28 Surely she lurks as a robber And increases the faithless among men.
- 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
- 30 Those who linger long over wine Those who go to taste mixed wine.
- 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red When it sparkles in the cup When it goes down smoothly;
- 32 At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.
- 33 Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things.
- 34 And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.
- 35 "They struck me but I did not become ill; They beat me but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."