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22:22. Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not
oppress the needy in the gate:
22:23. Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that
have afflicted his soul.
22:24. Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious
man:
22:25. Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.
22:26. Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer
themselves sureties for debts:
22:27. For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there
that he should take the covering from thy bed?
22:28. Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.
22:29. Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before
kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.
Proverbs Chapter 23
23:1. When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what
is set before thy face:
23:2. And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul
in thy own power.
23:3. Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
23:4. Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
23:5. Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because
they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly
towards heaven.
23:6. Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
23:7. Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he
knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not
with thee.
23:8. The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt
lose thy beantiful words.
23:9. Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the
instruction of thy speech.
23:10. Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field
of the fatherless:
23:11. For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause
against thee.
23:12. Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words
of knowledge.
23:13. Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with
the rod, he shall not die.
23:14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
23:15. My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
23:16. And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is
right.
23:17. Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the
Lord all the day long:
23:18. Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy
expectation shall not be taken away.
23:19. Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
23:20. Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings,
who contribute flesh to eat:
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