Proverbs 23:12-Proverbs 24:22 - Learning From Your Father
12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14 As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol.
15 My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad--even me! 16 And my {insides} will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.
17 May your heart not envy the sinners, but [live] in fear of Yahweh {all day}. 18 {Surely} there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road 20 Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of {their meat}. 21 For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and [with] rags, drowsiness will clothe them
22 Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Buy truth and do not sell [it], wisdom and instruction and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him. 25 May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.
26 My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways. 27 For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}. 28 She [is] also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
29 To whom [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 linger over wine, to those who come to try mixed wine. 31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it {sparkles} on the cup, going down smoothly. 32 {In the end}, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things. 34 And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast. 35 "They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know [it]. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again."
1 Do not envy men of evil, and do not desire to be with them. 2 For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.
3 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established. 4 And by knowledge, rooms are filled [with] all riches, precious and pleasant.
5 The warrior of wisdom [is] in strength, and a man of knowledge is strong [in] power. 6 For with wise guidance you shall make war for yourself, and victory [is] in an abundance of counsel.
7 Wisdom [is too] high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
8 He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief." 9 Devising folly [is] a sin, and an abomination to humankind [is] a scoffer.
10 [If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength. 11 Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back, 12 if you say, "Look, we do not know this," does not he who weighs hearts perceive [it]? And he who keeps your soul, he knows and will repay humankind according to his deeds.
13 My child, eat honey, for [it is] good, and the dripping of the honeycomb [is] sweet to your taste. 14 Thus know wisdom for [the sake of] your soul, if you find [it], then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
15 Do not lie in wait [like] an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence [to] his dwelling place. 16 For seven [times] the righteous will fall, but he will rise, but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity.
17 While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad 18 lest Yahweh see and [it] be evil in his eyes, and turn his anger away from him.
19 Do not fret because of the evildoers; do not envy the wicked. 20 For there will not be a future for the evil; the lamp of the wicked will die out.
21 Fear Yahweh, my son, and the king; with those who change, do not associate. 22 For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of {both of them}, who knows?