- 1
- When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
- 2
- and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
- 3
- Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
- 4
- Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
- 5
- When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
- 6
- Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,
- 7
- for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
- 8
- You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
- 9
- Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
- 10
- Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
- 11
- for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
- 12
- Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
- 13
- Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
- 14
- If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
- 15
- My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
- 16
- My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
- 17
- Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
- 18
- Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
- 19
- Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
- 20
- Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
- 21
- for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
- 22
- Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- 23
- Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
- 24
- The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
- 25
- Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
- 26
- My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
- 27
- For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
- 28
- She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.
- 29
- Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
- 30
- Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine.
- 31
- Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
- 32
- In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
- 33
- Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
- 34
- You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
- 35
- “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
Október 5
Kétéves:
- I. év: 1Sám 19
- II. év: Ez 40
- Kol 1:21-2:7
- Zsolt 77:1-20
- Péld 24:23-25
Példabeszéd
hogy ne másoknak add ékességedet és esztendeidet a kegyetlennek,