Verse 11
Proverbs 23:11
Bible in Basic English
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For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי גֹאֲלָ֥/ם חָזָ֑ק הֽוּא יָרִ֖יב אֶת רִיבָ֣/ם אִתָּֽ/ךְ
English Translation
For your Redeemer is strong; He will plead your cause with you.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
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And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
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Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
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Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
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Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight...
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Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
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For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart i...
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The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
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9
Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
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10
Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no fa...
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11
For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
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Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
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13
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not b...
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Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
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15
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
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And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
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Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
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For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
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20
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full...
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For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep...
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Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old...
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23
Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and goo...
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24
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him...
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25
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
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26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
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27
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
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28
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
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29
Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause,...
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Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
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Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when i...
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32
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
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33
Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
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Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
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They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them:...
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