Verse 23
Proverbs 23:23
GOD'S WORD Translation
23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֱמֶ֣ת קְ֭נֵה וְ/אַל תִּמְכֹּ֑ר חָכְמָ֖ה וּ/מוּסָ֣ר וּ/בִינָֽה
English Translation
Acquire truth and do not sell wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 23 Context
1
When you sit to eat with a ruler,
consider diligently what is before you;
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put a knife to your throat,
if you are a man given to appetite.
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Don’t be desirous of his dainties,
since they are deceitful food.
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Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
In your wisdom, show restraint.
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Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flie...
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Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
and don’t crave his delicacies:
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for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
but his heart is not wit...
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The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,
and lose your good words.
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Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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10
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.
Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
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for their Defender is strong.
He will plead their case against you.
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Apply your heart to instruction,
and your ears to the words of knowledge.
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Don’t withhold correction from a child.
If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
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Punish him with the rod,
and save his soul from Sheol.
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My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad, even mine:
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yes, my heart will rejoice,
when your lips speak what is right.
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Don’t let your heart envy sinners;
but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
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Indeed surely there is a future hope,
and your hope will not be cut off.
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Listen, my son, and be wise,
and keep your heart on the right path!
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Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine,
or those who gorge themselves on meat:
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for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;
and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
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Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
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The father of the righteous has great joy.
Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
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Let your father and your mother be glad!
Let her who bore you rejoice!
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My son, give me your heart;
and let your eyes keep in my ways.
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For a prostitute is a deep pit;
and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
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Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,
and increases the unfaithful among men.
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Who has woe?
Who has sorrow?
Who has strife?
Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises?
Who has b...
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Those who stay long at the wine;
those who go to seek out mixed wine.
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Don’t look at the wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it goes down smoothly.
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In the end, it bites like a snake,
and poisons like a viper.
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Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
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Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea,
or as he who lies on top of the riggi...
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“They hit me, and I was not hurt!
They beat me, and I don’t feel it!
When will I wake up? I can do i...
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