来自{publisher｝1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what[1] is before you,2and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.3Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. (箴23:6)4Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. (箴3:5; 箴3:7; 箴15:27; 箴26:12; 箴28:20; 赛5:21; 太6:19; 羅12:16; 提前6:9; 來13:5)5When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. (箴27:24)6Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;[2] do not desire his delicacies, (申15:9; 诗141:4; 箴23:3; 箴28:22)7for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.[3] “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. (诗12:2)8You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.10Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, (箴22:28)11for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you. (出6:6; 伯19:25; 箴22:23)12Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.13Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. (箴13:24; 箴19:18)14If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol. (林前5:5)15My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. (箴23:24; 箴29:3)16My inmost being[4] will exult when your lips speak what is right. (诗7:9; 诗73:21; 箴8:6)17Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day. (诗37:1; 箴28:14)18Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. (诗9:18; 箴24:14; 箴24:20)19Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. (箴6:6; 箴9:6)20Be not among drunkards[5] or among gluttonous eaters of meat, (箴23:29; 箴28:7; 赛5:11; 赛5:22; 太24:49; 路21:34; 羅13:13; 弗5:18)21for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags. (箴6:10)22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. (箴1:8; 箴30:17)23Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. (箴4:5; 箴4:7; 箴18:15; 太13:44)24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. (箴23:15; 箴29:3)25Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice. (箴17:25; 箴23:24)26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe[6] my ways.27For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress[7] is a narrow well. (诗55:23; 箴2:16; 箴22:14)28She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind. (箴7:12; 传7:26)29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? (创49:12; 箴23:20; 箴23:35)30Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. (诗75:8; 箴9:2; 箴9:5; 赛5:11; 赛5:22; 赛65:11)31Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.32In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. (伯20:16)33Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. (箴2:12)34You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.[8]35“They struck me,” you will say,[9] “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.” (箴23:29; 赛56:12; 耶5:3)