Proverbs 23:1 - Forerunner Commentary

Proverbs 23:1

1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is before you;

2 And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man given to appetite.

3 Do not desire his delicacies,
For they are deceptive food.

4 ^aDo not overwork to be rich;
^bBecause of your own understanding, cease!

5 ¹Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

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Interlinear Bible for Proverbs 23:1:

When
kiy (#3588) thou sittest
yashab (#3427) to eat
lacham (#3898) with
'eth (#854) a ruler,
mashal (#4910) consider diligently
biyn (#995)
'eth (#853) what
'aher (#834) is before
paniym (#6440)

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