Provérbios 23

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler,

consider diligently what is before you;

2 put a knife to your throat

if you are a man given to appetite.

3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties,

since they are deceitful food.

4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich.

In your wisdom, show restraint.

5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?

For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,

and don’t crave his delicacies,

7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.

"Eat and drink!" he says to you,

but his heart is not with you.

8 You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten

and waste your pleasant words.

9 Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,

for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

10 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.

Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

11 for their Defender is strong.

He will plead their case against you.

12 Apply your heart to instruction,

and your ears to the words of knowledge.

13 Don’t withhold correction from a child.

If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

14 Punish him with the rod,

and save his soul from Sheol.*23:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

15 My son, if your heart is wise,

then my heart will be glad, even mine.

16 Yes, my heart will rejoice

when your lips speak what is right.

17 Don’t let your heart envy sinners,

but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

18 Indeed surely there is a future hope,

and your hope will not be cut off.

19 Listen, my son, and be wise,

and keep your heart on the right path!

20 Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine,

or those who gorge themselves on meat;

21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;

and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

22 Listen to your father who gave you life,

and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.

Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

24 The father of the righteous has great joy.

Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

25 Let your father and your mother be glad!

Let her who bore you rejoice!

26 My son, give me your heart;

and let your eyes keep in my ways.

27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;

and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,

and increases the unfaithful among men.

29 Who has woe?

Who has sorrow?

Who has strife?

Who has complaints?

Who has needless bruises?

Who has bloodshot eyes?

30 Those who stay long at the wine;

those who go to seek out mixed wine.

31 Don’t look at the wine when it is red,

when it sparkles in the cup,

when it goes down smoothly.

32 In the end, it bites like a snake,

and poisons like a viper.

33 Your eyes will see strange things,

and your mind will imagine confusing things.

34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea,

or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

35 "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 it again.

I will look for more."

1 Ki te noho tahi kōrua ko te rangatira ki te kai,

āta whakaaroa mārietia tērā i tōu aroaro;

2 whakapākia he māripi ki tōu korokoro,

ki te mea he tangata kakai koe.

3 Kaua e hiahia ki āna mea reka;

he kai tinihanga hoki ērā.

4 Kaua e tāruke ki te mea taonga;

kāti tāu mea ki tōu mātauranga.

5 E anga mai rānei ōu kanohi ki taua mea korekore nei?

He pono hoki ka whai parirau te taonga,

koia ānō kei te ēkara, rere ana whaka te rangi.

6 Kaua e kainga te kai a te tangata kanohi kino,

kei minamina hoki koe ki āna mea reka.

7 Ko tāna hoki e mea ai i roto i a ia, pērā tonu ia,

"E kai, e inu!" koia tāna kupu ki a koe;

kāhore ia ōna ngākau ki a koe.

8 Ko te kongakonga i kainga e koe, ka ruakina e koe,

ka maumauria anō hoki āu kupu reka.

9 Kaua e kōrero ki ngā taringa o te kūware;

ka whakahāwea hoki ia ki te whakaaro nui o āu kupu.

10 Kei whakanekehia e koe te rohe tawhito;

kei haere koe ki ngā māra a te pani;

11 nō te mea he kaha tō rātou kaiwhakaora;

ka tohea e ia tā rātou tohe ki a koe.

12 Anga atu tōu ngākau ki te ako,

me ōu taringa ki ngā kupu o te mātauranga.

13 Kaua e tohungia te whiu ki te tamaiti;

ki te patua hoki ia e koe ki te rākau, e kore ia e mate.

14 Tātātia ia e koe ki te rākau,

ā, ka whakaorangia e koe tōna wairua i te rēinga.

15 E tāku tama, ki te whakaaro nui tōu ngākau,

ka koa hoki tōku ngākau, āe rā, tōku nei anō;

16 āe rā, ka hari ōku whatumanawa,

ina kōrero ōu ngutu i ngā mea tika.

17 Kei hae tōu ngākau ki te hunga hara;

engari kia wehi koe ki a Ihowā, ā pau noa te rā.

18 He pono hoki tērā ānō he whakautu;

e kore anō hoki tāu i tūmanako ai e hātepea atu.

19 Whakarongo rā, e tāku tama, kia whai whakaaro hoki koe,

ā, whakatikaia tōu ngākau i te ara.

20 Kei uru ki te hunga kakai wāina;

ki te hunga pukukai kikokiko;

21 nō te mea ka tutuki tahi te tangata inuinu rāua ko te tangata kakai ki te rawakore;

he tawhetawhe hoki te kākahu a te momoe mō te tangata.

22 Whakarongo ki tōu pāpā nāna koe;

kaua hoki e whakahāwea ki tōu whaea ina rūruhi ia.

23 Hokona te pono, kaua hoki e whakawhitiwhitia;

āe rā, te whakaaro nui, te ako hoki, me te mātauranga.

24 Nui atu hoki te koa o te pāpā o te tangata tika;

ā, ko te tangata e whānau he tama whakaaro nui māna, ka hari ia ki a ia.

25 Kia hari tōu pāpā rāua ko tōu whaea,

inā, kia koa te wahine i whānau ai koe.

26 E tāku tama, hōmai tōu ngākau ki ahau,

kia manako anō hoki ōu kanohi ki āku ara.

27 Nō te mea he rua hōhonu te wahine kairau;

he poka kūiti te wahine kē.

28 Āe rā, ka whanga ia ānō he kaipāhua,

ā, ka whakatokomahatia e ia ngā tāngata poka kē.

29 Ko wai e auē? Ko wai e tangi?

Ko wai e totohe? Ko wai e ngangautia?

Ko wai e marū, he mea takekore?

Ko wai e whero tonu ōna kanohi?

30 Ko te hunga e noho roa ana ki te wāina;

ko te hunga e haere ana ki te rapu i te wāina whakaranu.

31 Kaua e titiro ki te wāina i te mea e whero ana,

ina puta tōna kara i roto i te kapu,

ina mania tōna heke.

32 Tōna tukunga iho ānō he nākahi e ngau ana,

koia anō kei te wero a te neke.

33 E kite hoki ōu kanohi i ngā mea rerekē,

ā, ka puta he kupu rerekē i tōu ngākau.

34 Āe rā, ka rite koe ki te tangata e takoto ana i waenga moana,

ki te tangata rānei e takoto ana i te tihi o te rewa.

35 Ā, ka mea koe, "Patua ana ahau e rātou, ā, kīhai ahau i mamae;

tātātia ana ahau e rātou, ā, kīhai ahau i mōhio.

Āhea ahau ara ake ai?

Ka rapua anō e ahau."