Tua Palavra

|Provérbios 23:1| When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what ¹ is before you,

|Provérbios 23:2| and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

|Provérbios 23:3| ^a Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

|Provérbios 23:4| ^b Do not toil to acquire wealth; ^c be discerning enough to desist.

|Provérbios 23:5| When your eyes light on it, it is gone, ^d for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

|Provérbios 23:6| ^e Do not eat the bread of a man who is ^f stingy; ² ^g do not desire his delicacies,

|Provérbios 23:7| for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. ³ “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his ^h heart is not with you.

|Provérbios 23:8| You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.

|Provérbios 23:9| Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

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|Provérbios 23:10| ⁱ Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,