September 17: Proverbs 23–24; Titus 2; Psalm 72; Proverbs 23:26–28
Old Testament: Proverbs 23–24 Proverbs 23–24 (Listen) 23 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,<br /> observe carefully what1 is before you,<br />2 and put a knife to your throat<br /> if you are given to appetite.<br />3 Do not desire his delicacies,<br /> for they are deceptive food.<br />4 Do not toil to acquire wealth;<br /> be discerning enough to desist.<br />5 When your eyes light on it, it is gone,<br /> for suddenly it sprouts wings,<br /> flying like an eagle toward heaven.<br />6 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;2<br /> do not desire his delicacies,<br />7 for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.3<br /> “Eat and drink!” he says to you,<br /> but his heart is not with you.<br />8 You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,<br /> and waste your pleasant words.<br />9 Do n
