Proverbs Chapter 23
23:1 | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: |
23:2 | And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite. |
23:3 | Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful ![]() |
23:4 | Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. |
23:5 | Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. |
23:6 | Eat thou not the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
23:7 | For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and ![]() |
23:8 | The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. |
23:9 | Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. |
23:10 | Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
23:11 | For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. |
23:12 | Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. |
23:13 | Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. |
23:14 | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from ![]() |
23:15 | My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. |
23:16 | Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. |
23:17 | Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the ![]() |
23:18 | For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. |
23:19 | Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. |
23:20 | Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: |
23:21 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags. |
23:22 | Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
23:23 | Buy the ![]() |
23:24 | The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him. |
23:25 | Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. |
23:26 | My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. |
23:27 | For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. |
23:28 | She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. |
23:29 | Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? |
23:30 | They that tarry long at the ![]() ![]() |
23:31 | Look not thou upon the ![]() |
23:32 | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
23:33 | Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. |
23:34 | Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. |
23:35 | They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. |