23Proverbs 23

1When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face:Select Proverbs 23:1

2And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.Select Proverbs 23:2

3Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.Select Proverbs 23:3

4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.Select Proverbs 23:4

5Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.Select Proverbs 23:5

6Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:Select Proverbs 23:6

7Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.Select Proverbs 23:7

8The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.Select Proverbs 23:8

9Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.Select Proverbs 23:9

10Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:Select Proverbs 23:10

11For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.Select Proverbs 23:11

12Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.Select Proverbs 23:12

13Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.Select Proverbs 23:13

14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.Select Proverbs 23:14

15My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:Select Proverbs 23:15

16And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.Select Proverbs 23:16

17Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:Select Proverbs 23:17

18Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.Select Proverbs 23:18

19Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.Select Proverbs 23:19

20Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:Select Proverbs 23:20

21Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.Select Proverbs 23:21

22Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.Select Proverbs 23:22

23Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.Select Proverbs 23:23

24The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.Select Proverbs 23:24

25Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.Select Proverbs 23:25

26My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.Select Proverbs 23:26

27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.Select Proverbs 23:27

28She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.Select Proverbs 23:28

29Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?Select Proverbs 23:29

30Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.Select Proverbs 23:30

31Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,Select Proverbs 23:31

32But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.Select Proverbs 23:32

33Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.Select Proverbs 23:33

34And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.Select Proverbs 23:34

35And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?Select Proverbs 23:35