23Proverbs 23

1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:Select Proverbs 23:1

2And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.Select Proverbs 23:2

3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.Select Proverbs 23:3

4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.Select Proverbs 23:4

5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.Select Proverbs 23:5

6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:Select Proverbs 23:6

7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.Select Proverbs 23:7

8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.Select Proverbs 23:8

9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.Select Proverbs 23:9

10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:Select Proverbs 23:10

11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.Select Proverbs 23:11

12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.Select Proverbs 23:12

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

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

15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.Select Proverbs 23:15

16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.Select Proverbs 23:16

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

18For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.Select Proverbs 23:18

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

20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:Select Proverbs 23:20

21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.Select Proverbs 23:21

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

23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.Select Proverbs 23:23

24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.Select Proverbs 23:24

25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.Select Proverbs 23:25

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

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

28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.Select Proverbs 23:28

29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?Select Proverbs 23:29

30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.Select Proverbs 23:30

31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.Select Proverbs 23:31

32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.Select Proverbs 23:32

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

34Yea, 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.Select Proverbs 23:34

35They 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.Select Proverbs 23:35