23Proverbs 23

CHAP. XXIII.

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

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

3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitfull meate.Select Proverbs 23:3

4Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome.Select Proverbs 23:4

5Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselues wings, they fly away as an Eagle toward heauen.Select Proverbs 23:5

6Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euill eye, neither desire thou his dainty meates.Select Proverbs 23:6

7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eate, and drinke, sayth he to thee, but his heart is not with thee.Select Proverbs 23:7

8The morsell which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomite vp, and loose thy sweete words.Select Proverbs 23:8

9Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisedome of thy words.Select Proverbs 23:9

10Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse.Select Proverbs 23:10

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

12Apply thine heart vnto instruction, and thine eares 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 beate him with the rod, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.Select Proverbs 23:14

15My sonne, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall reioyce, euen mine.Select Proverbs 23:15

16Yea my reines shall reioyce, when thy lippes speake right things.Select Proverbs 23:16

17Let not thine heart enuy sinners, but be thou in the feare 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

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

20Be not amongst wine-bibbers; amongst riotous eaters of flesh.Select Proverbs 23:20

21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges.Select Proverbs 23:21

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

23Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding.Select Proverbs 23:23

24The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wise child, shall haue ioy of him.Select Proverbs 23:24

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

26My sonne, giue me thine heart, and let thine eyes obserue my wayes.Select Proverbs 23:26

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

28She also lyeth in wait as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours 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 rednesse of eyes?Select Proverbs 23:29

30They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine.Select Proverbs 23:30

31Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is red, when it giueth his colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe 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 vtter peruerse things.Select Proverbs 23:33

34Yea thou shalt be as he that lyeth downe in the midst of the sea, or as he that lyeth vpon the top of a mast.Select Proverbs 23:34

35They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe.Select Proverbs 23:35