23Proverbs 23

1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that 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; seeing they are deceitful food.Select Proverbs 23:3

4Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.Select Proverbs 23:4

5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.Select Proverbs 23:5

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

7For as one that hath reckoned within himself, 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 ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;Select Proverbs 23:10

11For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause with thee.Select Proverbs 23:11

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

13Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.Select Proverbs 23:13

14Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.Select Proverbs 23:14

15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine;Select Proverbs 23:15

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

17Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of the LORD all the day;Select Proverbs 23:17

18For surely there is a future; and thy hope shall not be cut off.Select Proverbs 23:18

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

20Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous 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 begot 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 will greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.Select Proverbs 23:24

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

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

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

28She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men.Select Proverbs 23:28

29Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? 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 try mixed wine.Select Proverbs 23:30

31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly;Select Proverbs 23:31

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

33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter confused 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

35'They have struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.'Select Proverbs 23:35