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 [art] a man given to appetite.Select Proverbs 23:2

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

4Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.Select Proverbs 23:4

5Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards 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 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 will plead their cause with thee.Select Proverbs 23:11

12Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy 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 thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.Select Proverbs 23:15

16Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.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

18For surely there is an end; and thy expectation 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 wine-bibbers; 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 to 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 bore thee shall rejoice.Select Proverbs 23:25

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

27For a lewd woman [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 its color 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

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

34And 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, [wilt 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