23Proverbs 23

1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,Select Proverbs 23:1

2And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.Select Proverbs 23:2

3Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.Select Proverbs 23:3

4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.Select Proverbs 23:4

5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.Select Proverbs 23:5

6Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,Select Proverbs 23:6

7For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee.Select Proverbs 23:7

8Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.Select Proverbs 23:8

9In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.Select Proverbs 23:9

10Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,Select Proverbs 23:10

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

12Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.Select Proverbs 23:12

13Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.Select Proverbs 23:13

14Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.Select Proverbs 23:14

15My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,Select Proverbs 23:15

16And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.Select Proverbs 23:16

17Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But--in the fear of Jehovah all the day.Select Proverbs 23:17

18For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.Select Proverbs 23:18

19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,Select Proverbs 23:19

20Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,Select Proverbs 23:20

21For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.Select Proverbs 23:21

22Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.Select Proverbs 23:22

23Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,Select Proverbs 23:23

24The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.Select Proverbs 23:24

25Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.Select Proverbs 23:25

26Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.Select Proverbs 23:26

27For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.Select Proverbs 23:27

28She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.Select Proverbs 23:28

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

30Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.Select Proverbs 23:30

31See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.Select Proverbs 23:31

32Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.Select Proverbs 23:32

33Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.Select Proverbs 23:33

34And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.Select Proverbs 23:34

35`They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake--I seek it yet again!'Select Proverbs 23:35