Proverbs 23
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Saying 7
1When you sit to dine with a ruler,
note well what#23:1 Or who is before you,
2and put a knife to your throat
if you are given to gluttony.
3Do not crave his delicacies,
for that food is deceptive.
Saying 8
4Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
5Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
Saying 9
6Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
do not crave his delicacies;
7for he is the kind of person
who is always thinking about the cost.#23:7 Or for as he thinks within himself, / so he is; or for as he puts on a feast, / so he is
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
8You will vomit up the little you have eaten
and will have wasted your compliments.
Saying 10
9Do not speak to fools,
for they will scorn your prudent words.
Saying 11
10Do not move an ancient boundary stone
or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11for their Defender is strong;
he will take up their case against you.
Saying 12
12Apply your heart to instruction
and your ears to words of knowledge.
Saying 13
13Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
14Punish them with the rod
and save them from death.
Saying 14
15My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed;
16my inmost being will rejoice
when your lips speak what is right.
Saying 15
17Do not let your heart envy sinners,
but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.
18There is surely a future hope for you,
and your hope will not be cut off.
Saying 16
19Listen, my son, and be wise,
and set your heart on the right path:
20Do not join those who drink too much wine
or gorge themselves on meat,
21for drunkards and gluttons become poor,
and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Saying 17
22Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23Buy the truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, instruction and insight as well.
24The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
25May your father and mother rejoice;
may she who gave you birth be joyful!
Saying 18
26My son, give me your heart
and let your eyes delight in my ways,
27for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,
and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28Like a bandit she lies in wait
and multiplies the unfaithful among men.
Saying 19
29Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30Those who linger over wine,
who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
31Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it goes down smoothly!
32In the end it bites like a snake
and poisons like a viper.
33Your eyes will see strange sights,
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
34You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying on top of the rigging.
35“They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!
They beat me, but I don’t feel it!
When will I wake up
so I can find another drink?”
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Proverbs 23
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Proverbs 23
1¶ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee;
2and put a knife to thy throat if thou art a man given to appetite.
3Do not be desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
4¶ Do not labour to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon riches which are not? For they shall certainly make themselves wings; they shall fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6¶ Do not eat the bread of anyone who has an evil eye, neither desire his dainty foods;
7for as he thinks in his soul, so is he; Eat and drink, he shall say unto thee, but his heart is not with thee.
8Didst thou eat thy part? Thou shalt vomit it up and lose thy sweet words.
9¶ Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the prudence of thy words.
10¶ Do not remove the old landmark, and do not enter into the inheritance of the fatherless:
11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall judge their cause against thee.
12¶ Apply thine heart unto chastening and thine ears to the words of wisdom.
13Do not withhold correction from the child; for if thou shall beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
14Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
15My son, if thy heart is wise, my heart shall also rejoice;
16my kidneys shall also rejoice when thy lips speak right things.
17¶ Let not thy heart envy sinners, but persevere in the fear of the Lord all day long.
18For surely there is an end, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
19¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and straighten thy heart in the way.
20Do not be among those who are drunk with wine; nor among gluttonous eaters of food;
21for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cause them to wear rags.
22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23Buy the truth and sell it not, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begets a wise child shall have joy with him.
25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.
26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27For a whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28She also lies in wait as for a prey and increases the transgressors among men.
29¶ For who shall be the woe? for who shall be the woe? for who contention? for who quarrels? for who the wounds without cause? who shall have redness of eyes?
30For those that tarry long at the wine; those that go to seek mixed wine.
31Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its colour in the cup, it goes down smoothly.
32At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea or as he that sleeps at the rudder.
35They have stricken me, thou shalt say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not; when I shall awake, I will seek it yet again.
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