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The Proverbs

Chapter 23

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Pr 23:1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;
Pr 23:2And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
Pr 23:3Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.
Pr 23:4Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
Pr 23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
Pr 23:6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
Pr 23:7For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
Pr 23:8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
Pr 23:9Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Pr 23:10Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Pr 23:11For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
Pr 23:12Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Pr 23:13Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Pr 23:14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
Pr 23:15My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
Pr 23:16Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
Pr 23:17Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:
Pr 23:18For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.
Pr 23:19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
Pr 23:20Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
Pr 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
Pr 23:22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Pr 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Pr 23:24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
Pr 23:25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
Pr 23:26My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
Pr 23:27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
Pr 23:28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Pr 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
Pr 23:30They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.
Pr 23:31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:
Pr 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
Pr 23:33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Pr 23:34Yea, 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.
Pr 23:35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.