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