Proverbs 23
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
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| 1 | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well 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 it? it is gone; 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 one that hath reckoned 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 ears 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 with thee. |
| 12 | Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge. |
| 13 | Withhold not correction from the child; For though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. |
| 14 | Thou beatest him with the rod, And wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world. |
| 15 | My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine; |
| 16 | Yea, my reins will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things. |
| 17 | Let not thy heart envy sinners, But be in the fear of the LORD all the day; |
| 18 | For surely there is a future; 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 shall clothe a man with rags. |
| 22 | Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old. |
| 23 | Buy the truth, and sell it not; also 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 bore thee rejoice. |
| 26 | My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. . |
| 27 | For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit. |
| 28 | She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men. |
| 29 | Who crieth: ‘Woe’? who: ‘Alas’? Who hath contentions? who hath raving? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? |
| 30 | They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to try mixed wine. |
| 31 | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, When it glideth down smoothly; |
| 32 | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk. |
| 33 | Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter confused 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 struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.’ |