Proverbs 23
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| 1 | When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee. |
| 2 | And put a knife to thy throate, if thou be a man giuen to appetite. |
| 3 | Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitfull meate. |
| 4 | Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome. |
| 5 | Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselues wings, they fly away as an Eagle toward heauen. |
| 6 | Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euill eye, neither desire thou his dainty meates. |
| 7 | For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eate, and drinke, sayth he to thee, but his heart is not with thee. |
| 8 | The morsell which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomite vp, and loose thy sweete words. |
| 9 | Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisedome of thy words. |
| 10 | Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse. |
| 11 | For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. |
| 12 | Apply thine heart vnto instruction, and thine eares to the words of knowledge. |
| 13 | Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. |
| 14 | Thou shalt beate him with the rod, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell. |
| 15 | My sonne, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall reioyce, euen mine. |
| 16 | Yea my reines shall reioyce, when thy lippes speake right things. |
| 17 | Let not thine heart enuy sinners, but be thou in the feare of the Lord all the day long. |
| 18 | For surely there is an end, and thine expectation shall not be cut off. |
| 19 | Heare thou, my sonne, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. |
| 20 | Be not amongst wine-bibbers; amongst riotous eaters of flesh. |
| 21 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges. |
| 22 | Hearken vnto thy father that begate thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
| 23 | Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding. |
| 24 | The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wise child, shall haue ioy of him. |
| 25 | Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce. |
| 26 | My sonne, giue me thine heart, and let thine eyes obserue my wayes. |
| 27 | For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| 28 | She also lyeth in wait as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours among men. |
| 29 | Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath rednesse of eyes? |
| 30 | They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine. |
| 31 | Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is red, when it giueth his colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe aright. |
| 32 | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
| 33 | Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall vtter peruerse things. |
| 34 | Yea thou shalt be as he that lyeth downe in the midst of the sea, or as he that lyeth vpon the top of a mast. |
| 35 | They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe. |