PR-23:1  When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider 
diligently what [is]

before thee:

PR-23:2  And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given 
to appetite.

PR-23:3  Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] 
deceitful meat.

PR-23:4  Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

PR-23:5  Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for 
[riches]

certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle 
toward heaven.

PR-23:6  Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, 
neither desire

thou his dainty meats:

PR-23:7  For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and 
drink, saith he

to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.

PR-23:8  The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, 
and lose thy

sweet words.

PR-23:9  Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise 
the wisdom of

thy words.

PR-23:10  Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the 
fields of the

fatherless:

PR-23:11  For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their 
cause with

thee.

PR-23:12  Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to 
the words of

knowledge.

PR-23:13  Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou 
beatest him

with the rod, he shall not die.

PR-23:14  Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver 
his soul from

hell.

PR-23:15  My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice,
 even mine.

PR-23:16  Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right 
things.

PR-23:17  Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the 
fear of the

LORD all the day long.

PR-23:18  For surely there is an end; and thine expectation 
shall not be cut

off.

PR-23:19  Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart 
in the way.

PR-23:20  Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of 
flesh:

PR-23:21  For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:
 and

drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.

PR-23:22  Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise 
not thy mother

when she is old.

PR-23:23  Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and 
instruction,

and understanding.

PR-23:24  The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and 
he that

begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.

PR-23:25  Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that 
bare thee

shall rejoice.

PR-23:26  My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes 
observe my ways.

PR-23:27  For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman 
[is] a narrow

pit.

PR-23:28  She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth 
the

transgressors among men.

PR-23:29  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? 
who hath

babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of 
eyes?

PR-23:30  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek 
mixed wine.

PR-23:31  Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it 
giveth his

colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.

PR-23:32  At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth 
like an adder.

PR-23:33  Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart 
shall utter

perverse things.

PR-23:34  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.

PR-23:35  They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not 
sick; they

have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I 
will seek it yet

again.



 

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