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