Proverbs 23

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:AKJV — Proverbs 23:1

2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.AKJV — Proverbs 23:2

3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.AKJV — Proverbs 23:3

4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.AKJV — Proverbs 23:4

5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.AKJV — Proverbs 23:5

6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:AKJV — Proverbs 23:6

7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you.AKJV — Proverbs 23:7

8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.AKJV — Proverbs 23:8

9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.AKJV — Proverbs 23:9

10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:AKJV — Proverbs 23:10

11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.AKJV — Proverbs 23:11

12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.AKJV — Proverbs 23:12

13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.AKJV — Proverbs 23:13

14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.AKJV — Proverbs 23:14

15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.AKJV — Proverbs 23:15

16 Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.AKJV — Proverbs 23:16

17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.AKJV — Proverbs 23:17

18 For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.AKJV — Proverbs 23:18

19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.AKJV — Proverbs 23:19

20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:AKJV — Proverbs 23:20

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.AKJV — Proverbs 23:21

22 Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.AKJV — Proverbs 23:22

23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.AKJV — Proverbs 23:23

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.AKJV — Proverbs 23:24

25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.AKJV — Proverbs 23:25

26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.AKJV — Proverbs 23:26

27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.AKJV — Proverbs 23:27

28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.AKJV — Proverbs 23:28

29 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?AKJV — Proverbs 23:29

30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.AKJV — Proverbs 23:30

31 Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.AKJV — Proverbs 23:31

32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.AKJV — Proverbs 23:32

33 Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.AKJV — Proverbs 23:33

34 Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast.AKJV — Proverbs 23:34

35 They have stricken me, shall you 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.AKJV — Proverbs 23:35