Proverbs 23 — DBY
23Verse 1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;Verse 2and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.Verse 3Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.Verse 4Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:Verse 5wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.Verse 6Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.Verse 7For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.Verse 8Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.Verse 9Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.Verse 10Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:Verse 11for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.Verse 12Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.Verse 13Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:Verse 14thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.Verse 15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;Verse 16and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.Verse 17Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;Verse 18for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.Verse 19Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.Verse 20Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.Verse 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.Verse 22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.Verse 23Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.Verse 24The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:Verse 25let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.Verse 26My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.Verse 27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.Verse 28She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.Verse 29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?Verse 30— They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.Verse 31Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:Verse 32at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.Verse 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;Verse 34and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:Verse 35— “They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”