Proverbs 23 — LSV
23Verse 1When you sit to eat with a ruler, || Diligently consider that which [is] before you,Verse 2And you have put a knife to your throat, || If you [are] a man of appetite.Verse 3Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.Verse 4Do not labor to make wealth, || Cease from your own understanding, || Do you cause your eyes to fly on it? Then it is not.Verse 5For wealth makes wings to itself, || It flies to the heavens as an eagle.Verse 6Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, || And have no desire to his delicacies,Verse 7For as he has thought in his soul, so he [is]. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, || And his heart [is] not with you.Verse 8You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, || And have marred your words that [are] sweet.Verse 9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, || For he treads on the wisdom of your words.Verse 10Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,Verse 11For their Redeemer [is] strong, || He pleads their cause with you.Verse 12Bring your heart to instruction, || And your ear to sayings of knowledge.Verse 13Do not withhold discipline from a youth, || When you strike him with a rod he does not die.Verse 14You strike him with a rod, || And you deliver his soul from Sheol.Verse 15My son, if your heart has been wise, || My heart rejoices, even mine,Verse 16And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.Verse 17Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, || But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.Verse 18For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off.Verse 19Hear, my son, and be wise, || And make your heart blessed in the way,Verse 20Do not become drunk with wine, || Among gluttonous ones of flesh,Verse 21For the drunkard and glutton become poor, || And drowsiness clothes with rags.Verse 22Listen to your father, who begot you, || And do not despise your mother when she has become old.Verse 23Buy truth, and do not sell, || Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,Verse 24The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, || The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.Verse 25Your father and your mother rejoice, || Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.Verse 26Give, my son, your heart to me, || And let your eyes watch my ways.Verse 27For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, || And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.Verse 28She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, || And she increases the treacherous among men.Verse 29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?Verse 30Those lingering by the wine, || Those going in to search out mixed wine.Verse 31Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.Verse 32Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper.Verse 33Your eyes see strange women, || And your heart speaks perverse things.Verse 34And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, || And as one lying down on the top of a mast.Verse 35“They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”