Proverbs 23 — WBMS
23Verse 1When thou sittest to eat with the prince, perceive thou diligently what things be set before thy face,Verse 2and set thou a coulter in thy throat. If nevertheless thou hast power on thy soul,Verse 3desire thou not of his meats, in whom is the bread of lying.Verse 4Do not thou travail to be made rich, but set thou measure to thy prudence.Verse 5Raise not thine eyes to riches, which thou mayest not have; for those [or they] shall make to them-selves pens or wings, as of an eagle, and they shall fly into heaven.Verse 6Eat thou not with an envious man, and desire thou not his meats;Verse 7for at the likeness of a false diviner, and of a conjecturer, that is, expounder of dreams, he guesseth that, that he knoweth not. He shall say to thee, Eat thou and drink; and his soul is not with thee.Verse 8Thou shalt spew out the meat, which thou hast eaten; and thou shalt lose thy fair words.Verse 9Speak thou not in the ears of unwise men; for they shall despise the teaching of thy speech.Verse 10Touch thou not the terms, or the boundary stones, of little children; and enter thou not into the field of fatherless and motherless children.Verse 11For the neighbour of them is strong, and he shall deem their cause against thee.Verse 12Thine heart enter to teaching, and thine ears to the words of knowing.Verse 13Do not thou withdraw chastising or discipline, from a child; for though thou smitest him with a rod, he shall not die.Verse 14Thou shalt smite him with a rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hell.Verse 15My son, if thy soul is wise, mine heart shall have joy with thee;Verse 16and my reins shall make full out joy, when thy lips speak rightful [or right] things.Verse 17Thine heart pursue [or follow] not sinners; but be thou in the dread of the Lord all day.Verse 18For thou shalt have hope at the last, and thine abiding shall not be done away.Verse 19My son, hear thou, and be wise, and address thy soul in the way.Verse 20Do not thou be in the feasts of drinkers, neither in the oft eatings of them, that bring together fleshes to eat.Verse 21For men giving attention to drinks, and giving morsels together, shall be wasted, and napping shall be clothed with clothes rent.Verse 22Hear thy father, that begat thee; and despise not thy mother, when she is eld.Verse 23Buy thou truth, and do not thou sell wisdom, and doctrine, and understanding.Verse 24The father of a just [or rightwise] man joyeth full out with joy; he that begat a wise man, shall be glad in him.Verse 25Thy father and thy mother have joy, and he that begat thee, make full out joy.Verse 26My son, give thine heart to me, and thine eyes keep my ways.Verse 27For a whore is a deep ditch, and an alien woman, is a strait pit.Verse 28She setteth ambush in the way, as a thief; and shall add despisers in men, that is, shall multiply despisers of God among men.Verse 29To whom is woe? to whose father is woe? to whom be chidings? to whom be ditches? to whom be wounds without cause? to whom is putting out of eyes?Verse 30Whether not to them, that dwell in wine, and study to drink [up] all of cups?Verse 31Behold thou not [the] wine, when it sparkleth, when the colour thereof shineth in a glass cup. It entereth sweetly,Verse 32but at the last it shall bite as an adder, and as a cockatrice it shall shed abroad venoms.Verse 33Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak wayward things.Verse 34And thou shalt be as a man sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a governor asleeped [or sleeping], when the steering, either the instrument of governance, is lost.Verse 35And thou shalt say, They beat me, but I had not sorrow; they drew me, and I feeled not; when shall I wake out, and I shall find wines again?