Bible, King James Version
Proverbs
Prov.23
[1] When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider
diligently what is before thee:
[2] And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given
to appetite.
[3] Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are
deceitful meat.
[4] Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own
wisdom.
[5] Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for
riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle
toward heaven.
[6] Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
neither desire thou his dainty meats:
[7] For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and
drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
[8] The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
and lose thy sweet words.
[9] Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise
the wisdom of thy words.
[10] Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the
fields of the fatherless:
[11] For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their
cause with thee.
[12] Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to
the words of knowledge.
[13] Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou
beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
[14] Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver
his soul from hell.
[15] My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall
rejoice, even mine.
[16] Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak
right things.
[17] Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the
fear of the LORD all the day long.
[18] For surely there is an end; and thine expectation
shall not be cut off.
[19] Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart
in the way.
[20] Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of
flesh:
[21] For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to
poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
[22] Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise
not thy mother when she is old.
[23] Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and
instruction, and understanding.
[24] The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice:
and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
[25] Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that
bare thee shall rejoice.
[26] My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes
observe my ways.
[27] For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a
narrow pit.
[28] She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth
the transgressors among men.
[29] Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?
who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath
redness of eyes?
[30] They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to
seek mixed wine.
[31] Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it
giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
[32] At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth
like an adder.
[33] Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine
heart shall utter perverse things.
[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.
[35] They have stricken me, shalt thou 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.
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