Proverbs 23 : 1 (ASV)
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;
Proverbs 23 : 2 (ASV)
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23 : 3 (ASV)
Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.
Proverbs 23 : 4 (ASV)
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs 23 : 5 (ASV)
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
Proverbs 23 : 6 (ASV)
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
Proverbs 23 : 7 (ASV)
For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs 23 : 8 (ASV)
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs 23 : 9 (ASV)
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 23 : 10 (ASV)
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs 23 : 11 (ASV)
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
Proverbs 23 : 12 (ASV)
Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23 : 13 (ASV)
Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 23 : 14 (ASV)
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 23 : 15 (ASV)
My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
Proverbs 23 : 16 (ASV)
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
Proverbs 23 : 17 (ASV)
Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:
Proverbs 23 : 18 (ASV)
For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.
Proverbs 23 : 19 (ASV)
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
Proverbs 23 : 20 (ASV)
Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23 : 21 (ASV)
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23 : 22 (ASV)
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23 : 23 (ASV)
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23 : 24 (ASV)
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
Proverbs 23 : 25 (ASV)
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
Proverbs 23 : 26 (ASV)
My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
Proverbs 23 : 27 (ASV)
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
Proverbs 23 : 28 (ASV)
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Proverbs 23 : 29 (ASV)
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23 : 30 (ASV)
They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.
Proverbs 23 : 31 (ASV)
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:
Proverbs 23 : 32 (ASV)
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
Proverbs 23 : 33 (ASV)
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23 : 34 (ASV)
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.
Proverbs 23 : 35 (ASV)
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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