Proverbs 23 : 1 (ESV)
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Proverbs 23 : 2 (ESV)
and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
Proverbs 23 : 3 (ESV)
Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
Proverbs 23 : 4 (ESV)
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
Proverbs 23 : 5 (ESV)
When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23 : 6 (ESV)
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,
Proverbs 23 : 7 (ESV)
for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23 : 8 (ESV)
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
Proverbs 23 : 9 (ESV)
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
Proverbs 23 : 10 (ESV)
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
Proverbs 23 : 11 (ESV)
for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
Proverbs 23 : 12 (ESV)
Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23 : 13 (ESV)
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 23 : 14 (ESV)
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 23 : 15 (ESV)
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
Proverbs 23 : 16 (ESV)
My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
Proverbs 23 : 17 (ESV)
Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
Proverbs 23 : 18 (ESV)
Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 23 : 19 (ESV)
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
Proverbs 23 : 20 (ESV)
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
Proverbs 23 : 21 (ESV)
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Proverbs 23 : 22 (ESV)
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23 : 23 (ESV)
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23 : 24 (ESV)
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
Proverbs 23 : 25 (ESV)
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 23 : 26 (ESV)
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs 23 : 27 (ESV)
For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
Proverbs 23 : 28 (ESV)
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.
Proverbs 23 : 29 (ESV)
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23 : 30 (ESV)
Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine.
Proverbs 23 : 31 (ESV)
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Proverbs 23 : 32 (ESV)
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
Proverbs 23 : 33 (ESV)
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23 : 34 (ESV)
You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
Proverbs 23 : 35 (ESV)
"They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink."
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