engKJVCPB: Proverbs 23

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[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 amongst winebibbers;

Amongst 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 mixt 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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