UKJV - Proverbs - 23

23:1  When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

23:2  And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.

23:3  Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.

23:4  Labour not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

23:5  Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

23:6  Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:

23:7  For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.

23:8  The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

23:9  Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

23:10  Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

23:11  For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.

23:12  Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

23:13  Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

23:14  You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.

23:15  My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

23:16  Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

23:17  Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

23:18  For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.

23:19  Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

23:20  Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

23:21  For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

23:22  Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

23:23  Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

23:24  The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.

23:25  Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.

23:26  My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

23:27  For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

23:28  She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.

23:29  Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?

23:30  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

23:31  Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.

23:32  At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

23:33  your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

23:34  Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.

23:35  They have stricken me, shall you 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.