<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017049">Proverbs</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017716">Chapter 23</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1017686">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1017752">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Proverbs of Solomon</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017717">1</a>. WHEN thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017718">2</a>. And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017719">3</a>. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017720">4</a>. Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017721">5</a>. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?  for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017722">6</a>. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017723">7</a>. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017724">8</a>. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017725">9</a>. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017726">10</a>. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017727">11</a>. For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017728">12</a>. Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017729">13</a>. Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017730">14</a>. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017731">15</a>. My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017732">16</a>. Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017733">17</a>. Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017734">18</a>. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017735">19</a>. Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017736">20</a>. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017737">21</a>. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017738">22</a>. Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017739">23</a>. Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017740">24</a>. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017741">25</a>. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017742">26</a>. My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017743">27</a>. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017744">28</a>. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017745">29</a>. Who hath woe?  who hath sorrow?  who hath contentions?  who hath babbling?  who hath wounds without cause?  who hath redness of eyes?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017746">30</a>. They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017747">31</a>. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017748">32</a>. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017749">33</a>. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017750">34</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017751">35</a>. 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.</li>
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