Proverbs 23:1 ASV: 


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Proverbs 23:1: 
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;

Proverbs 23:2: 
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

Proverbs 23:3: 
Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

Proverbs 23:4: 
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

Proverbs 23:5: 
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: 
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

Proverbs 23:7: 
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: 
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

Proverbs 23:9: 
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Proverbs 23:10: 
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Proverbs 23:11: 
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.

Proverbs 23:12: 
Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:13: 
Withhold not correction from the child; `For' if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 23:14: 
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 23:15: 
My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

Proverbs 23:16: 
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

Proverbs 23:17: 
Let not thy heart envy sinners; But `be thou' in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

Proverbs 23:18: 
For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.

Proverbs 23:19: 
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.

Proverbs 23:20: 
Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

Proverbs 23:21: 
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe `a man' with rags.

Proverbs 23:22: 
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Proverbs 23:23: 
Buy the truth, and sell it not; `Yea', wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 23:24: 
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

Proverbs 23:25: 
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

Proverbs 23:26: 
My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

Proverbs 23:27: 
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 23:28: 
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

Proverbs 23:29: 
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: 
They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.

Proverbs 23:31: 
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:

Proverbs 23:32: 
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

Proverbs 23:33: 
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

Proverbs 23:34: 
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.

Proverbs 23:35: 
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.