Proverbs 23:1 KJV: 


Sure, here's the KJV translation of: 

Proverbs 23:1: 
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what 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: for they are deceitful meat.

Proverbs 23:4: 
Labour not 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; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 23:6: 
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Proverbs 23:7: 
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

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 ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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

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

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

Proverbs 23:13: 
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

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

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

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

Proverbs 23:17: 
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

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

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

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

Proverbs 23:21: 
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall 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; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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

Proverbs 23:25: 
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

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

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

Proverbs 23:28: 
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

Proverbs 23:29: 
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? 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 mixed wine.

Proverbs 23:31: 
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

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

Proverbs 23:33: 
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine 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 sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.