#### Proverbs 23

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31} {32} {33} {34} {35}

^ Pr 23.1: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee:
^ Pr 23.2: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.
^ Pr 23.3: Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.
^ Pr 23.4: Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
^ Pr 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.
^ Pr 23.6: Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
^ Pr 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.
^ Pr 23.8: The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
^ Pr 23.9: Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
^ Pr 23.10: Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
^ Pr 23.11: For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
^ Pr 23.12: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
^ Pr 23.13: Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
^ Pr 23.14: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
^ Pr 23.15: My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
^ Pr 23.16: Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
^ Pr 23.17: Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
^ Pr 23.18: For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
^ Pr 23.19: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
^ Pr 23.20: Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
^ Pr 23.21: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.
^ Pr 23.22: Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
^ Pr 23.23: Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
^ Pr 23.24: The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.
^ Pr 23.25: Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
^ Pr 23.26: My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
^ Pr 23.27: For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
^ Pr 23.28: She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
^ Pr 23.29: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
^ Pr 23.30: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
^ Pr 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.
^ Pr 23.32: At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
^ Pr 23.33: Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
^ Pr 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.
^ Pr 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.