Proverbs 23 — American Standard Version

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;● And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.● Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.● Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.● Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For `riches' certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.● Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:● For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.● The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.● Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.● Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:● For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.● Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.● Withhold not correction from the child; `For' if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.● Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.● My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:● Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.● Let not thy heart envy sinners; But `be thou' in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:● For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.● Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.● Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:● For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe `a man' with rags.● Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.● Buy the truth, and sell it not; `Yea', wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.● The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.● Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.● My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.● For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.● Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.● Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?● They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.● Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:● At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.● Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.● 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.● 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.●