Proverbs 23 — King James Version

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what {is} before thee:● And put a knife to thy throat, if thou {be} a man given to appetite.● Be not desirous of his dainties: for they {are} deceitful meat.● Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.● Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for {riches} certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. {set...: Heb. cause thine eyes to fly upon}● Eat thou not the bread of {him that hath} an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:● For as he thinketh in his heart, 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 ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.● Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}● For their redeemer {is} mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.● Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.● Withhold not correction from the child: for {if} thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.● Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.● My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. {even...: or, even I will rejoice}● Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.● Let not thine heart envy sinners: but {be thou} in the fear of the LORD all the day long.● For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. {end: or, reward}● Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.● Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: {of flesh: Heb. of their flesh}● For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall 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; {also} wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.● The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise {child} shall have joy of him.● Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.● My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.● For a whore {is} a deep ditch; and a strange woman {is} a narrow pit.● She also lieth in wait as {for} a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. {as for...: or, as a robber}● Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?● They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.● Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, {when} it moveth itself aright.● At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. {an...: or, a cockatrice}● Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine 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. {the midst...: Heb. the heart of the sea}● 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. {I felt...: Heb. I knew it not}●