Proverbs #23

Proverbs Book #23


PROVERBS 23

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully
what is before you;

2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given
to appetite.

3 Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceptive
food.

4 Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own
understanding, cease!

5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For
riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away
like an eagle toward heaven.

6 Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his
delicacies;

7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and
drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And
waste your pleasant words.

9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will
despise the wisdom of your words.

10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the
fields of the fatherless;

11 For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their
cause against you.

12 Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to
words of knowledge.

13 Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you
beat him with a rod, he will not die.

14 You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul
from hell.

15 My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice -
indeed, I myself;

16 Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips
speak right things.

17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous
for the fear of the Lord all the day;

18 For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will
not be cut off.

19 Hear, my son, and be wise; And guide your heart in
the way.

20 Do not mix with winebibbers, Or with gluttonous
eaters of meat;

21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

22 Listen to your father who begot you, And do not
despise your mother when she is old.

23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and
instruction and understanding.

24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.

25 Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her
who bore you rejoice.

26 My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe
my ways.

27 For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a
narrow well.

28 She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases
the unfaithful among men.

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who
has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has
redness of eyes?

30 Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in
search of mixed wine.

31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it
sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly;

32 At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like
a viper.

33 Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart
will utter perverse things.

34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst
of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast,
saying:

35 "They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have
beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake,
that I may seek another drink?"

God Bless you -
Chip Tarver
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