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Proverbs 23:1 (show verse)
If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee.
Proverbs 23:2 (show verse)
And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.
Proverbs 23:3 (show verse)
Thou shalt not long for his dainties: and it is the bread of lies.
Proverbs 23:4 (show verse)
Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.
Proverbs 23:5 (show verse)
Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.
Proverbs 23:6 (show verse)
Thou shalt not eat the bread of an evil eye, and ye shall not long for its dainties:
Proverbs 23:7 (show verse)
Like him estimating evil in his soul, so is he: Eat and drink, he will say to thee; and his heart not with thee.
Proverbs 23:8 (show verse)
Thy morsel which thou didst eat thou shalt vomit forth and destroy thy pleasant words.
Proverbs 23:9 (show verse)
In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.
Proverbs 23:10 (show verse)
Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:
Proverbs 23:11 (show verse)
For he redeeming them, he is strong; he will contend their contention with thee.
Proverbs 23:12 (show verse)
Bring thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:13 (show verse)
Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.
Proverbs 23:14 (show verse)
Thou shalt strike him with the rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hades.
Proverbs 23:15 (show verse)
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs 23:16 (show verse)
And my reins shall exult in the speaking of thy lips uprightnesses.
Proverbs 23:17 (show verse)
Thy heart shall not envy against those sinning: but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
Proverbs 23:18 (show verse)
But there is a latter state, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
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Proverbs 23:19 (show verse)
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart right in the way.
Proverbs 23:20 (show verse)
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:
Proverbs 23:21 (show verse)
For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.
Proverbs 23:22 (show verse)
Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.
Proverbs 23:23 (show verse)
Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Proverbs 23:24 (show verse)
The father of the just one rejoicing, shall rejoice: he shall beget a wise one and shall rejoice in him.
Proverbs 23:25 (show verse)
Thy father shall rejoice, and thy mother, and she begetting thee shall exult.
Proverbs 23:26 (show verse)
My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way.
Proverbs 23:27 (show verse)
For a harlot is a deep ditch; and a strong woman a narrow well.
Proverbs 23:28 (show verse)
She also will lie in wait as for prey, and she will add those transgressing among men.
Proverbs 23:29 (show verse)
To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 (show verse)
To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 (show verse)
Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses.
Proverbs 23:32 (show verse)
Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper.
Proverbs 23:33 (show verse)
Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness.
Proverbs 23:34 (show verse)
And thou wert as he lying down in the heart of the sea, and as he lying down upon the head of the mast
Proverbs 23:35 (show verse)
They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.