Thematic Bible
Proverbs 23:1 (show verse)
When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what [is] before you,
Proverbs 23:2 (show verse)
and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a {big appetite}.
Proverbs 23:3 (show verse)
Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception.
Proverbs 23:4 (show verse)
Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist
Proverbs 23:5 (show verse)
Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.
Proverbs 23:6 (show verse)
Do not eat the bread of {the stingy}, and do not desire his delicacies.
Proverbs 23:7 (show verse)
For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.
Proverbs 23:8 (show verse)
Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words.
Proverbs 23:9 (show verse)
In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23:10 (show verse)
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
Proverbs 23:11 (show verse)
For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.
Proverbs 23:12 (show verse)
Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:13 (show verse)
Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 23:14 (show verse)
As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol.
Proverbs 23:15 (show verse)
My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad--even me!
Proverbs 23:16 (show verse)
And my {insides} will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.
Proverbs 23:17 (show verse)
May your heart not envy the sinners, but [live] in fear of Yahweh {all day}.
Proverbs 23:18 (show verse)
{Surely} there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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Proverbs 23:19 (show verse)
You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road
Proverbs 23:20 (show verse)
Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of {their meat}.
Proverbs 23:21 (show verse)
For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and [with] rags, drowsiness will clothe them
Proverbs 23:22 (show verse)
Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:23 (show verse)
Buy truth and do not sell [it], wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Proverbs 23:24 (show verse)
The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.
Proverbs 23:25 (show verse)
May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 23:26 (show verse)
My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.
Proverbs 23:27 (show verse)
For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.
Proverbs 23:28 (show verse)
She [is] also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
Proverbs 23:29 (show verse)
To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 (show verse)
To those who linger over wine, to those who come to try mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 (show verse)
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it {sparkles} on the cup, going down smoothly.
Proverbs 23:32 (show verse)
{In the end}, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.
Proverbs 23:33 (show verse)
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.
Proverbs 23:34 (show verse)
And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
Proverbs 23:35 (show verse)
"They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know [it]. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again."