Thematic Bible
Proverbs 23:1 (show verse)
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you;
Proverbs 23:2 (show verse)
and put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23:3 (show verse)
Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceitful food.
Proverbs 23:4 (show verse)
Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding.
Proverbs 23:5 (show verse)
Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.
Proverbs 23:6 (show verse)
Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods;
Proverbs 23:7 (show verse)
for as he thinks in his heart, so is he; Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8 (show verse)
Your bit which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and spoil your pleasant words.
Proverbs 23:9 (show verse)
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23:10 (show verse)
Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;
Proverbs 23:11 (show verse)
for their Redeemer is mighty; He shall plead their cause with you.
Proverbs 23:12 (show verse)
Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:13 (show verse)
Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 23:14 (show verse)
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs 23:15 (show verse)
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs 23:16 (show verse)
Yea, my heart shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.
Proverbs 23:17 (show verse)
Do not let your heart envy sinners; but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day long.
Proverbs 23:18 (show verse)
For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope shall not be cut off.
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Proverbs 23:19 (show verse)
My son, hear and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Proverbs 23:20 (show verse)
Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves,
Proverbs 23:21 (show verse)
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23:22 (show verse)
Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:23 (show verse)
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23:24 (show verse)
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.
Proverbs 23:25 (show verse)
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.
Proverbs 23:26 (show verse)
My son, give Me your heart, and let your eyes watch My ways.
Proverbs 23:27 (show verse)
For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Proverbs 23:28 (show verse)
She also lies in wait as for prey, and increases the treacherous among men.
Proverbs 23:29 (show verse)
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fighting? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 (show verse)
Those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 (show verse)
Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly
Proverbs 23:32 (show verse)
At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.
Proverbs 23:33 (show verse)
Your eyes shall look upon strange women and your heart shall speak perverse things.
Proverbs 23:34 (show verse)
Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast,
Proverbs 23:35 (show verse)
saying, They struck me; I was not sick; they beat me, but I did not know it. When I awaken, I will add more. I will seek it again.