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Themes in Proverbs 23
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Themes in Proverbs 23

Proverbs 23:1

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

Proverbs 23:2

And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.

Proverbs 23:3

Do not desire his delicacies,
For it is deceptive food.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
Cease from your consideration of it.

Proverbs 23:5

When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;

Proverbs 23:7

For as he thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But his heart is not with you.

Proverbs 23:8

You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten,
And waste your compliments.

Proverbs 23:9

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

Proverbs 23:10

Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Proverbs 23:11

For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their case against you.

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your heart to discipline
And your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:13

Do not hold back discipline from the child,
Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 23:14

You shall strike him with the rod
And rescue his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 23:15

My son, if your heart is wise,
My own heart also will be glad;

Proverbs 23:16

And my inmost being will rejoice
When your lips speak what is right.

Proverbs 23:17

Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But live in the fear of the Lord always.

Proverbs 23:18

Surely there is a future,
And your hope will not be cut off.
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Proverbs 23:19

Listen, my son, and be wise,
And direct your heart in the way.

Proverbs 23:20

Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

Proverbs 23:21

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it,
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Proverbs 23:24

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.

Proverbs 23:25

Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

Proverbs 23:26

Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes delight in my ways.

Proverbs 23:27

For a harlot is a deep pit
And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

Proverbs 23:28

Surely she lurks as a robber,
And increases the faithless among men.

Proverbs 23:29

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

Proverbs 23:30

Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.

Proverbs 23:31

Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;

Proverbs 23:32

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

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things.

Proverbs 23:34

And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.

Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, but I did not become ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink.”
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