Thematic Bible
Proverbs 23:1 (show verse)
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you.
Proverbs 23:2 (show verse)
Put a knife to your throat, if you are a man with a strong desire (lust) (passion).
Proverbs 23:3 (show verse)
Do not crave his delicacies for it is deceptive food.
Proverbs 23:4 (show verse)
Do not exhaust yourself to get rich. Be wise and show restraint.
Proverbs 23:5 (show verse)
Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.
Proverbs 23:6 (show verse)
Do not eat the bread of a selfish man nor desire his delicacies.
Proverbs 23:7 (show verse)
Just as he thinks in his heart: Eat and drink, he says to you. But his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8 (show verse)
You vomit the morsel you eat and waste your complements.
Proverbs 23:9 (show verse)
Do not speak to a fool for he will despise your wise words.
Proverbs 23:10 (show verse)
Do not remove the old landmark (boundry). And do not enter the field of the fatherless.
Proverbs 23:11 (show verse)
Their redeemer is mighty. He will plead their cause with you.
Proverbs 23:12 (show verse)
Apply your heart to instruction (discipline), and your ears to words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:13 (show verse)
Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die.
Proverbs 23:14 (show verse)
You will spank him with a stick and deliver him from death.
Proverbs 23:15 (show verse)
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will also rejoice!
Proverbs 23:16 (show verse)
Yes, my inmost being rejoices when you speak right things.
Proverbs 23:17 (show verse)
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but reverence Jehovah all day long.
Proverbs 23:18 (show verse)
Surely there is a future hope and you will not be disappointed.
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Proverbs 23:19 (show verse)
Listen and be wise, my son, and direct your heart in the way.
Proverbs 23:20 (show verse)
Do not associate with drunkards or gluttons.
Proverbs 23:21 (show verse)
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23:22 (show verse)
Listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:23 (show verse)
Buy the truth and do not sell it. Also buy wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23:24 (show verse)
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice and he who gives birth to a wise child will receive joy from him.
Proverbs 23:25 (show verse)
Your father and your mother will be glad. She who bore you will rejoice.
Proverbs 23:26 (show verse)
My son, give me your heart and let your eyes keep my ways.
Proverbs 23:27 (show verse)
A prostitute is a deep pit. An adulterous wife is a well of tribulation.
Proverbs 23:28 (show verse)
She also lies in wait as for a victim, and increases the transgressors among men.
Proverbs 23:29 (show verse)
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 (show verse)
Those who stay long at the wine. They seek mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 (show verse)
Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Proverbs 23:32 (show verse)
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
Proverbs 23:33 (show verse)
Your eyes will see strange things and your heart (and mind) will utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23:34 (show verse)
You will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea; like one who lies on top of a mast.
Proverbs 23:35 (show verse)
They struck me but I did not become sick. They beat me and I did not feel it. When will I awake? I will seek drink yet again.