Proverbs 23

About Proverbs Proverbs collects short sayings of practical wisdom for daily life, rooted in the fear of the LORD.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:SelectedProverbs 23:1Ask

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.SelectedProverbs 23:2Ask

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.SelectedProverbs 23:3Ask

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.SelectedProverbs 23:4Ask

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.SelectedProverbs 23:5Ask

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:SelectedProverbs 23:6Ask

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.SelectedProverbs 23:7Ask

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.SelectedProverbs 23:8Ask

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.SelectedProverbs 23:9Ask

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:SelectedProverbs 23:10Ask

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.SelectedProverbs 23:11Ask

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.SelectedProverbs 23:12Ask

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.SelectedProverbs 23:13Ask

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.SelectedProverbs 23:14Ask

My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.SelectedProverbs 23:15Ask

Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.SelectedProverbs 23:16Ask

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.SelectedProverbs 23:17Ask

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.SelectedProverbs 23:18Ask

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.SelectedProverbs 23:19Ask

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:SelectedProverbs 23:20Ask

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.SelectedProverbs 23:21Ask

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.SelectedProverbs 23:22Ask

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.SelectedProverbs 23:23Ask

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.SelectedProverbs 23:24Ask

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.SelectedProverbs 23:25Ask

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.SelectedProverbs 23:26Ask

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.SelectedProverbs 23:27Ask

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.SelectedProverbs 23:28Ask

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?SelectedProverbs 23:29Ask

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.SelectedProverbs 23:30Ask

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.SelectedProverbs 23:31Ask

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.SelectedProverbs 23:32Ask

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.SelectedProverbs 23:33Ask

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.SelectedProverbs 23:34Ask

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.SelectedProverbs 23:35Ask

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