English Bible
Proverbs 23
Big screen- 1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
- 2And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
- 3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
- 4Labour not to be rich: cease from yours own wisdom.
- 5Will you set yours eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- 6Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
- 7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
- 8The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
- 9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- 10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- 11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
- 12Apply yours heart unto instruction, and yours ears to the words of knowledge.
- 13Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
- 14You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
- 15My son, if yours heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
- 16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
- 17Let not yours heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
- 18For surely there is an end; and yours expectation shall not be cut off.
- 19Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide yours heart in the way.
- 20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
- 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- 22Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
- 23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
- 24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
- 25Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
- 26My son, give me yours heart, and let yours eyes observe my ways.
- 27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- 28She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
- 29Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
- 30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
- 31Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
- 32At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
- 33Yours eyes shall behold strange women, and yours heart shall utter perverse things.
- 34Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
- 35They have stricken me, shall you 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.