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