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Proverbs 23 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
Consider diligently him that is before thee;

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And put a knife to thy throat,
If thou be a man given to appetite.

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Be not desirous of his dainties;
Seeing they are deceitful food.

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Weary not thyself to be rich;
Cease from thine own wisdom.

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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings,
Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
Neither desire thou his dainties:

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For as he thinketh within himself, so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee;
But his heart is not with thee.

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The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
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Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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Remove not the ancient landmark;
And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their cause against thee.

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Apply thy heart unto instruction,
And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

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Withhold not correction from the child;
For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

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Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

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My son, if thy heart be wise,
My heart will be glad, even mine:

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Yea, my heart will rejoice,
When thy lips speak right things.

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Let not thy heart envy sinners;
But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

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For surely there is a reward;
And thy hope shall not be cut off.

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Hear thou, my son, and be wise,
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Be not among winebibbers,
Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;
And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,
And despise not thy mother when she is old.

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Buy the truth, and sell it not;
Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

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Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
And let her that bare thee rejoice.

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My son, give me thy heart;
And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

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For a harlot is a deep ditch;
And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber,
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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?
Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause?
Who hath redness of eyes?

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They that tarry long at the wine;
They that go to seek out mixed wine.

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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,
When it sparkleth in the cup,
When it goeth down smoothly:

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At the last it biteth like a serpent,
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Thine eyes shall behold strange things,
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Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,
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They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt;
They have beaten me, and I felt it not:
When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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