Proverbs 23 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

On Life and Conduct

Pro 23:1

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,

Consider diligently him that is before thee;

Pro 23:2

And put a knife to thy throat,

If thou be a man given to appetite.

Pro 23:3

Be not desirous of his dainties;

Seeing they are deceitful food.

Pro 23:4

Weary not thyself to be rich;

Cease from thine own wisdom.

Pro 23:5

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?

For riches certainly make themselves wings,

Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

Pro 23:6

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,

Neither desire thou his dainties:

Pro 23:7

For as he thinketh within himself, so is he:

Eat and drink, saith he to thee;

But his heart is not with thee.

Pro 23:8

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,

And lose thy sweet words.

Pro 23:9

Speak not in the hearing of a fool;

For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Pro 23:10

Remove not the ancient landmark;

And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Pro 23:11

For their Redeemer is strong;

He will plead their cause against thee.

Pro 23:12

Apply thy heart unto instruction,

And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Pro 23:13

Withhold not correction from the child;

For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

Pro 23:14

Thou shalt beat him with the rod,

And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Pro 23:15

My son, if thy heart be wise,

My heart will be glad, even mine:

Pro 23:16

Yea, my heart will rejoice,

When thy lips speak right things.

Pro 23:17

Let not thy heart envy sinners;

But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

Pro 23:18

For surely there is a reward;

And thy hope shall not be cut off.

Pro 23:19

Hear thou, my son, and be wise,

And guide thy heart in the way.

Pro 23:20

Be not among winebibbers,

Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

Pro 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;

And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

Pro 23:22

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,

And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Pro 23:23

Buy the truth, and sell it not;

Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Pro 23:24

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;

And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

Pro 23:25

Let thy father and thy mother be glad,

And let her that bare thee rejoice.

Pro 23:26

My son, give me thy heart;

And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

Pro 23:27

For a harlot is a deep ditch;

And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

Pro 23:28

Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber,

And increaseth the treacherous among men.

Pro 23:29

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?

Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause?

Who hath redness of eyes?

Pro 23:30

They that tarry long at the wine;

They that go to seek out mixed wine.

Pro 23:31

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,

When it sparkleth in the cup,

When it goeth down smoothly:

Pro 23:32

At the last it biteth like a serpent,

And stingeth like an adder.

Pro 23:33

Thine eyes shall behold strange things,

And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

Pro 23:34

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.

Pro 23:35

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.

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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Proverbs 23 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

On Life and Conduct

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