Proverbs 23 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

On Life and Conduct

Pro 23:1

Pro 23:1When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
Consider carefully [fn]what is before you,

Pro 23:2

Pro 23:2And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.

Pro 23:3

Pro 23:3Do not desire his delicacies,
For it is deceptive food.

Pro 23:4

Pro 23:4Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
Cease from your [fn]consideration of it.

Pro 23:5

Pro 23:5 [fn]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

Pro 23:6

Pro 23:6Do not eat the bread of [fn]a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;

Pro 23:7

Pro 23:7For as he [fn]thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But his heart is not with you.

Pro 23:8

Pro 23:8You will vomit up [fn]the morsel you have eaten,
And waste your [fn]compliments.

Pro 23:9

Pro 23:9Do not speak in the [fn]hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Pro 23:10

Pro 23:10Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Pro 23:11

Pro 23:11For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their case against you.

Pro 23:12

Pro 23:12Apply your heart to discipline
And your ears to words of knowledge.

Pro 23:13

Pro 23:13Do not hold back discipline from the child,
Although you [fn]strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Pro 23:14

Pro 23:14You shall [fn]strike him with the rod
And rescue his soul from Sheol.

Pro 23:15

Pro 23:15My son, if your heart is wise,
My own heart also will be glad;

Pro 23:16

Pro 23:16And my [fn]inmost being will rejoice
When your lips speak what is right.

Pro 23:17

Pro 23:17Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But live in the [fn]fear of the LORD [fn]always.

Pro 23:18

Pro 23:18Surely there is a [fn]future,
And your hope will not be cut off.

Pro 23:19

Pro 23:19Listen, my son, and be wise,
And direct your heart in the way.

Pro 23:20

Pro 23:20Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

Pro 23:21

Pro 23:21For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

Pro 23:22

Pro 23:22Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Pro 23:23

Pro 23:23Buy truth, and do not sell it,
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Pro 23:24

Pro 23:24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.

Pro 23:25

Pro 23:25Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

Pro 23:26

Pro 23:26Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes [fn]delight in my ways.

Pro 23:27

Pro 23:27For a harlot is a deep pit
And an [fn]adulterous woman is a narrow well.

Pro 23:28

Pro 23:28Surely she lurks as a robber,
And increases the [fn]faithless among men.

Pro 23:29

Pro 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?

Pro 23:30

Pro 23:30Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to [fn]taste mixed wine.

Pro 23:31

Pro 23:31Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it [fn]sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;

Pro 23:32

Pro 23:32At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.

Pro 23:33

Pro 23:33Your eyes will see strange things
And your [fn]mind will utter perverse things.

Pro 23:34

Pro 23:34And you will be like one who lies down in the [fn]middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a [fn]mast.

Pro 23:35

Pro 23:35“They struck me, but I did not become [fn]ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek [fn]another drink.”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(23:1)

Or, who

(23:4)

Or, understanding

(23:5)

Literally: Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?

(23:6)

Literally: an evil eye

(23:7)

Literally: reckons in his soul

(23:8)

Literally: your

(23:8)

Literally: pleasant words

Literally: ears

Literally: smite

Literally: smite

Literally: kidneys

Or, reverence

Literally: all the day

(23:18)

Literally: latter end

(23:26)

Another reading is observe

(23:27)

Literally: strange

(23:28)

Literally: treacherous

(23:30)

Or, search out

(23:31)

Literally: gives its eye

Literally: heart

Literally: heart

Or, lookout

I.e. from the effect of wounds

(23:35)

Literally: it yet again

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