Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,
2 and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.
4 Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
5 wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.
6 Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.
7 For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.
8 Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
9 Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
10 Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
11 for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
12 Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.
Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell. (Sheol h7585)
15 My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
16 and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
17 Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually.
18 for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
19 Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20 Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
24 The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:
The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.
25 let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
26 My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
28 She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
29 Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes?
30 — They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.
31 Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.
32 at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
34 and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:
And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste.
35 — “They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”
They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.
