Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, thou shalt consider well, what is before thee;
2 And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
And shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art:
3 Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.
Do not crave his dainties, for, the same, are deceitful food.
4 Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
5 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.
Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.
6 Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.
Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties;
7 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.
For, just as he hath thought in his own mind, so, he is: Eat and drink! he may say to thee, but, his heart, is not with thee.
8 Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.
9 Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
In the ears of a dullard, do not speak, for he will despise the good sense of thy words.
10 Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
11 For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
12 Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.
Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest him with the rod, he shall not die:
Thou, with the rod, shalt smite him, and, his soul from hades, shalt thou deliver. (Sheol h7585)
15 My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
My son! if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
So shall my reins exult, when thy lips speak the things that are right.
17 Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually.
Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long;
18 For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
For surely there is a future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.
19 O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.
20 Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
Do not be among them who tipple with wine, —among them who are gluttons;
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.
For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!
22 Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.
Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
23 Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.
Greatly shall exult, the father of a righteous man, and, he that begetteth a wise son, shall rejoice in him:
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.
26 My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.
Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways;
27 For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
For, a deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown;
28 Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
29 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?
Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness of eyes?
30 Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.
They who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine.
31 Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.
Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth down smoothly.
32 In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
33 Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:
34 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.
So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea, —or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear:
35 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.
They smote me—I felt no pain, They struck me down—I noticed it not, —When shall I wake up? I will go on, I will seek it, again!
