Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, thou shalt consider well, what is before thee;
When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,
2 And shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art:
And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
3 Do not crave his dainties, for, the same, are deceitful food.
Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.
4 Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
5 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.
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 Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties;
Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.
7 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.
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 As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.
Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
9 In the ears of a dullard, do not speak, for he will despise the good sense of thy words.
Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
10 Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
11 For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
12 Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.
Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest 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 So shall my reins exult, when thy lips speak the things that are right.
And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
17 Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long;
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 future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.
For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
19 Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart.
O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20 Do not be among them who tipple with wine, —among them who are gluttons;
Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
21 For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!
For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.
22 Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.
23 Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.
Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
24 Greatly shall exult, the father of a righteous man, and, he that begetteth a wise son, shall rejoice in him:
The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.
25 Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
26 Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways;
My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.
27 For, a deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown;
For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
28 Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
29 Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness 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 who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine.
Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.
31 Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth 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 Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
33 Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:
Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
34 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:
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 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!
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.
