Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which [is] before thee,
When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,
2 And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou [art] a man of appetite.
And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
3 Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it [is] lying food.
Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.
4 Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
5 For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to 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 not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,
Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.
7 For as he hath thought in his soul, so [is] he, 'Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And 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 thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that [are] sweet.
Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
9 In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on 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 a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
11 For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
12 Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
13 Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
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 hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
16 And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
17 Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But — 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, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not 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 make happy in the way thy heart,
O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20 Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
21 For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.
22 Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.
23 Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
24 The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.
The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.
25 Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
26 Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.
My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.
27 For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a strait pit.
For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
28 She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath 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 Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.
31 See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
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 latter end — as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
33 Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
34 And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on 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 smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake — I 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.
