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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Proverbs 23 Lamsa Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/proverbs/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/proverbs/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Lamsa</a> > Proverbs 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/22.htm" title="Proverbs 22">◄</a> Proverbs 23 <a href="../proverbs/24.htm" title="Proverbs 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>WHEN you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is set before you,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>That you may not put poison in your mouth. And if you are a man given to excessive appetite,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Be not desirous of his food; for his bread is bread of deceit.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Do not quarrel with a rich man; but keep away from him wisely.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>For if you should fix your eye on him, you cannot see him; for he makes for himself wings like an eagle and flies away toward the sky.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>Do not eat with a hypocrite, neither desire his food;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>For he is like him that swallows pitch; in like manner you will eat and drink with him, but his heart is not with you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will lose your sweet words.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Do not speak in the presence of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of your words.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Do not remove the old landmark; nor enter into the field of the fatherless;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>For their saviour is mighty; he will plead their cause with you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Do not withhold chastisement from a child; for if you beat him, he will not die.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>For when you beat him with the rod, you will deliver his soul from Sheol.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>My son, if your heart be wise, my heart also will rejoice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Yea, my heart shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Let not your heart envy sinners; but revere the LORD all the day long.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>For surely you will have a future; and your hope shall not be cut off.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>Hear, my son, and be wise, and fasten my counsel in your heart.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Be not drunk with wine; and be not a gluttonous eater of meat:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>For the drunkard and the gluttonous shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Buy the truth, and do not sell wisdom; also buy understanding and instruction.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice; and he who begets a wise child shall be glad.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>Your father and your mother shall rejoice in you; and the one who bore you shall be happy.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>My son. give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>For a harlot is a deep pit; and a strange woman is a narrow well.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>She destroys men suddenly, and increases iniquity among men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has contentions? Who has hardships? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>Those who tarry long over the wine; and who search for a place of drinking. Be not drunken with wine, but converse with righteous men; walk and talk with them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>Do not look on the wine when it is red in the cup, but meditate on righteousness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>For at the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>When your eyes behold a strange woman, then your heart shall utter perverse things.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>Yea, you shall be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as a sailor in a tempest.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/23-35.htm#aramaic"><b>35</b></a></span>They have beaten me, you shall say, but I did not suffer, they have mocked me, but I did not know it; when I shall awake sober, I will go and seek it yet again.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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