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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,</div><div class="po2">Consider well him that is before thee;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And put a knife to thy throat,</div><div class="po2">If thou be a man given to appetite.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Be not desirous of his dainties;</div><div class="po2">Seeing they are deceitful food.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Weary not thyself to be rich;</div><div class="po2">Cease from thine own wisdom.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone;</div><div class="po2">For riches certainly make themselves wings,</div><div class="po2">Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,</div><div class="po2">Neither desire thou his dainties;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For as one that hath reckoned within himself, so is he:</div><div class="po2">‘Eat and drink’, saith he to thee;</div><div class="po2">But his heart is not with thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,</div><div class="po2">And lose thy sweet words.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Speak not in the ears of a fool;</div><div class="po2">For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Remove not the ancient landmark;</div><div class="po2">And enter not into the fields of the fatherless;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For their Redeemer is strong;</div><div class="po2">He will plead their cause with thee.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Apply thy heart unto instruction,</div><div class="po2">And thine ears to the words of knowledge.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Withhold not correction from the child;</div><div class="po2">For though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou beatest him with the rod,</div><div class="po2">And wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My son, if thy heart be wise,</div><div class="po2">My heart will be glad, even mine;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Yea, my reins will rejoice,</div><div class="po2">When thy lips speak right things.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let not thy heart envy sinners,</div><div class="po2">But be in the fear of the LORD all the day;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For surely there is a future;</div><div class="po2">And thy hope shall not be cut off.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hear thou, my son, and be wise,</div><div class="po2">And guide thy heart in the way.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Be not among winebibbers;</div><div class="po2">Among gluttonous eaters of flesh;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;</div><div class="po2">And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hearken unto thy father that begot thee,</div><div class="po2">And despise not thy mother when she is old.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Buy the truth, and sell it not;</div><div class="po2">Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;</div><div class="po2">And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let thy father and thy mother be glad,</div><div class="po2">And let her that bore thee rejoice.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>My son, give me thy heart,</div><div class="po2">And let thine eyes observe my ways.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For a harlot is a deep ditch;</div><div class="po2">And an alien woman is a narrow pit.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>She also lieth in wait as a robber,</div><div class="po2">And increaseth the faithless among men.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Who crieth: ‘Woe’? who: ‘Alas’?</div><div class="po2">Who hath contentions? who hath raving?</div><div class="po2">Who hath wounds without cause?</div><div class="po2">Who hath redness of eyes?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They that tarry long at the wine;</div><div class="po2">They that go to try mixed wine.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,</div><div class="po2">When it giveth its colour in the cup,</div><div class="po2">When it glideth down smoothly;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>At the last it biteth like a serpent,</div><div class="po2">And stingeth like a basilisk.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thine eyes shall behold strange things,</div><div class="po2">And thy heart shall utter confused things.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,</div><div class="po2">Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>‘They have struck me, and I felt it not,</div><div class="po2">They have beaten me, and I knew it not;</div><div class="po2">When shall I awake? 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