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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Proverbs 23 Douay-Rheims 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><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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</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 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">Douay-Rheims Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Consider Diligently what is Before You</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/proverbs/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../proverbs/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Proverbs 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Proverbs 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../proverbs/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Proverbs 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Proverbs 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>