{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro023.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro023.htm","text":"1\u00a0When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:\n \n2\u00a0And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.\n \n3\u00a0Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.\n \n4\u00a0Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.\n \n5\u00a0Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.\n \n6\u00a0Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:\n \n7\u00a0For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.\n \n8\u00a0The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.\n \n9\u00a0Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.\n \n10\u00a0Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:\n \n11\u00a0For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.\n \n12\u00a0Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.\n \n13\u00a0Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.\n \n14\u00a0Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.\n \n15\u00a0My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.\n \n16\u00a0Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.\n \n17\u00a0Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.\n \n18\u00a0For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.\n \n19\u00a0Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.\n \n20\u00a0Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:\n \n21\u00a0For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.\n \n22\u00a0Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.\n \n23\u00a0Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.\n \n24\u00a0The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.\n \n25\u00a0Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.\n \n26\u00a0My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.\n \n27\u00a0For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.\n \n28\u00a0She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.\n \n29\u00a0Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?\n \n30\u00a0They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.\n \n31\u00a0Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.\n \n32\u00a0At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.\n \n33\u00a0Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.\n \n34\u00a0Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.\n \n35\u00a0They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 23","type":"page"}