Proverbs 23
1 When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
2 And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
4 Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
Labour not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
5 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.
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.
Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
7 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.
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
8 Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
9 Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
12 Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. (Sheol h7585)
15 My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually.
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
18 For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
19 O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
20 Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22 Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.
Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
23 Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
26 My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
29 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?
Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
30 Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.
Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
32 In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
34 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.
Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
35 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.
They have stricken me, shall you 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.
