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| 23:1 |
 hen thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee. |
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| 23:2 |
And put a knife to thy throate, if thou be a man giuen to appetite. |
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| 23:3 |
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitfull meate. |
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| 23:4 |
Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome. |
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| 23:5 |
Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselues wings, they fly away as an Eagle toward heauen. |
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| 23:6 |
Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euill eye, neither desire thou his dainty meates. |
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| 23:7 |
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eate, and drinke, sayth he to thee, but his heart is not with thee. |
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| 23:8 |
The morsell which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomite vp, and loose thy sweete words. |
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| 23:9 |
Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisedome of thy words. |
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| 23:10 |
Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse. |
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| 23:11 |
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. |
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| 23:12 |
Apply thine heart vnto instruction, and thine eares to the words of knowledge. |
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| 23:13 |
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. |
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| 23:14 |
Thou shalt beate him with the rod, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell. |
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| 23:15 |
My sonne, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall reioyce, euen mine. |
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| 23:16 |
Yea my reines shall reioyce, when thy lippes speake right things. |
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| 23:17 |
Let not thine heart enuy sinners, but be thou in the feare of the Lord all the day long. |
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| 23:18 |
For surely there is an end, and thine expectation shall not be cut off. |
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| 23:19 |
Heare thou, my sonne, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. |
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| 23:20 |
Be not amongst wine-bibbers; amongst riotous eaters of flesh. |
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| 23:21 |
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges. |
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| 23:22 |
Hearken vnto thy father that begate thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
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| 23:23 |
Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding. |
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| 23:24 |
The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wise child, shall haue ioy of him. |
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| 23:25 |
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce. |
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| 23:26 |
My sonne, giue me thine heart, and let thine eyes obserue my wayes. |
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| 23:27 |
For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
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| 23:28 |
She also lyeth in wait as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours among men. |
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| 23:29 |
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath rednesse of eyes? |
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| 23:30 |
They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine. |
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| 23:31 |
Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is red, when it giueth his colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe aright. |
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| 23:32 |
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
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| 23:33 |
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall vtter peruerse things. |
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| 23:34 |
Yea thou shalt be as he that lyeth downe in the midst of the sea, or as he that lyeth vpon the top of a mast. |
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| 23:35 |
They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe. |
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