translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: PRO

book: Proverbs

reference: Proverbs 23:1

text: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;


reference: Proverbs 23:2

text: And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.


reference: Proverbs 23:3

text: Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.


reference: Proverbs 23:4

text: Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.


reference: Proverbs 23:5

text: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.


reference: Proverbs 23:6

text: Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:


reference: Proverbs 23:7

text: For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.


reference: Proverbs 23:8

text: The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.


reference: Proverbs 23:9

text: Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.


reference: Proverbs 23:10

text: Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:


reference: Proverbs 23:11

text: For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.


reference: Proverbs 23:12

text: Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.


reference: Proverbs 23:13

text: Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.


reference: Proverbs 23:14

text: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.


reference: Proverbs 23:15

text: My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:


reference: Proverbs 23:16

text: Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.


reference: Proverbs 23:17

text: Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:


reference: Proverbs 23:18

text: For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.


reference: Proverbs 23:19

text: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.


reference: Proverbs 23:20

text: Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:


reference: Proverbs 23:21

text: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.


reference: Proverbs 23:22

text: Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.


reference: Proverbs 23:23

text: Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.


reference: Proverbs 23:24

text: The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.


reference: Proverbs 23:25

text: Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.


reference: Proverbs 23:26

text: My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.


reference: Proverbs 23:27

text: For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.


reference: Proverbs 23:28

text: Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.


reference: Proverbs 23:29

text: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?


reference: Proverbs 23:30

text: They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.


reference: Proverbs 23:31

text: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:


reference: Proverbs 23:32

text: At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.


reference: Proverbs 23:33

text: Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.


reference: Proverbs 23:34

text: Yea, 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.


reference: Proverbs 23:35

text: They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.