acv - 23

acv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When thou sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently him who is before thee,

acv@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite.

acv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Be not desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

acv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Weary not thyself to be rich. Out of thine own wisdom, cease.

acv@Proverbs:23:5 @ Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.

acv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Eat thou not the bread of an evil eye, nor desire thou his dainties.

acv@Proverbs:23:7 @ For as he thinks within himself, so [is] he. Eat and drink, he says to thee, but his heart is not with thee.

acv@Proverbs:23:8 @ The morsel which thou have eaten thou shall vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

acv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Speak not in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

acv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,

acv@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.

acv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

acv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Withhold not correction from the child, [for] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

acv@Proverbs:23:14 @ Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from Sheol.

acv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine.

acv@Proverbs:23:16 @ Yea, my heart will rejoice when thy lips speak right things.

acv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of LORD all the day long.

acv@Proverbs:23:18 @ For surely there is a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

acv@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.

acv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of flesh.

acv@Proverbs:23:21 @ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.

acv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Hearken to thy father who begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

acv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth, and do not sell it, [yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

acv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him.

acv@Proverbs:23:25 @ Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.

acv@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.

acv@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep ditch, and an interloping woman is a narrow pit.

acv@Proverbs:23:28 @ Yea, she lays in wait as a robber, and increases the treacherous among men.

acv@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

acv@Proverbs:23:30 @ Those who tarry long at the wine. Those who go to seek out mixed wine.

acv@Proverbs:23:31 @ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

acv@Proverbs:23:32 @ At the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

acv@Proverbs:23:33 @ Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

acv@Proverbs:23:34 @ Yea, thou shall be as he who lays down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lays upon the top of a mast.

acv@Proverbs:23:35 @ They have stricken me, [thou shall say], and I was not hurt. They have beaten me, and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Proverbs 23