acv - Proverbs:23:1-24:22

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.

acv@Proverbs:24:1 @ Be not thou envious against evil men, nor desire to be with them.

acv@Proverbs:24:2 @ For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.

acv@Proverbs:24:3 @ Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established,

acv@Proverbs:24:4 @ and by knowledge the chambers are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

acv@Proverbs:24:5 @ A wise man is strong, yea, a man of knowledge increases might.

acv@Proverbs:24:6 @ For by wise guidance thou shall make thy war, and in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

acv@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.

acv@Proverbs:24:8 @ He who devises to do evil, men shall call him a mischief-maker.

acv@Proverbs:24:9 @ The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

acv@Proverbs:24:10 @ If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

acv@Proverbs:24:11 @ Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.

acv@Proverbs:24:12 @ If thou say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

acv@Proverbs:24:13 @ My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste,

acv@Proverbs:24:14 @ so the knowledge of wisdom [is] to thy soul. If thou have found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

acv@Proverbs:24:15 @ Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place.

acv@Proverbs:24:16 @ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

acv@Proverbs:24:17 @ Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown,

acv@Proverbs:24:18 @ lest LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

acv@Proverbs:24:19 @ Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, nor be thou envious at the wicked.

acv@Proverbs:24:20 @ For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

acv@Proverbs:24:21 @ My son, fear thou LORD and the king, [and] do not associate with those who are given to change.

acv@Proverbs:24:22 @ For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and the destruction from them both, who knows it?