Proverbs:23:15-35
Seeker Overlay ON
*
My son ,
if thine heart be wise ,
my heart shall rejoice ,
even mine .
*
Yea ,
my reins shall rejoice ,
when thy lips speak right things .
*
Let not thine heart envy sinners :
but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long .
*
For surely there is an end ;
and thine expectation shall not be cut off .
*
Hear thou ,
my son ,
and be wise ,
and guide thine heart in the way .
*
Be not among winebibbers ;
among riotous eaters of flesh :
*
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty :
and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags .
*
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee ,
and despise not thy mother when she is old .
*
Buy the truth ,
and sell it not ;
also wisdom ,
and instruction ,
and understanding .
*
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice :
and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him .
*
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad ,
and she that bare thee shall rejoice .
*
My son ,
give me thine heart ,
and let thine eyes observe my ways .
*
For a whore is a deep ditch ;
and a strange woman is a narrow pit .
*
She also lieth in wait as for a prey ,
and increaseth the transgressors among men .
*
Who hath woe ?
who hath sorrow ?
who hath contentions ?
who hath babbling ?
who hath wounds without cause ?
who hath redness of eyes ?
*
They that tarry long at the wine ;
they that go to seek mixed wine .
*
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red ,
when it giveth his colour in the cup ,
when it moveth itself aright .
*
At the last it biteth like a serpent ,
and stingeth like an adder .
*
Thine eyes shall behold strange women ,
and thine heart shall utter perverse things .
*
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 .
*
They have stricken me ,
shalt thou 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 .