Proverbs:23:1-24:22

geneva@Proverbs:23:1 @ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, (note:)Eat with sobriety.(:note) consider diligently what [is] before thee:

geneva@Proverbs:23:2 @

geneva@Proverbs:23:3 @ Be not desirous of his dainties: (note:)For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes.(:note) for they [are] deceitful food.

geneva@Proverbs:23:4 @ Labour not to be rich: cease from thy own (note:)Bestow not the gifts that God has given you, to get worldly riches.(:note) wisdom.

geneva@Proverbs:23:5 @ Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? For riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.

geneva@Proverbs:23:6 @ Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an (note:)That is, covetous, as contrary a good eye is taken for liberal as in (Pro_22:9).(:note) evil eye, neither desire thou his delicacies:

geneva@Proverbs:23:7 @ For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.

geneva@Proverbs:23:8 @ The (note:)He will not cease till he has done you some harm, and his flattering words will come to no use.(:note) morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

geneva@Proverbs:23:9 @ Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.

geneva@Proverbs:23:10 @ Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.

geneva@Proverbs:23:11 @ For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.

geneva@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.

geneva@Proverbs:23:13 @ Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.

geneva@Proverbs:23:14 @ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from (note:)That is, from destruction.(:note) hell.

geneva@Proverbs:23:15 @ My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.

geneva@Proverbs:23:16 @ And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.

geneva@Proverbs:23:17 @ Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lorde continually.

geneva@Proverbs:23:18 @ For surely there is an end; (note:)The prosperity of the wicked will not continue.(:note) and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

geneva@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the (note:)In the observation of God's commandments.(:note) way.

geneva@Proverbs:23:20 @ Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.

geneva@Proverbs:23:21 @ For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.

geneva@Proverbs:23:22 @ Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.

geneva@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy (note:)Spare no cost for truths sake, neither depart from it for any gain.(:note) the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

geneva@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous shal greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.

geneva@Proverbs:23:25 @ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.

geneva@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give me (note:)Give yourself wholly to wisdom.(:note) thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.

geneva@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

geneva@Proverbs:23:28 @ She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, (note:)She seduces many and causes them to offend God.(:note) and increaseth the transgressors among men.

geneva@Proverbs:23:29 @ To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes?

geneva@Proverbs:23:30 @ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go (note:)Who by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.(:note) to seek mixed wine.

geneva@Proverbs:23:31 @ Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.

geneva@Proverbs:23:32 @ In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

geneva@Proverbs:23:33 @ Thy (note:)That is, drunkenness will bring you to whoredom.(:note) eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

geneva@Proverbs:23:34 @ And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the (note:)In such great danger will you be.(:note) sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

geneva@Proverbs:23:35 @ 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 (note:)Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.(:note) seek it yet again.

geneva@Proverbs:24:1 @ Bee not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.

geneva@Proverbs:24:2 @ For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

geneva@Proverbs:24:3 @ Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.

geneva@Proverbs:24:4 @ And by knowledge shall the chambers bee filled with all precious, and pleasant riches.

geneva@Proverbs:24:5 @ A wise man is strong: for a man of vnderstanding encreaseth his strength.

geneva@Proverbs:24:6 @ For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.

geneva@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the (note:)In the place where wisdom should be shown.(:note) gate.

geneva@Proverbs:24:8 @ Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.

geneva@Proverbs:24:9 @ The wicked thought of a foole is sinne, and the scorner is an abomination vnto men.

geneva@Proverbs:24:10 @ [If] thou (note:)Man has no trial of his strength till he is in trouble.(:note) faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.

geneva@Proverbs:24:11 @ If thou refraineth to deliver [them that are] drawn to (note:)No one can be excused, if he does not help the innocent when he is in danger.(:note) death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;

geneva@Proverbs:24:12 @ If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it? And hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?

geneva@Proverbs:24:13 @ My son, eat thou (note:)As honey is sweet and pleasant to the taste, so wisdom is to the soul.(:note) honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:

geneva@Proverbs:24:14 @ So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.

geneva@Proverbs:24:15 @ Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

geneva@Proverbs:24:16 @ For a just [man] (note:)He is subject to many perils, but God delivers him.(:note) falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

geneva@Proverbs:24:17 @ Bee thou not glad when thine enemie falleth, and let not thine heart reioyce when hee stumbleth,

geneva@Proverbs:24:18 @ Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath (note:)To be avenged on you.(:note) from him.

geneva@Proverbs:24:19 @ Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.

geneva@Proverbs:24:20 @ For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.

geneva@Proverbs:24:21 @ My sonne feare the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are sedicious.

geneva@Proverbs:24:22 @ For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them (note:)Meaning, either of the wicked and seditious, as in (Pro_24:19, Pro_24:21) or of them who do not fear God or obey their king.(:note) both?

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