Proverbs 23

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, keep in mind who is before you;	1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
2 And put a knife to your throat if you have a ravenous appetite.	2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
3 Do not desire his delicacies; they are deceitful food.	3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
4 Toil not to gain wealth, cease to be concerned about it;	4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
5 While your glance flits to it, it is gone! for assuredly it grows wings, like the eagle that flies toward heaven.	5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 Do not take food with a grudging man, and do not desire his dainties;	6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7 For in his greed he is like a storm. "Eat and drink," he says to you, though his heart is not with you;	7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8 The little you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will have wasted your agreeable words.	8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
9 Speak not for the fool's hearing; he will despise the wisdom of your words.	9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 Remove not the ancient landmark, nor invade the fields of orphans;	10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For their redeemer is strong; he will defend their cause against you.	11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge.	12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not chastisement from a boy; if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.	13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Beat him with the rod, and you will save him from the nether world.	14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
15 My son, if your heart be wise, my own heart also will rejoice;	15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 And my inmost being will exult, when your lips speak what is right.	16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
17 Let not your heart emulate sinners, but be zealous for the fear of the LORD always;	17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
18 For you will surely have a future, and your hope will not be cut off.	18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the right way.	19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20 Consort not with winebibbers, nor with those who eat meat to excess;	20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and torpor clothes a man in rags.	21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22 Listen to your father who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.	22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Get the truth, and sell it not-- wisdom, instruction and understanding.	23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of a just man will exult with glee; he who begets a wise son will have joy in him.	24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Let your father and mother have joy; let her who bore you exult.	25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways.	26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For the harlot is a deep ditch, and the adulteress a narrow pit;	27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the faithless among men.	28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
29 Who scream? Who shriek? Who have strife? Who have anxiety? Who have wounds for nothing? Who have black eyes?	29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 Those who linger long over wine, those who engage in trials of blended wine.	30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the glass. It goes down smoothly;	31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 but in the end it bites like a serpent, or like a poisonous adder.	32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Your eyes behold strange sights, and your heart utters disordered thoughts;	33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34 You are like one now lying in the depths of the sea, now sprawled at the top of the mast.	34 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.
35 "They struck me, but it pained me not; They beat me, but I felt it not; When shall I awake to seek wine once again?"	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 seek it yet again.