Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
Quotes around Verses      |
 Pro 23:1 |
When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully [fn]what is before you, |
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Pro 23:2 |
And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite. |
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Pro 23:3 |
Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food. |
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Pro 23:4 |
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your [fn]consideration of it. |
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Pro 23:5 |
[fn]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens. |
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Pro 23:6 |
Do not eat the bread of [fn]a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies; |
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Pro 23:7 |
For as he [fn]thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you. |
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Pro 23:8 |
You will vomit up [fn]the morsel you have eaten, And waste your [fn]compliments. |
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Pro 23:9 |
Do not speak in the [fn]hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words. |
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Pro 23:10 |
Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless, |
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Pro 23:11 |
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you. |
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Pro 23:12 |
Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge. |
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Pro 23:13 |
Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you [fn]strike him with the rod, he will not die. |
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Pro 23:14 |
You shall [fn]strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol. |
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Pro 23:15 |
My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad; |
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Pro 23:16 |
And my [fn]inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right. |
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Pro 23:17 |
Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the [fn]fear of the LORD [fn]always. |
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Pro 23:18 |
Surely there is a [fn]future, And your hope will not be cut off. |
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Pro 23:19 |
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way. |
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Pro 23:20 |
Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat; |
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Pro 23:21 |
For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags. |
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Pro 23:22 |
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. |
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Pro 23:23 |
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. |
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Pro 23:24 |
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him. |
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Pro 23:25 |
Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you. |
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Pro 23:26 |
Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes [fn]delight in my ways. |
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Pro 23:27 |
For a harlot is a deep pit And an [fn]adulterous woman is a narrow well. |
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Pro 23:28 |
Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the [fn]faithless among men. |
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Pro 23:29 |
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? |
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Pro 23:30 |
Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to [fn]taste mixed wine. |
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Pro 23:31 |
Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it [fn]sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly; |
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Pro 23:32 |
At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper. |
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Pro 23:33 |
Your eyes will see strange things And your [fn]mind will utter perverse things. |
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Pro 23:34 |
And you will be like one who lies down in the [fn]middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a [fn]mast. |
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Pro 23:35 |
"They struck me, but I did not become [fn]ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will seek [fn]another drink." |
NASB Footnotes:
- (23:1) Or, who
- (23:4) Or, understanding
- (23:5) Literally: Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?
- (23:6) Literally: an evil eye
- (23:7) Literally: reckons in his soul
- (23:8) Literally: your
- (23:8) Literally: pleasant words
- (23:9) Literally: ears
- (23:13) Literally: smite
- (23:14) Literally: smite
- (23:16) Literally: kidneys
- (23:17) Or, reverence
- (23:17) Literally: all the day
- (23:18) Literally: latter end
- (23:26) Another reading is observe
- (23:27) Literally: strange
- (23:28) Literally: treacherous
- (23:30) Or, search out
- (23:31) Literally: gives its eye
- (23:33) Literally: heart
- (23:34) Literally: heart
- (23:34) Or, lookout
- (23:35) I.e. from the effect of wounds
- (23:35) Literally: it yet again
