| Ward Green Version, 2003 | American Standard Version, 1901 |
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Proverbs 23 1If you with his lordship would linger to dine 1Do contemplate what is in store 2A knife to your throat will be powerful fine 2To keep you from hungering more 3Now be not desiring that dainty food, see! 3It is as the food of a bribe 4To chase after riches you must not agree 4Nor to your own wisdom subscribe 5For riches you have not to gasp don't you know 5You chase after nothing but lies 5Like eagles' wings far from your grasp they do grow 5And off to the heavens it flies 6Devour not the food of a stingier man 6Desire not his dainties or meats 7He reckons for all but for you in his plan 7When `Eat up!' or `Drink!' he entreats 8Your delicate morsel you'll soon vomit out 8And waste the sweet words from your beak 9Into a fool's ear whisper say scream or shout 9Despicable wisdom you speak 10Don't alter a border perpetual now 10No orphan's land do you take in 11For God his redeemer with strength will endow 11To give recompense for your sin 12Take this to your heart and instruction apply 12To these words of knowledge give ear 13Correction do not from a young boy deny 13But beat him with no deadly fear 14And thrash him you shall with the rod that you save 14By beating him so you keep him from the grave 15My son if your heart now be wise 15My own heart is glad I advise 16My kidneys exult yes they cry out for joy 16When righteous words sprout from the lips of a boy 17And let not your heart envy sin 17In fear of Jehovah begin 17Yes fear you Jehovah the length of the day 18And surely in hope to the end you should pray 18Your hope is alike to a cord 18That cannot be cut by a sword 19My son pray be wise to the things that I say 19And listen to keep your heart straight on its way 20No be not with drinkers of wine 20Nor gluttonous eaters nor swine 21A drunkard and glutton do come to their end 21When sadly it seems there is nothing to spend 21And drowsiness has its own tags 21It clothes one with nothing but rags 22Pay heed to your father who you did create 22Your mother because she's grown old do not hate 23But buy truth and dare you not sell 23The wisest instruction learn well 24Your father will bless you and greatly rejoice 24When you to be righteous decide make the choice 25Your father and mother are glad 25And she that in bearing you had 26Direct o my son you your heart now to me 26May your eyes observe all my gait 27A whore is a ditch for a prostitute be 27A troubling narrowing strait 28A harlot she waits and in ambush she lies 28And seeks she what prey she may find 28She works to effect on the men she espies 28Increasing the treacherous kind 29,30 29Who have such contentions or sorrow or woe 29That bleary-eyed red-faced they pine 29With festering wounds but no visible foe 29For those who continue with wine 31So look not at wine when it gives off a glow 31And sparkles bright red in the cup 32For know in the end it will strike you a blow 32The sting of a snake you bring up 33Your eyes will be caught when a girl misbehaves 33Your heart to perversity cast 34And you as asleep in a sea tossed by waves 34In bed at the top of a mast 35``They struck me but I wasn't hurt by the blow'' 35``They beat me, but I don't feel sore'' 35``I don't even know when I'll wake but I know'' 35``In waking I will find some more'' © 2003 Ward Green. All rights reserved. |
Proverbs 23 1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee; Proverbs 23 2 And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite. Proverbs 23 3 Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food. Proverbs 23 4 Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom. Proverbs 23 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven. Proverbs 23 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties: Proverbs 23 7 For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee. Proverbs 23 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words. Proverbs 23 9 Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Proverbs 23 10 Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: Proverbs 23 11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee. Proverbs 23 12 Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge. Proverbs 23 13 Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. Proverbs 23 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol. Proverbs 23 15 My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine: Proverbs 23 16 Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things. Proverbs 23 17 Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day long: Proverbs 23 18 For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off. Proverbs 23 19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way. Proverbs 23 20 Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: Proverbs 23 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags. Proverbs 23 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old. Proverbs 23 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Proverbs 23 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him. Proverbs 23 25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice. Proverbs 23 26 My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways. Proverbs 23 27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit. Proverbs 23 28 Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men. Proverbs 23 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? Proverbs 23 30 They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine. Proverbs 23 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly: Proverbs 23 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder. Proverbs 23 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things. Proverbs 23 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. Proverbs 23 35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. |