{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:34:45.574Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"They have stricken me, shall you 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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 23 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 23](https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/23 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}