{"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/asv/proverbs/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T03:17:28.517Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea , wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 23 (ASV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 23](https://primebible.com/asv/proverbs/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/proverbs/23 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}