{"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/dbt/proverbs/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:07:35.558Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 well who 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; for they are deceitful food."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Speak not in the ears of a foolish man, 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 mighty; 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 beatest him with the rod, he shall 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 shall rejoice, even mine;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and my reins shall exult, 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;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy 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 clotheth 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; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"My son, give me thy heart, and let thine 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 lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and 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 women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"'They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''"}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 23 (DBT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 23](https://primebible.com/dbt/proverbs/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/proverbs/23 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}