{"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/ylt/proverbs/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T08:15:50.251Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","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, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, 'Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But — in the fear of Jehovah all the day."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Its latter end — as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake — I seek it yet again!'"}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 23 (YLT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 23](https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/23 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}