Proverbs 23:1-10 New American Standard Bible
On Life and Conduct
23 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
Consider carefully [a]what is before you,
2 And put a knife to your throat
If you are a (A)person of great appetite.
3 Do not (B)desire his delicacies,
For it is deceptive food.
4 (C)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
[b](D)Stop dwelling on it.
5 [c]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For (E)wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
6 (F)Do not eat the bread of [d]a (G)selfish person;
Or desire his delicacies;
7 For as he [e]thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But (H)his heart is not with you.
8 You will (I)vomit up [f]the morsel you have eaten
And waste your [g]compliments.
10 Do not move the ancient boundary
Or (L)go into the fields of the fatherless,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:1 Or who
- Proverbs 23:4 Lit Refrain from your understanding of it
- Proverbs 23:5 Lit Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?
- Proverbs 23:6 Lit an evil eye
- Proverbs 23:7 Lit reckons in his soul
- Proverbs 23:8 Lit your
- Proverbs 23:8 Lit pleasant words
- Proverbs 23:9 Lit in the ears of a
Cross references
- Proverbs 23:2 : Prov 23:20
- Proverbs 23:3 : Ps 141:4; Prov 23:6; Dan 1:5, 8, 13, 15, 16
- Proverbs 23:4 : Prov 15:27; 28:20; Matt 6:19; 1 Tim 6:9; Heb 13:5
- Proverbs 23:4 : Prov 3:5, 7
- Proverbs 23:5 : Prov 27:24; 1 Tim 6:17
- Proverbs 23:6 : Ps 141:4
- Proverbs 23:6 : Deut 15:9; Prov 28:22
- Proverbs 23:7 : Prov 26:24, 25
- Proverbs 23:8 : Prov 25:16
- Proverbs 23:9 : Matt 7:6
- Proverbs 23:9 : Prov 1:7
- Proverbs 23:10 : Jer 22:3; Zech 7:10
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