# Proverbs 23

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/23

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what lies before you.
2. Put a knife to your throat if you are a master of appetite.
3. Do not crave his delicacies, for they are lying food.
4. Do not labor to become rich; cease from your own understanding.
5. Will your eyes fly to that which is not? For it makes wings for itself like an eagle and flies away to the heavens.
6. Do not eat the bread of one whose eye is evil, nor desire his delicacies.
7. For as he thinks in his soul, so he is. Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8. You will vomit up the morsel you ate and waste your pleasant words.
9. Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will scorn the wisdom of your words.
10. Do not remove an ancient boundary, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.
11. for their redeemer is mighty; he will contend with you over their dispute.
12. Apply your heart to discipline, and your ears to words of knowledge.
13. Do not withhold discipline from a child, for if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
14. Strike him with the rod, and deliver his soul from Sheol.
15. My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will rejoice—even mine.
16. My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak upright things.
17. Do not let your heart envy sinners, but fear Yahweh all day long.
18. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19. Pay attention, my son, be wise, and direct your heart along the path.
20. Do not be among wine drunkards, among gluttons for meat.
21. For drunkards and gluttons will be dispossessed, and drowsiness will dress them in rags.
22. Listen to your father who fathered you, and do not despise your mother when she grows old.
23. Acquire truth and do not sell it—wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
24. The father of the righteous greatly rejoices; he who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
25. Let your father rejoice, and let your mother who bore you exult.
26. My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways and keep them.
27. For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman a narrow well.
28. She also lies in wait as for prey, and multiplies the treacherous among men.
29. Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife and quarrels? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without reason? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30. Those who linger over wine; those who go in search of mixed wine.
31. Do not look on wine when it reddens, when it sends its gleam into the cup, when it goes in even paths.
32. In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
33. Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things.
34. You will be like one lying in the heart of the sea, or like one lying at the top of the mast.
35. They struck me, but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I felt nothing. When will I awake? I will seek it yet again.

## Nearby chapters

[Proverbs 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/22.md)
[Proverbs 24](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/24.md)

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