# Proverbs 23

> Lumin Translation

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

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you,
2. and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.
3. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
4. Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the sense to stop.
5. When you set your eyes on it, it is gone, for it will surely make itself wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
6. Do not eat the food of a stingy person, and do not crave his delicacies,
7. for he is the kind who is always counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8. You will vomit up the bit you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
9. Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
10. Do not move an ancient boundary stone or go into the fields of the fatherless,
11. for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their case against you.
12. Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
13. Do not hold back discipline from a child; if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
14. Strike him with the rod yourself, and you will rescue his soul from Sheol.
15. My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will be glad too.
16. My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17. Do not let your heart envy sinners; instead, live in the fear of Yahweh all day long.
18. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19. Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path.
20. Do not be among those who drink too much wine or those who gorge themselves on meat,
21. for the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
22. Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23. Buy truth and do not sell it—wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24. The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will be glad in him.
25. Let your father and your mother be glad; let her who gave birth to you rejoice.
26. My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways.
27. For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a narrow well.
28. She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the unfaithful among men.
29. Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has quarrels? Who has complaints? Who has wounds for no reason? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30. Those who linger over wine, who go looking for mixed wine.
31. Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
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 speak twisted things.
34. You will be like someone lying down in the middle of the sea, like someone lying on top of a mast.
35. “They hit me, but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When will I wake up? I will go looking for it 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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