dynamicbible/bibles/asv/20-23.json

{"ch":23,"vss":[{"v":1,"w":[{"t":"When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;"}]},{"v":2,"w":[{"t":"And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite."}]},{"v":3,"w":[{"t":"Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food."}]},{"v":4,"w":[{"t":"Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom."}]},{"v":5,"w":[{"t":"Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven."}]},{"v":6,"w":[{"t":"Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:"}]},{"v":7,"w":[{"t":"For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee."}]},{"v":8,"w":[{"t":"The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words."}]},{"v":9,"w":[{"t":"Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words."}]},{"v":10,"w":[{"t":"Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:"}]},{"v":11,"w":[{"t":"For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee."}]},{"v":12,"w":[{"t":"Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge."}]},{"v":13,"w":[{"t":"Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die."}]},{"v":14,"w":[{"t":"Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol."}]},{"v":15,"w":[{"t":"My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:"}]},{"v":16,"w":[{"t":"Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things."}]},{"v":17,"w":[{"t":"Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:"}]},{"v":18,"w":[{"t":"For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off."}]},{"v":19,"w":[{"t":"Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way."}]},{"v":20,"w":[{"t":"Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:"}]},{"v":21,"w":[{"t":"For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags."}]},{"v":22,"w":[{"t":"Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old."}]},{"v":23,"w":[{"t":"Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."}]},{"v":24,"w":[{"t":"The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him."}]},{"v":25,"w":[{"t":"Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice."}]},{"v":26,"w":[{"t":"My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways."}]},{"v":27,"w":[{"t":"For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit."}]},{"v":28,"w":[{"t":"Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men."}]},{"v":29,"w":[{"t":"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?"}]},{"v":30,"w":[{"t":"They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine."}]},{"v":31,"w":[{"t":"Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:"}]},{"v":32,"w":[{"t":"At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder."}]},{"v":33,"w":[{"t":"Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things."}]},{"v":34,"w":[{"t":"Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of       the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."}]},{"v":35,"w":[{"t":"They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not       hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."}]}]}