| 23:1 | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what before thee: | |
| 23:2 | And put a knife to thy throat, if thou a man given to appetite. | |
| 23:3 | Be not desirous of his dainties: for they deceitful food. | |
| 23:4 | Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom. | |
| 23:5 | Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven. | |
| 23:6 | Eat thou not the bread of an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties: | |
| 23:7 | For as he thinketh in his heart, so he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart not with thee. | |
| 23:8 | The morsel thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. | |
| 23:9 | Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. | |
| 23:10 | Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: | |
| 23:11 | For their redeemer mighty; he will plead their cause with thee. | |
| 23:12 | Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge. | |
| 23:13 | Withhold not correction from the child: for thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. | |
| 23:14 | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. | |
| 23:15 | My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. | |
| 23:16 | Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. | |
| 23:17 | Let not thy heart envy sinners: but in the fear of the LORD all the day long. | |
| 23:18 | For surely there is an end; and thy expectation shall not be cut off. | |
| 23:19 | Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way. | |
| 23:20 | Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: | |
| 23:21 | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe with rags. | |
| 23:22 | Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. | |
| 23:23 | Buy the truth, and sell not; wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. | |
| 23:24 | The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise shall have joy of him. | |
| 23:25 | Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice. | |
| 23:26 | My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways. | |
| 23:27 | For a lewd woman a deep ditch; and a strange woman a narrow pit. | |
| 23:28 | She also lieth in wait as a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. | |
| 23:29 | Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? | |
| 23:30 | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. | |
| 23:31 | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, it moveth itself aright. | |
| 23:32 | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. | |
| 23:33 | Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. | |
| 23:34 | And 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. | |
| 23:35 | They have stricken me, , I was not sick; they have beaten me, I felt not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. | |