Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 23

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Proverbs 23:1

When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,

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Genesis 43 . 32-34

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Proverbs 23:2

and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.

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Proverbs 23:3

Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

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Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

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Proverbs 23:5

When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

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set thine eyes upon Heb. cause thine eyes to fly upon , etc. "He expresses it in such a way ," says Abp. Tillotson , "as if a rich man sat brooding over an estate till it was fledged , and gotten itself wings to fly away."

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

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Proverbs 23:7

for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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Proverbs 23:8

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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Proverbs 23:9

Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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Proverbs 23:10

Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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landmark or , bound

Proverbs 23:11

for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.

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Proverbs 23:12

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

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Proverbs 23:13

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

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Proverbs 23:14

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

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Proverbs 23:15

My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.

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or , even I will rejoice

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Proverbs 23:16

My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

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Proverbs 23:17

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

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Proverbs 23:18

For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

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or , reward

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Proverbs 23:19

Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.

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in the way That is "in the right way.

Proverbs 23:20

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

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flesh Heb. their flesh

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

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Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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Proverbs 23:23

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

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Proverbs 23:24

The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

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Proverbs 23:25

May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

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Proverbs 23:26

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

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Proverbs 23:27

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

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Proverbs 23:28

Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

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or , as a robber

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Proverbs 23:29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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Who hath woe16 parallels

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Proverbs 23:30

Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

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That is , not wine diluted and lowered with water , but made stronger and more inebriating , by the addition of more powerful ingredients , as honey , spices , myrrh , defrutum , opiates , etc

Proverbs 23:31

Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

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Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

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or , a cockatrice

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Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

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Proverbs 23:34

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

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Heb. heart

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Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

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Heb. I knew it not

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web4 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Ephesians 5:18 → Proverbs 23:31
Chiasms
Shaped Proverbs 23:19–26, Proverbs 23:2–6, Proverbs 23:31–33
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