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Links to all Books and Chapters Today's Date: ======= Proverbs 23:1 ============ Pro 23:1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you, (nasb) Pro 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:(kjv) Pro 23:1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:2 ============ Pro 23:2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite. (nasb) Pro 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.(kjv) Pro 23:2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:3 ============ Pro 23:3 Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food. (nasb) Pro 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.(kjv) Pro 23:3 Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceptive food.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:4 ============ Pro 23:4 Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it. (nasb) Pro 23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.(kjv) Pro 23:4 Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:5 ============ Pro 23:5 When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens. (nasb) Pro 23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.(kjv) Pro 23:5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:6 ============ Pro 23:6 Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies; (nasb) Pro 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:(kjv) Pro 23:6 Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:7 ============ Pro 23:7 For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you. (nasb) Pro 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.(kjv) Pro 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:8 ============ Pro 23:8 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments. (nasb) Pro 23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.(kjv) Pro 23:8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:9 ============ Pro 23:9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words. (nasb) Pro 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.(kjv) Pro 23:9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:10 ============ Pro 23:10 Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless, (nasb) Pro 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:(kjv) Pro 23:10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:11 ============ Pro 23:11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you. (nasb) Pro 23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.(kjv) Pro 23:11 For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:12 ============ Pro 23:12 Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge. (nasb) Pro 23:12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.(kjv) Pro 23:12 Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:13 ============ Pro 23:13 Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die. (nasb) Pro 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.(kjv) Pro 23:13 Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:14 ============ Pro 23:14 You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol. (nasb) Pro 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.(kjv) Pro 23:14 You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:15 ============ Pro 23:15 My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad; (nasb) Pro 23:15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.(kjv) Pro 23:15 My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice--indeed, I myself;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:16 ============ Pro 23:16 And my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right. (nasb) Pro 23:16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.(kjv) Pro 23:16 Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:17 ============ Pro 23:17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the Lord always. (nasb) Pro 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.(kjv) Pro 23:17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the Lord all the day;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:18 ============ Pro 23:18 Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off. (nasb) Pro 23:18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.(kjv) Pro 23:18 For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will not be cut off.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:19 ============ Pro 23:19 Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way. (nasb) Pro 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.(kjv) Pro 23:19 Hear, my son, and be wise; And guide your heart in the way(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:20 ============ Pro 23:20 Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat; (nasb) Pro 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:(kjv) Pro 23:20 Do not mix with winebibbers, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:21 ============ Pro 23:21 For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags. (nasb) Pro 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.(kjv) Pro 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:22 ============ Pro 23:22 Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. (nasb) Pro 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.(kjv) Pro 23:22 Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:23 ============ Pro 23:23 Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. (nasb) Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.(kjv) Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:24 ============ Pro 23:24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him. (nasb) Pro 23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.(kjv) Pro 23:24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:25 ============ Pro 23:25 Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you. (nasb) Pro 23:25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.(kjv) Pro 23:25 Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who bore you rejoice.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:26 ============ Pro 23:26 Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes delight in my ways. (nasb) Pro 23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.(kjv) Pro 23:26 My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:27 ============ Pro 23:27 For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well. (nasb) Pro 23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.(kjv) Pro 23:27 For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:28 ============ Pro 23:28 Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men. (nasb) Pro 23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.(kjv) Pro 23:28 She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:29 ============ Pro 23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? (nasb) Pro 23:29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?(kjv) Pro 23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:30 ============ Pro 23:30 Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine. (nasb) Pro 23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.(kjv) Pro 23:30 Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:31 ============ Pro 23:31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly; (nasb) Pro 23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.(kjv) Pro 23:31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly;(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:32 ============ Pro 23:32 At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper. (nasb) Pro 23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.(kjv) Pro 23:32 At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:33 ============ Pro 23:33 Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things. (nasb) Pro 23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.(kjv) Pro 23:33 Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things.(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:34 ============ Pro 23:34 And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast. (nasb) Pro 23:34 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.(kjv) Pro 23:34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 23:35 ============ Pro 23:35 "They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink." (nasb) Pro 23:35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.(kjv) Pro 23:35 "They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?"(nkjv) ======= Proverbs 24:1 ============ Pro 24:1 Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; (nasb) Pro 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.(kjv) Pro 24:1 Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;(nkjv) |
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