Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Proverbs 23

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Chapter 23

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

Genesis 43:32-34 Jude 1:12

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

Matthew 18:8,9 1 Corinthians 9:27 Philippians 3:19

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

6 Psalms 141:4 Daniel 1:8 Luke 21:34 Ephesians 4:22

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Labour

28:20 John 6:27 1 Timothy 6:8-10

cease

3:5 26:12 Isaiah 5:21 Romans 11:25 12:16

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

thou

Psalms 119:36,37 Jeremiah 22:17 1 John 2:16

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."

that which

Genesis 42:36 Ecclesiastes 1:2 12:8 Isaiah 55:2 1 Corinthians 7:29-31

riches

27:24 Job 1:14-17 Psalms 39:6 Ecclesiastes 5:13,14 Matthew 6:19 1 Timothy 6:17 James 5:1,2

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

an

22:9 Deuteronomy 15:9 28:56 Matthew 20:15 Mark 7:22

desire

3 Psalms 141:4 Daniel 1:8-10

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

as

19:22 Matthew 9:3,4 Luke 7:39

Eat

Judges 16:15 2 Samuel 13:26-28 Psalms 12:2 55:21 Daniel 11:27 Luke 11:37-54

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Speak

9:7,8 26:4,5 Isaiah 36:21 Matthew 7:6 Acts 13:45,46 28:25-28

he

Luke 16:14 John 8:52 9:30-34,40 10:20 Acts 17:18,32 1 Corinthians 1:21-24 1 Corinthians 4:10-13

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Remove

22:28 Deuteronomy 19:14 27:17 Job 24:2

landmark

or, bound. fatherless.

Job 6:27 22:9 24:3,9 31:21-23 Psalms 94:6 Jeremiah 7:5 22:3 Zechariah 7:10 Malachi 3:5 James 1:27

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

22:23 Exodus 22:22-24 Deuteronomy 27:19 Psalms 12:5 Jeremiah 50:33,34 51:36

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

19 2:2-6 5:1,2 22:17 Ezekiel 33:31 Matthew 13:52 James 1:21-25

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

13:24 19:18 29:15,17

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

22:15 1 Corinthians 5:5 11:32

My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

My son

1:10 2:1 4:1 Matthew 9:2 John 21:5 1 John 2:1

if

24,25 10:1 15:20 29:3 1 Thessalonians 2:19,20 3:8,9 2 John 1:4 3 John 1:3,4

even mine

or, even I will rejoice.

Jeremiah 32:41 Zephaniah 3:17 Luke 15:23,24,32 John 15:11

Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

thy

8:6 Ephesians 4:29 5:4 Colossians 4:4 James 3:2

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

not

3:31 24:1 Psalms 37:1-3 73:3-7

be thou

15:16 28:14 Psalms 111:10 112:1 Ecclesiastes 5:7 12:13,14 Acts 9:31 2 Corinthians 7:1 1 Peter 1:17

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

surely

Psalms 37:37 Jeremiah 29:11 Luke 16:25 Romans 6:21,22

end

or, reward.

24:14 Hebrews 10:35

thine

Psalms 9:18 Jeremiah 29:11 Philippians 1:20

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

and guide

12,26 4:10-23

in the way

That is "in the right way."

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

not

29-35 20:1 28:7 31:6,7 Isaiah 5:11,22 22:13 Matthew 24:49 Luke 15:13 Luke 16:19 21:34 Romans 13:13 Ephesians 5:18 1 Peter 4:3,4

flesh

Heb. their flesh.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

the drunkard

21:17 Deuteronomy 21:20 Isaiah 28:1-3 Joel 1:5 1 Corinthians 5:11 6:10 Galatians 5:21 Philippians 3:19

drowsiness

6:9-11 19:15 24:30-34

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Hearken

1:8 6:20 Deuteronomy 21:18-21 27:16 Mark 7:10 Ephesians 6:1,2

despise

30:11 Leviticus 19:3 Matthew 15:4-6 John 19:26,27

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Buy

2:2-4 4:5-7 10:1 16:16 17:16 Job 28:12-19 Psalms 119:72,127 Isaiah 55:1 Matthew 13:44,46 Philippians 3:7,8 Revelation 3:18

sell

Matthew 16:26 Acts 20:23 Hebrews 11:26 Revelation 12:11

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

father

15,16 10:1 15:20 1 Kings 1:48 2:1-3,9 Ecclesiastes 2:19

shall have

Philemon 1:9,20

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

and she

17:25 1 Chronicles 4:9,10 Luke 1:31-33,40-47,58 11:27,28

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

My son

give

4:23 Deuteronomy 6:5 Matthew 10:37,38 Luke 14:26 2 Corinthians 5:14,15 8:5 Ephesians 3:17

let

4:25-27 Psalms 107:43 119:2,9-11 Hosea 14:9 2 Peter 1:19

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

22:14

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

as for a prey

or, as a robber.

2:16-19 7:12,22-27 9:18 22:14 Judges 16:4-22 Ecclesiastes 7:26 Jeremiah 3:2

increaseth

Numbers 25:1 Hosea 4:11 1 Corinthians 10:8 Revelation 17:1,2

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? (8675) who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Who hath woe

21 20:1 1 Samuel 25:36,37 2 Samuel 13:28 1 Kings 20:16-22 Isaiah 5:11,22 Isaiah 28:7,8 Nahum 1:10 Matthew 24:49,50 Luke 12:45,46 Ephesians 5:18

redness

Genesis 49:12

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

tarry

20:1 Genesis 9:21 Isaiah 5:11 Amos 6:6 Ephesians 5:18

mixed

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.

9:2 Psalms 75:8

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

6:25 2 Samuel 11:2 Job 33:1 Psalms 119:37 Matthew 5:28-30 Mark 9:47 1 John 2:16

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

At

5:11 Isaiah 28:3,7,8 Jeremiah 5:31 Exodus 7:5,6,12 Luke 16:25,26 Romans 6:21

biteth

Ecclesiastes 10:8 Jeremiah 8:17 Amos 5:19 9:3

an adder

or, a cockatrice.

Isaiah 59:5

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

eyes

Genesis 19:32-38

and

31:5 Psalms 69:12 Daniel 5:4 Hosea 7:5 Jude 1:12,13

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.

thou

1 Samuel 25:33-38 30:16,17 2 Samuel 13:28 1 Kings 16:9 20:16-22 Joel 1:5 Matthew 24:38 Luke 17:27-29 21:34 1 Thessalonians 5:2-7

midst

Heb. heart.

Exodus 15:8

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.

stricken

27:22 Jeremiah 5:3 31:18

I felt it not

Heb. I knew it not.

Ephesians 4:19

I will

26:11 Deuteronomy 29:19 Isaiah 22:13 56:12 1 Corinthians 15:32-34 2 Peter 2:22