Chapter 23
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
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
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
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.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
eyes
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.
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
I felt it not
Heb. I knew it not.
I will
26.11 Deuteronomy 29.19 Isaiah 22.13 56.12 1 Corinthians 15.32-34 2 Peter 2.22