Verse 23
Proverbs 23:23
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
23
Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֱמֶ֣ת קְ֭נֵה וְ/אַל תִּמְכֹּ֑ר חָכְמָ֖ה וּ/מוּסָ֣ר וּ/בִינָֽה
English Translation
Acquire truth and do not sell wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
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Chapter 23 Context
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When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.
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And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
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Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
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Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
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Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings l...
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Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
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Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will h...
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The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
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Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
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Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
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For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
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Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
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Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
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My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
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And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
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Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
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Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
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Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
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Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsin...
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Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
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Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
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My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
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For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
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Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds with...
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Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.
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Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in...
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But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
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Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
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And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the ster...
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And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt no...
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