Bible in one year 10/18/ 2022 Proverbs Chapter 23-24 By Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce

Bible in one year 10/18/ 2022 Proverbs Chapter 23-24 

By Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce                                                                                                          

Christian Arts Ministries: Biblical precepts & Gospel music; Pastoral ministry & Counseling

 

Proverbs chapter 23

           Proverbs 23: 1-3 one must exercise caution in the presence of a ruler, for he may entertain with ulterior motives. Put a knife to your throat. I.e., restrain your appetite at all cost. The good hospitality may have a sinister purpose behind it. The warning is against coveting riches (vv.4-5). A wise teacher warns against receiving favors from a insincere host.(vv.6-8). A wise teacher warns against exploiting the defenseless poor.(vv.10-11). A wise teacher warns of neglecting child discipline. (vv.13-14). Discipline may deliver a child from an untimely death.(v.14). Don’t be unduly burdened by the problems of the present, but allow a proper perspective on the future to help you maintain a buoyant and cheerful attitude in the present. (v.18). Whoever is enticed by the harlot or adulteress comes to inescapable doom.(v.27). In warning against drunkenness, a wise teacher presents a case study of a drunkard. (vv.29-35). The warning is to avoid wine’s enticements of beauty and taste.(v.31). The picture is of a drunken sailor who falls into the sea and drowns, or goes to sleep in the crow’s nest.(v.24). A drunk may be involved in a fight but be in such a stupor that he does not feel the blows on his body.(v.35). 

Proverbs 23 (KJV)
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¹ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
² And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
³ Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
⁴ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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.
⁶ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
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.
⁸ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
⁹ Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
¹² Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
¹⁵ My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
¹⁶ Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
¹⁷ Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
¹⁸ For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
²⁰ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
²⁵ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
²⁸ She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
³² At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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.
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.

(CKJVGT)箴 23 (CKJVGT)
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¹ 你若與官長坐席，要留意在你面前的是甚麼。
² 你若是貪食的，就當拿刀放在喉嚨上。
³ 不可貪戀他的美食，因為是哄人的食物。
⁴ 不要勞碌求富，休仗自己的聰明。
⁵ 你豈要定睛在虛無的錢財上嗎？因錢財必長翅膀，如鷹向天飛去。
⁶ 不要吃惡眼人的餅，也不要貪他的美食；
⁷ 因為他心怎樣思量，他為人就是怎樣。他雖對你說，請吃，請喝，他的心卻與你相背。
⁸ 你所吃的那點食物必吐出來；你所說的甘美言語也必落空。
⁹ 你不要說話給愚昧人聽，因他必藐視你智慧的言語。
¹⁰ 不可挪移古時的地界；也不可侵入無父之人的田地。
¹¹ 因他們的救贖主大有能力，他必向你為他們辨屈。
¹² 你要留心領受訓誨，側耳聽從知識的言語。
¹³ 不可不管教孩童；你用杖打他，他必不至於死。
¹⁴ 你要用杖打他，就可以救他的元魂免下地獄。
¹⁵ 我兒，你心若存智慧，我的心也甚歡喜。
¹⁶ 你的嘴若說正確話，我的肺腑也必快樂。
¹⁷ 你心中不要嫉妒罪人，只要終日敬畏　耶和華；
¹⁸ 因為至終必有善報，你的指望也不致斷絕。
¹⁹ 我兒，你當聽，當存智慧，好在正道上引導你的心。
²⁰ 好飲酒的，好吃肉的，不要與他們來往；
²¹ 因為好酒貪食的，必致貧窮；好睡覺的，必穿破爛衣服。
²² 你要聽從生你的父親；你母親老了，也不可藐視她。
²³ 你當買真理；就是智慧、訓誨，和聰明也都不可賣。
²⁴ 義人的父親必大得快樂；人生智慧的孩子，必因他歡喜。
²⁵ 你要使父母歡喜，使生你的快樂。
²⁶ 我兒，要將你的心歸我；你的眼目也要謹守我的道路。
²⁷ 淫婦是深阱；外女是窄坑。
²⁸ 她又埋伏，好像要得掠物；她使人中加增犯罪的。
²⁹ 誰有禍患？誰有憂愁？誰有爭鬥？誰胡言亂語？誰無故受傷？誰眼目紅赤？
³⁰ 就是那流連飲酒、常去尋找調和酒的人。
³¹ 酒發紅，在杯中閃爍，你不可觀看，雖然下咽舒暢，
³² 終久是咬你如蛇，刺你如虺。
³³ 你眼必看見外女；你心必發出乖謬的話。
³⁴ 你必像躺在海中，或像臥在桅杆上。
³⁵ 你必說：人打我，我卻未受傷；人鞭打我，我竟不覺得。我幾時清醒，我仍去尋酒。

 

Bibliography,

Ryrie, Charles C. The Ryrie study Bible (NIV). Chicago, IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986.

 King James, The Holy Bible (KJV). Cleveland, OH: The world publishing company