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.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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
Psalm 119:36,37 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness…
Jeremiah 22:17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and …
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust …
set thine eyes upon or '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 42:3 And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the …
Genesis 12:8 And he removed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and …
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor …
1 Corinthians 7:29-31 But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both …
riches
Proverbs 27:24 For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
Job 1:14-17 And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, …
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …
Ecclesiastes 5:13,14 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …
Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust …
1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, …
James 5:1,2 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
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
Proverbs 19:22 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Matthew 9:3,4 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This …
Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke within …
eat
Judges 16:15 And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart …
2 Samuel 13:26-28 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray you, let my brother Amnon go with …
Psalm 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips …
Psalm 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in …
Daniel 11:27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they …
Luke 11:37 And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee sought him to dine with him: …
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
speak
Proverbs 9:7,8 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes …
Proverbs 26:4,5 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like to him…
Isaiah 36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's …
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast you your pearls …
Acts 13:45,46 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, …
Acts 28:25-28 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that …
he
Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: …
John 8:52 Then said the Jews to him, Now we know that you have a devil. Abraham …
John 9:30-34,40 The man answered and said to them, Why herein is a marvelous thing, …
John 10:20 And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why hear you him?
Acts 17:18,32 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, …
1 Corinthians 1:21-24 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God…
1 Corinthians 4:10-13 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are …
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
remove
Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
Deuteronomy 19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old …
Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people …
Job 24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
landmark
Job 6:27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
Job 22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have …
Job 24:3,9 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's …
Job 31:21-23 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my …
Psalm 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly …
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus said the LORD; Execute you judgment and righteousness, and deliver …
Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor…
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To …
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Proverbs 2:2-6 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding…
Proverbs 5:1,2 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding…
Proverbs 22:17 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your …
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you …
Matthew 13:52 Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed …
James 1:21-25 Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and …
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
Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
Proverbs 4:1 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know …
Matthew 9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on …
John 21:5 Then Jesus said to them, Children, have you any meat? They answered him, No.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. …
if
Proverbs 23:24,25 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets …
Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish …
Proverbs 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 29:3 Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that keeps company …
1 Thessalonians 2:19,20 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even …
1 Thessalonians 3:8,9 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord…
2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth, …
3 John 1:3,4 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brothers came and testified of the …
even mine
Jeremiah 32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them …
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God in the middle of you is mighty; he will save, he …
Luke 15:23,24,32 And bring here the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry…
John 15:11 These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, …
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
not
Proverbs 3:31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 24:1 Be not you envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Psalm 37:1-3 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against …
Psalm 73:3-7 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…
be thou
Proverbs 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and …
Proverbs 28:14 Happy is the man that fears always: but he that hardens his heart …
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding …
Psalm 112:1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …
Ecclesiastes 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers …
Ecclesiastes 12:13,14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep …
Acts 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and …
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
surely
Psalm 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts …
Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received …
Romans 6:21,22 What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? …
end or reward
Proverbs 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found …
Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.
thine
Psalm 9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the …
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts …
Philippians 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing …
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
not
Proverbs 23:29-35 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? …
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived …
Proverbs 28:7 Whoever keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of …
Proverbs 31:6,7 Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those …
Isaiah 5:11,22 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow …
Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating …
Matthew 24:49 And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink …
Luke 15:13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and …
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, …
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will …
flesh
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
the drunkard
Proverbs 21:17 He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and …
Deuteronomy 21:20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn …
Isaiah 28:1-3 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious …
Joel 1:5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, …
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that …
1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, …
Galatians 5:21 Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the …
Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory …
drowsiness
Proverbs 6:9-11 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep…
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man …
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
hearken
Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the …
Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey …
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all …
Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses …
Ephesians 6:1,2 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right…
despise
Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Leviticus 19:3 You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my …
Matthew 15:4-6 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He …
John 19:26,27 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, …
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
buy
Proverbs 2:2-4 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding…
Proverbs 4:5-7 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from …
Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish …
Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding …
Proverbs 17:16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing …
Job 28:12-19 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding…
Psalm 119:72,127 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver…
Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has …
Matthew 13:44,46 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to treasure hid in a field; …
Philippians 3:7,8 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ…
Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be …
sell
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and …
Acts 20:23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that bonds …
Hebrews 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures …
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of …
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
and she
Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
1 Chronicles 4:9,10 And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother called …
Luke 1:31-33,40-47,58 And, behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, …
Luke 11:27,28 And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman of …
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
my son
Proverbs 23:15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
give
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with …
Matthew 10:37,38 He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: …
Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, …
2 Corinthians 5:14,15 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that …
2 Corinthians 8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves …
Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted …
let
Proverbs 4:25-27 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you…
Psalm 107:43 Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand …
Psalm 119:2,9-11 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with …
Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he …
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well …
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
Proverbs 2:16-19 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which …
Proverbs 7:12,22-27 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)…
Proverbs 9:18 But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are …
Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of …
Judges 16:14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines …
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares …
Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see where you have not …
increaseth
Numbers 25:1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit prostitution …
Hosea 4:11 Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the heart.
1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and …
Revelation 17:1,2 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, …
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
who hath woe
Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness …
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived …
1 Samuel 25:36,37 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, …
2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk …
Isaiah 5:11,22 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow …
Isaiah 28:7,8 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are …
Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are …
Matthew 24:49,50 And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink …
Luke 12:45,46 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; …
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
redness
Genesis 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
at
Proverbs 5:11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
Isaiah 28:3,7,8 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet…
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their …
Exodus 7:5,6,12 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth …
Luke 16:25,26 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received …
Romans 6:21 What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? …
biteth
Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks an hedge, …
Jeremiah 8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which …
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into …
Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search …
an adder
Isaiah 59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that …
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
eyes
Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, …
and
Proverbs 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of …
Psalm 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Daniel 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of …
Hosea 7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles …
Jude 1:12,13 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, …
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 And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me …
1 Samuel 30:16,17 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad …
2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
1 Kings 16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against …
1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk …
Joel 1:5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, …
Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and …
Luke 17:27-29 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in …
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
1 Thessalonians 5:2-7 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …
midst
Exodus 15:8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, …
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
Proverbs 27:22 Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, …
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but …
Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised …
i felt it not
Ephesians 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, …
i will
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
Deuteronomy 29:19 And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that …
Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating …
Isaiah 56:12 Come you, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves …
1 Corinthians 15:32-34 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, …
2 Peter 2:22 But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog …
