Proverbs 23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Proverbs 23

1When you sit down to eat with an official,

observe carefully what is before you,

2and put a knife to your throat

if you have a big appetite.

3 delicacies,

for they are deceptive food.

4

“Eat and drink!” they say to you,

but they do not mean it.

8You will vomit up the little you have eaten,

and you will waste your pleasant words.

9 is strong;

he will plead their cause against you.

12 my ways.

27 is a narrow well.

28

35 “but I was not hurt;

they beat me, but I did not feel it.

When shall I awake?

I will seek another drink.”