箴23:1 你若与官长坐席，要留意在你面前的是谁。
箴23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
箴23:2 你若是贪食的，就当拿刀放在喉咙上。
箴23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
箴23:3 不可贪恋他的美食，因为是哄人的食物。
箴23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
箴23:4 不要劳碌求富，休仗自己的聪明。
箴23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
箴23:5 你岂要定睛在虚无的钱财上吗？因钱财必长翅膀，如鹰向天飞去。
箴23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
箴23:6 不要吃恶眼人的饭，也不要贪他的美味。
箴23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
箴23:7 因为他心怎样思量，他为人就是怎样。他虽对你说：“请吃，请喝”，他的心却与你相背。
箴23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
箴23:8 你所吃的那点食物必吐出来；你所说的甘美言语也必落空。
箴23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
箴23:9 你不要说话给愚昧人听，因他必藐视你智慧的言语。
箴23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
箴23:10 不可挪移古时的地界，也不可侵入孤儿的田地。
箴23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
箴23:11 因他们的救赎主大有能力，他必向你为他们辨屈。
箴23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
箴23:12 你要留心领受训诲，侧耳听从知识的言语。
箴23:12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
箴23:13 不可不管教孩童，你用杖打他，他必不至于死。
箴23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
箴23:14 你要用杖打他，就可以救他的灵魂免下阴间。
箴23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
箴23:15 我儿，你心若存智慧，我的心也甚欢喜；
箴23:15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
箴23:16 你的嘴若说正直话，我的心肠也必快乐。
箴23:16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
箴23:17 你心中不要嫉妒罪人，只要终日敬畏耶和华。
箴23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
箴23:18 因为至终必有善报，你的指望也不至断绝。
箴23:18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
箴23:19 我儿，你当听，当存智慧，好在正道上引导你的心。
箴23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
箴23:20 好饮酒的，好吃肉的，不要与他们来往。
箴23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
箴23:21 因为好酒贪食的，必致贫穷；好睡觉的，必穿破烂衣服。
箴23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
箴23:22 你要听从生你的父亲；你母亲老了，也不可藐视她。
箴23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
箴23:23 你当买真理；就是智慧、训诲和聪明也都不可卖。
箴23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
箴23:24 义人的父亲，必大得快乐；人生智慧的儿子，必因他欢喜。
箴23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
箴23:25 你要使父母欢喜，使生你的快乐。
箴23:25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
箴23:26 我儿，要将你的心归我，你的眼目也要喜悦我的道路。
箴23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
箴23:27 妓女是深坑，外女是窄阱。
箴23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
箴23:28 她埋伏好像强盗，她使人中多有奸诈的。
箴23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
箴23:29 谁有祸患？谁有忧愁？谁有争斗？谁有哀叹（或作“怨言”）？谁无故受伤？谁眼目红赤？
箴23:29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
箴23:30 就是那流连饮酒，常去寻找调和酒的人。
箴23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
箴23:31 酒发红，在杯中闪烁，你不可观看，
箴23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
箴23:32 虽然下咽舒畅，终久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。
箴23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
箴23:33 你眼必看见异怪的事（“异怪的事”或作“淫妇”），你心必发出乖谬的话。
箴23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
箴23:34 你必像躺在海中，或像卧在桅杆上。
箴23:34 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.
箴23:35 你必说：“人打我，我却未受伤；人鞭打我，我竟不觉得。我几时清醒，我仍去寻酒。”
箴23:35 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.