Bible Lynx Logo

The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 23, Verse 26

View Previous Verses
25
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
King James Version
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
American Standard Version
My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
New English Translation
Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;
World English Bible
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in 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.
1
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.