Pr 23 (King James)

   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.

Pr 23 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [Quando sederis ut comedas cum principe,
diligenter attende quæ apposita sunt ante faciem tuam.
   ² Et statue cultrum in gutture tuo :
si tamen habes in potestate animam tuam.
   ³ Ne desideres de cibis ejus,
in quo est panis mendacii.
   ⁴ Noli laborare ut diteris,
sed prudentiæ tuæ pone modum.
   ⁵ Ne erigas oculos tuos ad opes quas non potes habere,
quia facient sibi pennas quasi aquilæ, et volabunt in cælum.
   ⁶ Ne comedas cum homine invido,
et ne desideres cibos ejus :
   ⁷ quoniam in similitudinem arioli et conjectoris
æstimat quod ignorat.
Comede et bibe, dicet tibi ;
et mens ejus non est tecum.
   ⁸ Cibos quos comederas evomes,
et perdes pulchros sermones tuos.
   ⁹ In auribus insipientium ne loquaris,
qui despicient doctrinam eloquii tui.
   ¹⁰ Ne attingas parvulorum terminos,
et agrum pupillorum ne introëas :
   ¹¹ propinquus enim illorum fortis est,
et ipse judicabit contra te causam illorum.]
   ¹² [Ingrediatur ad doctrinam cor tuum,
et aures tuæ ad verba scientiæ.
   ¹³ Noli subtrahere a puero disciplinam :
si enim percusseris eum virga, non morietur.
   ¹⁴ Tu virga percuties eum,
et animam ejus de inferno liberabis.
   ¹⁵ Fili mi, si sapiens fuerit animus tuus,
gaudebit tecum cor meum :
   ¹⁶ et exsultabunt renes mei,
cum locuta fuerint rectum labia tua.
   ¹⁷ Non æmuletur cor tuum peccatores,
sed in timore Domini esto tota die :
   ¹⁸ quia habebis spem in novissimo,
et præstolatio tua non auferetur.
   ¹⁹ Audi, fili mi, et esto sapiens,
et dirige in via animum tuum.
   ²⁰ Noli esse in conviviis potatorum,
nec in comessationibus eorum qui carnes ad vescendum conferunt :
   ²¹ quia vacantes potibus et dantes symbola consumentur,
et vestietur pannis dormitatio.
   ²² Audi patrem tuum, qui genuit te,
et ne contemnas cum senuerit mater tua.
   ²³ Veritatem eme, et noli vendere sapientiam,
et doctrinam, et intelligentiam.
   ²⁴ Exsultat gaudio pater justi ;
qui sapientem genuit, lætabitur in eo.
   ²⁵ Gaudeat pater tuus et mater tua,
et exsultet quæ genuit te.
   ²⁶ Præbe, fili mi, cor tuum mihi,
et oculi tui vias meas custodiant.
   ²⁷ Fovea enim profunda est meretrix,
et puteus angustus aliena.
   ²⁸ Insidiatur in via quasi latro,
et quos incautos viderit, interficiet.]
   ²⁹ [Cui væ ? cujus patri væ ?
cui rixæ ? cui foveæ ?
cui sine causa vulnera ? cui suffusio oculorum ?
   ³⁰ nonne his qui commorantur in vino,
et student calicibus epotandis ?
   ³¹ Ne intuearis vinum quando flavescit,
cum splenduerit in vitro color ejus :
ingreditur blande,
   ³² sed in novissimo mordebit ut coluber,
et sicut regulus venena diffundet.
   ³³ Oculi tui videbunt extraneas,
et cor tuum loquetur perversa.
   ³⁴ Et eris sicut dormiens in medio mari,
et quasi sopitus gubernator, amisso clavo.
   ³⁵ Et dices : Verberaverunt me, sed non dolui ;
traxerunt me, et ego non sensi.
Quando evigilabo, et rursus vina reperiam ?]