Proverbs 23:1
23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, {a} consider
     diligently what [is] before thee:

     (a) Eat with sobriety.

Proverbs 23:2
23:2 {b} And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [art] a man
     given to appetite.

     (b) Bridle your appetite, as if by force and violence.

Proverbs 23:3
23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: {c} for they [are]
     deceitful food.

     (c) For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to
         their tables, it is not for the love they bear them,
         but for their own secret purposes.

Proverbs 23:4
23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thy own {d} wisdom.

     (d) Bestow not the gifts that God has given you, to get
         worldly riches.

Proverbs 23:6
23:6 Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an {e} evil eye,
     neither desire thou his delicacies:

     (e) That is, covetous, as contrary a good eye is taken for
         liberal as in Proverbs 22:9.

Proverbs 23:8
23:8 The {f} morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
     and lose thy sweet words.

     (f) He will not cease till he has done you some harm, and
         his flattering words will come to no use.

Proverbs 23:14
23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his
      soul from {g} hell.

      (g) That is, from destruction.

Proverbs 23:18
23:18 For surely there is an end; {h} and thy expectation shall
      not be cut off.

      (h) The prosperity of the wicked will not continue.

Proverbs 23:19
23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the
      {i} way.

      (i) In the observation of God's commandments.

Proverbs 23:23
23:23 Buy {k} the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and
      instruction, and understanding.

      (k) Spare no cost for truths sake, neither depart from it
          for any gain.

Proverbs 23:26
23:26 My son, give me {l} thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my
      ways.

      (l) Give yourself wholly to wisdom.

Proverbs 23:28
23:28 She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, {m} and increaseth
      the transgressors among men.

      (m) She seduces many and causes them to offend God.

Proverbs 23:30
23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go {n} to seek
      mixed wine.

      (n) Who by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.

Proverbs 23:33
23:33 Thy {o} eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart
      shall utter perverse things.

      (o) That is, drunkenness will bring you to whoredom.

Proverbs 23:34
23:34 And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of
      the {p} sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

      (p) In such great danger will you be.

Proverbs 23:35
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 {q} seek it yet again.

      (q) Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then
          beasts, yet they can not refrain.