Proverbs 23:1
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Proverbs 23:1 in other translations
| BSB | When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you, |
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| WEB | When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; |
| ASV | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee; |
| YLT | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee, |
| DARBY | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee; |
| BBE | When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you; |
| Webster | When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: |
What does Proverbs 23:1 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Introduction
Sobriety in eating and drinking, especially at the tables of the great. Have no fellowship with the covetous. Remove not the ancient landmark. Children should receive due correction. Avoid the company of wine-bibbers. Obedience to parents. Avoid lewd connections. The effect of an unfeeling conscience. Verse 1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler - When invited to the table of thy betters, eat moderately. Do not appear as if half starved at home. Eat not of delicacies to which thou art not accustomed; they are deceitful meat; they please, but they do not profit. They are pleasant to the sight, the taste, and the smell; but they are injurious to health. These are prudential cautions; and should be carefully observed by all who would avoid the conduct of a clown, and desire to pass for a well-bred man.Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 23:1-3
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Proverbs 23:1 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 23:1
- Genesis 43:32-34
And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
- Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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Context
- Proverbs 23:1
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
- Proverbs 23:2
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23:1 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | CUANDO te sentares á comer con algún señor, considera bien lo que estuviere delante de ti; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Quand tu t’assieds pour manger le pain avec un gouverneur, considère bien celui qui est devant toi; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn du dich hinsetzest, um mit einem Herrscher zu speisen, so beachte wohl, wen du vor dir hast; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quando sederis ut comedas cum principe, diligenter attende quæ apposita sunt ante faciem tuam. |