Proverbs 23:1-10

1 When you sit down to eat with someone important, keep in mind who he is.

2 If you have a big appetite, restrain yourself.

3 Don't be greedy for the fine food he serves; he may be trying to trick you.

4 Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich

5 Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle.

6 Don't eat at the table of a stingy person or be greedy for the fine food he serves.

7 "Come on and have some more," he says, but he doesn't mean it. What he thinks is what he really is.

8 You will vomit up what you have eaten, and all your flattery will be wasted.

9 Don't try to talk sense to a fool; he can't appreciate it.

10 Never move an old property line or take over land owned by orphans.

Proverbs 23:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 11

This chapter relates the false steps Solomon took, notwithstanding all his wisdom, in marrying strange wives, and worshipping other gods, 1Ki 11:1-8 upon which the Lord threatens him to rend the kingdom in his son's time, 1Ki 11:9-13 and he raised up adversaries against him, Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam, 1Ki 11:14-26 of which last an account is given, and of his being assured by Ahijah the prophet of his having ten of the tribes of Israel given to him; which Solomon having notice of sought to slay him, 1Ki 11:27-40 and the chapter is concluded with an account of Solomon's death and burial, 1Ki 11:41-43.

Footnotes

• [a]. keep . . . is; [or] notice carefully what is before you.