Proverbs 23

^{1 a} Eat with sobrietie.

^{2 b} Bridel thine appetite, as it were by force and violence.

^{3 c} For oft times the riche, when they bid their inferiours to their tables, it is not for the loue they beare them, but for their owne secret purposes.

^{4 d} Bestowe not the giftes that God hathe giuen thee, to get wordelie riches.

^{6 e} That is, couetous, as contrarie a good eye is taken for liberal, as {Chap. 22, 9}.

^{8 f} He wil not cease, til he hathe done thee some harme, & his flattering wordes shal come to no vse.

^{14 g} That is from destruction.

^{18 h} The prosperitie of the wicked shal not continue.

^{19 i} In the obseruation of Gods commandements.

^{20 /} Ebr, wine bibers.

^{20 /} Ebr deuourers of flesh.

^{23 k} Spare no cost for truesths sake, nether departe from it for anie gaine.

^{25 i} Giue thy self wholly to wisdome.

^{28 m} Sh seduceth manie, & causeth them to offend God.

^{30 n} Which by art make wine stronger, and more pleasant.

^{33 o} That is, dronkennes shal bring thee to whoredome.

^{34 p} In suche great danger shalt thou be.

^{35 q} Thogh dronkennes make them more insensible then beasts, yet can they not refraine.