## Proverbs Chapter 23

###### Proverbs 23:1
[Proverbs 23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:1)

כִּֽי־תֵ֭שֵׁב לִלְח֣וֹם אֶת־מוֹשֵׁ֑ל בִּ֥ין תָּ֝בִ֗ין אֶת־אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler consider diligently what is before thee:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When you sit down to dine with a ruler, know well what is before you [(i.e., whether he is parsimonious or generous)].


###### Proverbs 23:2
[Proverbs 23:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:2)

וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ שַׂכִּ֣ין בְּלֹעֶ֑ךָ אִם־בַּ֖עַל נֶ֣פֶשׁ אָֽתָּה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And "put a knife to your cheek" if you hunger [i.e., If you see that he is niggardly, restrain yourself and do not eat with him].


###### Proverbs 23:3
[Proverbs 23:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:3)

אַל־תִּ֭תְאָו לְמַטְעַמּוֹתָ֑יו וְ֝ה֗וּא לֶ֣חֶם כְּזָבִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not lust for his delicacies, for it is "deceitful" bread [i.e., not freely given.]


###### Proverbs 23:4
[Proverbs 23:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:4)

אַל־תִּיגַ֥ע לְֽהַעֲשִׁ֑יר מִֽבִּינָתְךָ֥ חֲדָֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Do not toil to be rich: because thou hast understanding, forbear.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not weary yourself to grow rich [i.e., to amass "bundles" of learning]; forbear from your own understanding.


###### Proverbs 23:5
[Proverbs 23:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:5)

(התעוף) [הֲתָ֤עִיף]־עֵינֶ֥יךָ בּ֗וֹ וְֽאֵ֫ינֶ֥נּוּ כִּ֤י עָשֹׂ֣ה יַעֲשֶׂה־לּ֣וֹ כְנָפַ֑יִם כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר (ועיף) [יָע֥וּף] הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Wilt thou set thy eyes upon it? it is already gone: for riches suddenly make themselves wings; they fly away like an eagle towards the sky.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Should you blink your eyes upon it [(such "undigested" learning)], it is no longer there. For it makes wings for itself like an eagle and flies heavenwards.


###### Proverbs 23:6
[Proverbs 23:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:6)

אַל־תִּלְחַ֗ם אֶת־לֶ֭חֶם רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְאַל־תִּ֝תְאָ֗ו לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainties.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not eat bread of the miserly, and do not lust for his delicacies.


###### Proverbs 23:7
[Proverbs 23:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:7)

כִּ֤י**׀** כְּמ֥וֹ שָׁעַ֥ר בְּנַפְשׁ֗וֹ כֶּ֫ן־ה֥וּא אֱכ֣וֹל וּ֭שְׁתֵה יֹ֣אמַר לָ֑ךְ וְ֝לִבּ֗וֹ בַּל־עִמָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For as one that calculates in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For like gall poured into his soul, so is this [(your eating of his bread)]. "Eat and drink," he will tell you, and his heart will not be with you.


###### Proverbs 23:8
[Proverbs 23:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:8)

פִּֽתְּךָ־אָכַ֥לְתָּ תְקִיאֶ֑נָּה וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ הַנְּעִימִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The loaf that you have eaten you will vomit up [(out of shame)], and you will have wasted your words of ingratiation.


###### Proverbs 23:9
[Proverbs 23:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:9)

בְּאׇזְנֵ֣י כְ֭סִיל אַל־תְּדַבֵּ֑ר כִּי־יָ֝ב֗וּז לְשֵׂ֣כֶל מִלֶּֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Do not speak in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Speak not in the ears of a fool, for he will shame the wisdom of your words.


###### Proverbs 23:10
[Proverbs 23:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:10)

אַל־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם וּבִשְׂדֵ֥י יְ֝תוֹמִ֗ים אַל־תָּבֹֽא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Do not remove the old landmark; and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not move back the long-standing boundary marker, and do not enter the orphans' fields [i.e., do not take their allotted portion of the grain].


###### Proverbs 23:11
[Proverbs 23:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:11)

כִּֽי־גֹאֲלָ֥ם חָזָ֑ק הֽוּא־יָרִ֖יב אֶת־רִיבָ֣ם אִתָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
for their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For their Redeemer is strong, and He will quarrel their quarrel with you.


###### Proverbs 23:12
[Proverbs 23:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:12)

הָבִ֣יאָה לַמּוּסָ֣ר לִבֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝אׇזְנֶ֗ךָ לְאִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Render up your heart for chastisement, and your ears for words of wisdom.


###### Proverbs 23:13
[Proverbs 23:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:13)

אַל־תִּמְנַ֣ע מִנַּ֣עַר מוּסָ֑ר כִּֽי־תַכֶּ֥נּוּ בַ֝שֵּׁ֗בֶט לֹ֣א יָמֽוּת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Do not withhold correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he will not die.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not withhold chastisement from the youth. If you strike him with the rod, he will not die.


###### Proverbs 23:14
[Proverbs 23:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:14)

אַ֭תָּה בַּשֵּׁ֣בֶט תַּכֶּ֑נּוּ וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹ מִשְּׁא֥וֹל תַּצִּֽיל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from She᾽ol.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You will strike him with the rod, and you will rescue his soul from Sheol.


###### Proverbs 23:15
[Proverbs 23:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:15)

בְּ֭נִי אִם־חָכַ֣ם לִבֶּ֑ךָ יִשְׂמַ֖ח לִבִּ֣י גַם־אָֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My son, if thy heart is wise, my heart too shall rejoice:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My son, when your heart becomes wise, then my heart, too, will rejoice.


###### Proverbs 23:16
[Proverbs 23:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:16)

וְתַעְלֹ֥זְנָה כִלְיוֹתָ֑י בְּדַבֵּ֥ר שְׂ֝פָתֶ֗יךָ מֵישָׁרִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And my reins will rejoice when your lips speak righteous words [(in consequence of your heart's growing wise)].


###### Proverbs 23:17
[Proverbs 23:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:17)

אַל־יְקַנֵּ֣א לִ֭בְּךָ בַּחַטָּאִ֑ים כִּ֥י אִם־בְּיִרְאַת־יְ֝הֹוָ֗ה כׇּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Let your heart not envy [the prosperity of] sinners [and incline you to emulate their ways], but [preoccupy yourself] with fear of the L-rd all the day.


###### Proverbs 23:18
[Proverbs 23:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:18)

כִּ֭י אִם־יֵ֣שׁ אַחֲרִ֑ית וְ֝תִקְוָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א תִכָּרֵֽת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For surely there is a future; and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For thereby it shall endure and your hope will not be cut off.


###### Proverbs 23:19
[Proverbs 23:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:19)

שְׁמַע־אַתָּ֣ה בְנִ֣י וַחֲכָ֑ם וְאַשֵּׁ֖ר בַּדֶּ֣רֶךְ לִבֶּֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Hear, my son, and you will grow wise, and [then] you may walk in the way of your heart [without injury].


###### Proverbs 23:20
[Proverbs 23:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:20)

אַל־תְּהִ֥י בְסֹֽבְאֵי־יָ֑יִן בְּזֹלְלֵ֖י בָשָׂ֣ר לָֽמוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not be among the guzzlers of wine, among the gorgers of meat for themselves.


###### Proverbs 23:21
[Proverbs 23:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:21)

כִּֽי־סֹבֵ֣א וְ֭זוֹלֵל יִוָּרֵ֑שׁ וּ֝קְרָעִ֗ים תַּלְבִּ֥ישׁ נוּמָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the guzzler and the gorger will be poor, and slumber will clothe [you] in tatters.


###### Proverbs 23:22
[Proverbs 23:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:22)

שְׁמַ֣ע לְ֭אָבִיךָ זֶ֣ה יְלָדֶ֑ךָ וְאַל־תָּ֝ב֗וּז כִּֽי־זָקְנָ֥ה אִמֶּֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hearken to thy father who begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Give ear to your father, who begot you, and do not scorn your mother's [words], though she be old.


###### Proverbs 23:23
[Proverbs 23:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:23)

אֱמֶ֣ת קְ֭נֵה וְאַל־תִּמְכֹּ֑ר חׇכְמָ֖ה וּמוּסָ֣ר וּבִינָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Purchase truth [if you must pay for it], but [even if you have paid for it] do not sell it, [(but teach it gratis)] — wisdom, reproof, and understanding.


###### Proverbs 23:24
[Proverbs 23:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:24)

(גול) [גִּ֣יל] יָ֭גִיל אֲבִ֣י צַדִּ֑יק (יולד) [וְיוֹלֵ֥ד] חָ֝כָ֗ם (וישמח) [יִשְׂמַח־]בּֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he who begets a wise child shall have joy of him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The father of the righteous one will rejoice. He who engenders wisdom [in the heart of another] will rejoice in him.


###### Proverbs 23:25
[Proverbs 23:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:25)

יִֽשְׂמַח־אָבִ֥יךָ וְאִמֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝תָגֵ֗ל יוֹלַדְתֶּֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your father and mother will rejoice, and he who engenders [wisdom in your heart] will rejoice.


###### Proverbs 23:26
[Proverbs 23:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:26)

תְּנָה־בְנִ֣י לִבְּךָ֣ לִ֑י וְ֝עֵינֶ֗יךָ דְּרָכַ֥י (תרצנה) [תִּצֹּֽרְנָה]׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Give, my son, your heart to me, and your eyes will heed my paths.


###### Proverbs 23:27
[Proverbs 23:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:27)

כִּֽי־שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲמֻקָּ֣ה זוֹנָ֑ה וּבְאֵ֥ר צָ֝רָ֗ה נׇכְרִיָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the harlot is a deep pit, and the strange woman is a strait well.


###### Proverbs 23:28
[Proverbs 23:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:28)

אַף־הִ֭יא כְּחֶ֣תֶף תֶּאֱרֹ֑ב וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים בְּאָדָ֥ם תּוֹסִֽף׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
She also lies in wait like a robber, and increases the transgressors among men.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
She, too, lurks [to snatch] suddenly and multiplies traitors among men [i.e., heretics among Israel].


###### Proverbs 23:29
[Proverbs 23:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:29)

לְמִ֨י א֥וֹי לְמִ֪י אֲב֡וֹי לְמִ֤י (מדונים) [מִדְיָנִ֨ים**׀**] לְמִ֥י שִׂ֗יחַ לְ֭מִי פְּצָעִ֣ים חִנָּ֑ם לְ֝מִ֗י חַכְלִל֥וּת עֵינָֽיִם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who cries, Woe? who cries, Alas? who has quarrels? who has complaints? who has causeless injuries? who has redness of eyes?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who cries "Oh!" Who cries "Woe!" One who is embattled [with men], one who talks [too much]. Who is wounded for naught? Whose eyes are bloodshot?


###### Proverbs 23:30
[Proverbs 23:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:30)

לַֽמְאַחֲרִ֥ים עַל־הַיָּ֑יִן לַ֝בָּאִ֗ים לַחְקֹ֥ר מִמְסָֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They who tarry long at the wine; they who go to seek mixed wine.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Those who sit late over wine, those who make inquiries over [choice] blends.


###### Proverbs 23:31
[Proverbs 23:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:31)

אַל־תֵּ֥רֶא יַּיִן֮ כִּ֤י יִתְאַ֫דָּ֥ם כִּֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן (בכיס) [בַּכּ֣וֹס] עֵינ֑וֹ יִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ךְ בְּמֵֽישָׁרִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not look at the redness of wine; for to him who fixes his eye on the goblet, all paths are just [i.e., all transgressions seem "straight" to him].


###### Proverbs 23:32
[Proverbs 23:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:32)

אַ֭חֲרִיתוֹ כְּנָחָ֣שׁ יִשָּׁ֑ךְ וּֽכְצִפְעֹנִ֥י יַפְרִֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
at the last it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
His end is as that [of him] bitten by a snake, stung by a serpent.


###### Proverbs 23:33
[Proverbs 23:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:33)

עֵ֭ינֶיךָ יִרְא֣וּ זָר֑וֹת וְ֝לִבְּךָ֗ יְדַבֵּ֥ר תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse words.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(If you become drunk)] your eyes will ogle strange women [i.e., harlots], and your heart will speak contraries.


###### Proverbs 23:34
[Proverbs 23:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:34)

וְ֭הָיִיתָ כְּשֹׁכֵ֣ב בְּלֶב־יָ֑ם וּ֝כְשֹׁכֵ֗ב בְּרֹ֣אשׁ חִבֵּֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Yea, thou shalt be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or like one who lies upon the top of a mast.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And you will be [unhinged] like one lying in the heart of the sea, like one lying on the top of the mast.


###### Proverbs 23:35
[Proverbs 23:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/23:35)

הִכּ֥וּנִי בַל־חָלִיתִי֮ הֲלָמ֗וּנִי בַּל־יָ֫דָ֥עְתִּי מָתַ֥י אָקִ֑יץ א֝וֹסִ֗יף אֲבַקְשֶׁ֥נּוּ עֽוֹד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They have struck me, but I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(When you start coming out of your stupor you will say:) "They smote me, but I did not sicken; they beat me, but I did not know it. When I wake up, I will ask for more and more."