19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
21For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 23:19-21
Guarded Desire, Wise Discipline, the Fear of the LORD, and Warnings Against Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Drunkenness
The chapter moves through warnings about appetite and wealth, discernment at corrupt tables, protection of boundaries and the fatherless, heart-applied instruction and discipline, parental joy, fear of the LORD over envy, warnings against gluttony and drunkenness, honoring parents, buying truth, sexual purity, and a final extended portrait of wine's deceptive destruction.
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Verse 19
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Listenשְׁמַע־H8085Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular. . .אַתָּ֣הH859Pronoun - second person masculine singularmy sonבְנִ֣יH1121Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularand be wiseוַחֲכָ֑םH2449Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singularand guideוְאַשֵּׁ֖רH833Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singularyour heartלִבֶּֽךָ׃H3820Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularon the right courseבַּדֶּ֣רֶךְH1870Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Verse 20
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Do notאַל־H408Adverbjoinתְּהִ֥יH1961Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singularthose who drink too muchבְסֹֽבְאֵי־H5433Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural constructwineיָ֑יִןH3196Noun - masculine singularor gorgeבְּזֹלֲלֵ֖יH2151Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural constructthemselves on meatבָשָׂ֣רH1320Noun - masculine singular
Verse 21
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Forכִּי־H3588Conjunctionthe drunkardסֹבֵ֣אH5433Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularand the gluttonוְ֭זוֹלֵלH2151Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularwill come to povertyיִוָּרֵ֑שׁH3423Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularand drowsinessנוּמָֽה׃H5124Noun - feminine singularwill clothe themתַּלְבִּ֥ישׁH3847Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person feminine singularin ragsוּ֝קְרָעִ֗יםH7168Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural