New Living Translation | King James Bible |
1While dining with a ruler, pay attention to what is put before you. | 1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: |
2If you are a big eater, put a knife to your throat; | 2And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. |
3don’t desire all the delicacies, for he might be trying to trick you. | 3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. |
4Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit. | 4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. |
5In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle. | 5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. |
6Don’t eat with people who are stingy; don’t desire their delicacies. | 6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: |
7They are always thinking about how much it costs. “Eat and drink,” they say, but they don’t mean it. | 7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. |
8You will throw up what little you’ve eaten, and your compliments will be wasted. | 8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. |
9Don’t waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice. | 9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. |
10Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don’t take the land of defenseless orphans. | 10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
11For their Redeemer is strong; he himself will bring their charges against you. | 11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. |
12Commit yourself to instruction; listen carefully to words of knowledge. | 12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. |
13Don’t fail to discipline your children. The rod of punishment won’t kill them. | 13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. |
14Physical discipline may well save them from death. | 14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
15My child, if your heart is wise, my own heart will rejoice! | 15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. |
16Everything in me will celebrate when you speak what is right. | 16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. |
17Don’t envy sinners, but always continue to fear the LORD. | 17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. |
18You will be rewarded for this; your hope will not be disappointed. | 18For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. |
19My child, listen and be wise: Keep your heart on the right course. | 19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. |
20Do not carouse with drunkards or feast with gluttons, | 20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: |
21for they are on their way to poverty, and too much sleep clothes them in rags. | 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. |
22Listen to your father, who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. | 22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
23Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment. | 23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. |
24The father of godly children has cause for joy. What a pleasure to have children who are wise. | 24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. |
25So give your father and mother joy! May she who gave you birth be happy. | 25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. |
26O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes take delight in following my ways. | 26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. |
27A prostitute is a dangerous trap; a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well. | 27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
28She hides and waits like a robber, eager to make more men unfaithful. | 28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. |
29Who has anguish? Who has sorrow? Who is always fighting? Who is always complaining? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? | 29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? |
30It is the one who spends long hours in the taverns, trying out new drinks. | 30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. |
31Don’t gaze at the wine, seeing how red it is, how it sparkles in the cup, how smoothly it goes down. | 31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. |
32For in the end it bites like a poisonous snake; it stings like a viper. | 32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
33You will see hallucinations, and you will say crazy things. | 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. |
34You will stagger like a sailor tossed at sea, clinging to a swaying mast. | 34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. |
35And you will say, “They hit me, but I didn’t feel it. I didn’t even know it when they beat me up. When will I wake up so I can look for another drink?” | 35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. |
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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