Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
When you
sit
down
to dine
with a ruler, consider
carefully
what
is set
before you
,
When thou
sittest
to eat
with a ruler, Thou
considerest
diligently
that
which
`
is '
before thee
,
and put a knife to your
throat if you
possess
a great
appetite.
And thou
hast
put a knife to thy
throat ,
If thou
`art'
a man
of
appetite.
Do
not
crave
his delicacies
, for
that
food
is deceptive
.
Have
no
desire
to
his dainties
, seeing
it
`
is '
lying
food
.
Do
not wear
yourself
out
to get
rich;
be
wise
enough
to restrain
yourself
.
Labour
not to make
wealth,
From
thine
own
understanding
cease,
Dost
thou
cause
thine
eyes
to fly
upon
it?
Then
it
is
not
.
When
you
glance
at
wealth,
it
disappears,
for it
makes
wings
for
itself and
flies
like
an eagle to the sky
.
For wealth
maketh
to
itself wings,
As
an eagle it
flieth
to the heavens
.
Do
not
eat the bread of a
stingy
man
, and do
not
crave
his delicacies;
Eat not
the bread of an
evil
eye
, And have
no
desire
to
his dainties,
for he is keeping
track
, inwardly
counting
the
cost.
“
Eat and drink, ”
he says
to you
, but
his heart is not with you
.
For as
he hath
thought
in
his
soul,
so
`
is '
he
, `
Eat and drink, '
saith
he to thee
, And
his heart `
is '
not with thee
.
You
will
vomit up what
little
you
have
eaten
and waste
your
pleasant
words.
Thy
morsel
thou
hast
eaten
thou
dost
vomit up ,
And hast
marred
thy
words that
`are'
sweet
.
Do
not
speak
to
a fool, for he will
despise
the wisdom of your
words.
In
the
ears
of
a fool speak
not
, For he treadeth
on
the wisdom of thy
words.
Do
not move
an
ancient
boundary
stone
or
encroach
on
the
fields of the fatherless,
Remove
not a
border
of
olden
times,
And
into
fields of the fatherless enter
not
,
for their Redeemer is strong ;
He will
take
up
their case
against
you
.
For their Redeemer `
is '
strong ,
He doth
plead
their cause
with
thee
.
Apply
your
heart
to instruction and your
ears
to words
of knowledge.
Bring
in
to instruction thy
heart,
And thine
ear
to sayings
of knowledge.
Do
not
withhold discipline
from a child;
although
you
strike
him with a rod ,
he will
not die
.
Withhold not
from a youth
chastisement,
When
thou
smitest
him with a rod he dieth
not.
Strike
him
with a rod, and you
will
deliver
his soul from Sheol.
Thou
with a rod smitest
him
, And his soul from Sheol thou
deliverest
.
My son, if your
heart is
wise, my own
heart will
indeed
rejoice.
My son, if thy
heart hath
been
wise, My heart rejoiceth,
even
mine,
My inmost
being
will
rejoice
when your
lips speak what
is
right
.
And
my reins
exult
when thy
lips speak uprightly
.
Do
not
let your
heart envy
sinners, but always
continue
in the fear of the LORD
.
Let not
thy
heart be
envious
at
sinners, But --
in the fear of Jehovah
all
the day
.
For surely
there
is a future,
and
your
hope will
not be
cut off.
For ,
is there
a posterity?
Then
thy
hope is
not cut off.
Listen
, my son, and be wise, and guide
your
heart
on
the right
course.
Hear
thou
, my son, and be wise, And make
happy
in
the way
thy
heart,
Do
not join
those
who
drink
too
much
wine or
gorge
themselves
on
meat.
Be
not thou
among
quaffers
of
wine ,
Among
gluttonous
ones
of
flesh,
For the drunkard
and the
glutton will
come
to
poverty
, and drowsiness will
clothe
them
in
rags.
For the quaffer
and glutton become
poor
, And drowsiness clotheth
with
rags.
Listen
to your
father who gave
you
life
, and do
not
despise your
mother when she is
old.
Hearken
to thy
father ,
who begat
thee
, And despise not
thy
mother when she hath
become
old.
Invest
in
truth and never
sell it—
in
wisdom and instruction and understanding .
Truth buy,
and sell not,
Wisdom ,
and instruction ,
and understanding ,
The father of a
righteous man
will
greatly rejoice
, and
he
who
fathers
a
wise son
will
delight
in him.
The father of the
righteous rejoiceth
greatly, The
begetter
of
the
wise rejoiceth
in him.
May
your
father and mother be
glad
, and
may
she who
gave
you
birth
rejoice!
Rejoice
doth
thy
father and thy
mother, Yea,
she that
bare
thee
is
joyful.
My son, give
me
your
heart, and let your
eyes delight
in
my ways.
Give,
my son, thy
heart to
me
, And let thine
eyes watch
my ways.
For a prostitute
is a deep pit
, and an
adulteress
is a narrow
well
.
For a harlot
`
is '
a deep ditch
, And a
strange
woman
`
is '
a strait
pit
.
Like
a
robber
she lies
in wait and multiplies
the faithless
among men.
She also,
as
catching
prey,
lieth
in wait ,
And the treacherous
among men she
increaseth
.
Who has
woe
? Who has
sorrow? Who has
contentions? Who has
complaints
? Who has
needless
wounds? Who has
bloodshot
eyes?
Who hath
wo
? who hath
sorrow? Who hath
contentions? who hath
plaint
? Who hath
wounds without
cause
? Who hath
redness
of
eyes?
Those who
linger
over
wine, who
go
to taste
mixed drinks
.
Those tarrying
by
the
wine, Those
going
in
to search
out
mixed wine
.
Do
not gaze
at
wine while
it is
red, when it sparkles
in the cup and goes
down smoothly
.
See
not wine when
it showeth
itself
red, When it giveth
in the cup its
colour,
It
goeth
up
and down through
the
upright
.
In
the
end it
bites
like
a snake
and stings
like
a viper
.
Its
latter
end --
as
a serpent
it
biteth,
And as
a basilisk
it
stingeth
.
Your
eyes will
see strange things
, and your
mind
will
utter
perversities
.
Thine
eyes see strange women
, And thy
heart
speaketh
perverse
things
.
You
will
be
like
one sleeping
on
the high
seas
or
lying on the top of a mast :
And
thou
hast
been
as
one lying
down
in
the heart
of
the
sea,
And
as
one
lying down
on the top of a mast .
“
They struck
me, but
I feel
no
pain!
They beat me, but
I did
not know
it!
When can
I wake
up
to
search
for
another
drink?”
`
They smote
me, I have
not
been
sick,
They beat me, I have
not known.
When I awake
--
I
seek
it
yet
again!'
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