Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider
diligently what
is before thee :
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou
considerest
diligently that
which
`
is '
before thee ,
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be
a man given
to
appetite.
And thou
hast
put a knife to thy throat, If thou `art'
a man of
appetite.
Be
not
desirous
of
his dainties :
for
they
are
deceitful
meat
.
Have
no
desire
to
his dainties ,
seeing
it
`is'
lying
food
.
Labour not to be
rich:
cease
from thine own wisdom
.
Labour not to make
wealth,
From thine own understanding
cease,
Dost
thou
cause
thine
eyes
to
fly
upon
it?
Then
it
is
not
.
Wilt
thou
set
thine
eyes
upon
that
which
is
not?
for riches
certainly
make
themselves
wings ;
they
fly
away
as an eagle toward
heaven
.
For wealth
maketh
to
itself
wings ,
As an eagle it
flieth
to
the
heavens
.
Eat thou
not the bread of him
that
hath
an evil eye, neither
desire thou
his dainty
meats:
Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And
have
no
desire to
his dainties,
For as he thinketh
in his heart
, so is he :
Eat and drink, saith he to thee ;
but
his heart is not with thee.
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.
The
morsel which
thou hast eaten shalt
thou vomit up, and lose
thy sweet
words.
Thy
morsel thou hast eaten thou dost
vomit up, And hast
marred
thy words that
`are'
sweet
.
Speak
not
in the ears of a fool :
for he will
despise
the wisdom of thy words.
In the ears of a fool speak
not,
For he treadeth
on
the wisdom of thy words.
Remove not the
old
landmark;
and enter
not
into the
fields of the fatherless :
Remove not a
border
of
olden
times,
And into fields of the fatherless enter
not,
For their redeemer is mighty;
he shall
plead their cause with thee.
For their Redeemer `
is '
strong,
He doth
plead their cause with thee.
Apply
thine
heart
unto
instruction, and thine ears
to the
words
of knowledge.
Bring
in
to
instruction thy
heart
, And thine ear
to sayings
of knowledge.
Withhold not correction
from the
child:
for
if
thou beatest
him with the
rod ,
he shall
not die
.
Withhold not from a
youth
chastisement,
When
thou smitest
him with a
rod he dieth
not.
Thou shalt
beat
him
with the
rod, and shalt
deliver
his soul from hell
.
Thou with a
rod smitest
him
, And his soul from Sheol
thou
deliverest
.
My son, if thine
heart be
wise, my heart shall
rejoice
, even mine .
My son, if thy
heart hath
been
wise, My heart rejoiceth
, even mine ,
Yea,
my reins shall
rejoice,
when thy lips speak right
things
.
And
my reins exult
when thy lips speak uprightly
.
Let not thine
heart envy
sinners :
but be
thou
in the fear of the
LORD
all the day long
.
Let not thy
heart be
envious
at
sinners ,
But --
in the fear of Jehovah
all the day.
For surely
there is an
end;
and
thine
expectation
shall
not be
cut off.
For ,
is
there a
posterity?
Then
thy
hope
is not cut off.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide
thine
heart
in the way .
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make
happy
in the way thy
heart,
Be not among winebibbers;
among riotous
eaters
of flesh :
Be not thou
among quaffers
of
wine,
Among gluttonous
ones
of flesh ,
For the drunkard
and the
glutton shall
come
to
poverty:
and drowsiness shall
clothe
a
man
with rags.
For the quaffer
and glutton become
poor,
And drowsiness clotheth
with rags.
Hearken unto
thy father that
begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is
old.
Hearken to
thy father ,
who
begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath
become
old.
Buy
the
truth, and sell it
not ;
also
wisdom, and instruction, and understanding .
Truth buy
, and sell not ,
Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding ,
The father of the righteous shall
greatly rejoice:
and
he
that
begetteth
a
wise
child
shall
have
joy
of him.
The father of the righteous rejoiceth
greatly ,
The
begetter
of the
wise
rejoiceth
in
him.
Thy father and thy mother shall
be
glad
, and
she that bare thee shall
rejoice
.
Rejoice
doth
thy father and thy mother, Yea,
she that bare thee is
joyful
.
My son, give
me
thine
heart, and let thine eyes observe
my ways.
Give,
my son, thy
heart to
me
, And let thine eyes watch
my ways.
For a whore
is a deep ditch ;
and a strange woman is a narrow
pit.
For a harlot
`
is '
a deep ditch ,
And a strange woman `
is '
a strait
pit.
She also lieth in wait as
for
a
prey
, and increaseth
the transgressors
among men.
She also ,
as
catching
prey,
lieth in wait, And the treacherous
among men she
increaseth
.
Who hath woe
? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling
? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Who hath wo
? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint
? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
They
that
tarry
long
at
the wine ;
they
that
go
to seek
mixed wine.
Those
tarrying
by
the wine ,
Those
going
in
to search
out
mixed wine.
Look
not thou
upon
the
wine when it is
red, when it giveth his
colour
in the cup, when
it moveth
itself
aright
.
See
not wine when it showeth
itself
red, When it giveth in the cup its
colour
, It goeth
up
and
down
through
the
upright
.
At
the
last
it
biteth
like
a serpent, and stingeth like
an
adder
.
Its
latter
end
--
as
a serpent it
biteth
, And as
a
basilisk
it
stingeth.
Thine eyes shall
behold
strange women, and thine
heart shall
utter
perverse things.
Thine eyes see
strange women, And thy
heart speaketh
perverse things.
Yea,
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.
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 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 .
`
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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