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