New American Standard Bible 1995 | King James Bible |
1When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you, | 1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: |
2And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite. | 2And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. |
3Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food. | 3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. |
4Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it. | 4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. |
5When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens. | 5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. |
6Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies; | 6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: |
7For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you. | 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 vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments. | 8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. |
9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words. | 9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. |
10Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless, | 10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
11For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you. | 11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. |
12Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge. | 12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. |
13Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die. | 13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. |
14You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol. | 14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
15My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad; | 15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. |
16And my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right. | 16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. |
17Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the LORD always. | 17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. |
18Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off. | 18For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. |
19Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way. | 19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. |
20Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat; | 20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: |
21For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags. | 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. |
22Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. | 22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
23Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding. | 23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. |
24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him. | 24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. |
25Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you. | 25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. |
26Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes delight in my ways. | 26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. |
27For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well. | 27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
28Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men. | 28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. |
29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? | 29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? |
30Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine. | 30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. |
31Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly; | 31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. |
32At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper. | 32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
33Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things. | 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. |
34And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a 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. |
35"They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will seek 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. |
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