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Proverbs 23:1-8 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is [set] before you; | When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, | When you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you, | |
| 2 | For you will put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite. | and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. | and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. | |
| 3 | Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food [offered to you with questionable motives]. | Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. | Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive. | |
| 4 | Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth; Cease from your own understanding of it. | Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. | Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. | |
| 5 | When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies to the heavens. | When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. | Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. | |
| 6 | Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies; | Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, | Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies; | |
| 7 | For as he thinks in his heart, so is he [in behavior—one who manipulates]. He says to you, “Eat and drink,” Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost]. | for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. | for he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. | |
| 8 | The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, And you will waste your compliments. | You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words. | You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments. | |
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