Proverbs 23:1-5 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, discern carefully what is before your face, 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 and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an 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 You should not mark out his delicacies, for it is bread of lies. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
4 Do not toil to become rich, cease from your own understanding. 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 Will you make your eyes fly onto it, and it is not there? For it certainly makes for itself wings like an eagle and flies away 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.
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