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Proverbs 23:1-8 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | WHEN you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently 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 | That you may not put poison in your mouth. And if you are a man given to excessive 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 | Be not desirous of his food; for his bread is bread of deceit. | Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. | Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive. | |
| 4 | Do not quarrel with a rich man; but keep away from him wisely. | 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 | For if you should fix your eye on him, you cannot see him; for he makes for himself wings like an eagle and flies away toward the sky. | 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 with a hypocrite, neither desire his food; | 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 he is like him that swallows pitch; in like manner you will eat and drink with him, but his heart is not with you. | 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 lose your sweet words. | 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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