New Living Translation | English Standard Version |
1While dining with a ruler, pay attention to what is put before you. | 1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, |
2If you are a big eater, put a knife to your throat; | 2and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. |
3don’t desire all the delicacies, for he might be trying to trick you. | 3Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. |
4Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit. | 4Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. |
5In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle. | 5When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. |
6Don’t eat with people who are stingy; don’t desire their delicacies. | 6Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, |
7They are always thinking about how much it costs. “Eat and drink,” they say, but they don’t mean it. | 7for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. |
8You will throw up what little you’ve eaten, and your compliments will be wasted. | 8You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words. |
9Don’t waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice. | 9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words. |
10Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don’t take the land of defenseless orphans. | 10Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, |
11For their Redeemer is strong; he himself will bring their charges against you. | 11for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you. |
12Commit yourself to instruction; listen carefully to words of knowledge. | 12Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge. |
13Don’t fail to discipline your children. The rod of punishment won’t kill them. | 13Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. |
14Physical discipline may well save them from death. | 14If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol. |
15My child, if your heart is wise, my own heart will rejoice! | 15My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. |
16Everything in me will celebrate when you speak what is right. | 16My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right. |
17Don’t envy sinners, but always continue to fear the LORD. | 17Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day. |
18You will be rewarded for this; your hope will not be disappointed. | 18Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. |
19My child, listen and be wise: Keep your heart on the right course. | 19Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. |
20Do not carouse with drunkards or feast with gluttons, | 20Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, |
21for they are on their way to poverty, and too much sleep clothes them in rags. | 21for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags. |
22Listen to your father, who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. | 22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. |
23Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment. | 23Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. |
24The father of godly children has cause for joy. What a pleasure to have children who are wise. | 24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. |
25So give your father and mother joy! May she who gave you birth be happy. | 25Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice. |
26O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes take delight in following my ways. | 26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. |
27A prostitute is a dangerous trap; a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well. | 27For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. |
28She hides and waits like a robber, eager to make more men unfaithful. | 28She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind. |
29Who has anguish? Who has sorrow? Who is always fighting? Who is always complaining? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? | 29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? |
30It is the one who spends long hours in the taverns, trying out new drinks. | 30Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. |
31Don’t gaze at the wine, seeing how red it is, how it sparkles in the cup, how smoothly it goes down. | 31Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. |
32For in the end it bites like a poisonous snake; it stings like a viper. | 32In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. |
33You will see hallucinations, and you will say crazy things. | 33Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. |
34You will stagger like a sailor tossed at sea, clinging to a swaying mast. | 34You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. |
35And you will say, “They hit me, but I didn’t feel it. I didn’t even know it when they beat me up. When will I wake up so I can look for another drink?” | 35“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.” |
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