Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 If thou sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before thee:
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When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
2 and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such : but if thou art very insatiable,
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and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.
3 desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
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Do not desire the ruler's delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
4 If thou art poor, measure not thyself with a rich man; but refrain thyself in thy wisdom.
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Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist
5 If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
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When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
6 Sup not with an envious man, neither desire thou his meats:
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Do not eat the bread of the stingy; do not desire their delicacies;
7 so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him:
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for like a hair in the throat, so are they. "Eat and drink!" they say to you; but they do not mean it.
8 for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.
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You will vomit up the little you have eaten, and you will waste your pleasant words.
9 Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words.
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Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, who will only despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
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Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,
11 for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.
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for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
12 Apply thine heart to instruction, and prepare thine ears for words of discretion.
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Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
13 Refrain not from chastening a child; for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
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Do not withhold discipline from your children; if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.
14 For thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from death.
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If you beat them with the rod, you will save their lives from Sheol
15 Son, if thy heart be wise, thou shalt also gladden my heart;
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My child, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
16 and thy lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.
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My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day.
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Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the Lord.
18 For if thou shouldest keep these things, thou shalt have posterity; and thine hope shall not be removed.
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Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Hear, son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of thine heart.
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Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way
20 Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:
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Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
21 for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
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for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags
22 Hearken, son, to thy father which begot thee, and despise not because she is grown old.
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Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 A righteous father brings up well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.
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The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
25 Let thy father and thy mother rejoice over thee, and let her that bore thee be glad.
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Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
26 son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
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My child, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
27 For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.
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For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
28 For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.
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She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
29 Who woe? who trouble? who quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
30 Are not those of them that stay long at wine? not of them that haunt where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse openly.
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Those who linger late over wine, those who keep trying mixed wines.
31 For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, thou shalt afterwards go more naked than a pestle.
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Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
32 But at last stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
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At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
33 Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.
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Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
34 And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.
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You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
35 And thou shalt say, They smote me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
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"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 will seek another drink."
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