Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face:
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When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
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and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
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Do not desire the ruler's delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
4 Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence
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Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist
5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
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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 Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
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Do not eat the bread of the stingy; do not desire their delicacies;
7 Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
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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 The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt lose thy beautiful words.
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You will vomit up the little you have eaten, and you will waste your pleasant words.
9 Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
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Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, who will only despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
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Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,
11 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
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for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
12 Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.
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Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike 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 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell
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If you beat them with the rod, you will save their lives from Sheol
15 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
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My child, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
16 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
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My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17 Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
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Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the Lord.
18 Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
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Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way
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Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way
20 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
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Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
21 Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags
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for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags
22 Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
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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 be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
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Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
26 My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
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My child, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
27 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
28 She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
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She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
29 Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
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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 Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.
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Those who linger late over wine, those who keep trying mixed wines.
31 Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
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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 in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
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At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
33 Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
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Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
34 And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.
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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 have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?
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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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