The Latin Vulgate VUL
American Standard Version ASV
1 quando sederis ut comedas cum principe diligenter adtende quae posita sunt ante faciem tuam
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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;
2 et statue cultrum in gutture tuo si tamen habes in potestate animam tuam
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And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
3 ne desideres de cibis eius in quo est panis mendacii
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Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.
4 noli laborare ut diteris sed prudentiae tuae pone modu
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Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom
5 ne erigas oculos tuos ad opes quas habere non potes quia facient sibi pinnas quasi aquilae et avolabunt in caelum
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
6 ne comedas cum homine invido et ne desideres cibos eius
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
7 quoniam in similitudinem arioli et coniectoris aestimat quod ignorat comede et bibe dicet tibi et mens eius non est tecum
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For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
8 cibos quos comederas evomes et perdes pulchros sermones tuos
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The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
9 in auribus insipientium ne loquaris quia despicient doctrinam eloquii tui
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Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 ne adtingas terminos parvulorum et agrum pupillorum ne introeas
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Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 propinquus enim eorum Fortis est et ipse iudicabit contra te causam illorum
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For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
12 ingrediatur ad doctrinam cor tuum et aures tuae ad verba scientiae
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Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 noli subtrahere a puero disciplinam si enim percusseris eum virga non morietur
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Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14 tu virga percuties eum et animam eius de inferno liberabi
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol
15 fili mi si sapiens fuerit animus tuus gaudebit tecum cor meum
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My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
16 et exultabunt renes mei cum locuta fuerint rectum labia tua
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Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
17 non aemuletur cor tuum peccatores sed in timore Domini esto tota die
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Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:
18 quia habebis spem in novissimo et praestolatio tua non auferetur
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For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.
19 audi fili mi et esto sapiens et dirige in via animum tuu
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way
20 noli esse in conviviis potatorum nec in comesationibus eorum qui carnes ad vescendum conferunt
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Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
21 quia vacantes potibus et dantes symbola consumentur et vestietur pannis dormitati
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags
22 audi patrem tuum qui genuit te et ne contemnas cum senuerit mater tua
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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 veritatem eme et noli vendere sapientiam et doctrinam et intellegentiam
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Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 exultat gaudio pater iusti qui sapientem genuit laetabitur in eo
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The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25 gaudeat pater tuus et mater tua et exultet quae genuit te
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Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
26 praebe fili mi cor tuum mihi et oculi tui vias meas custodiant
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My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
27 fovea enim profunda est meretrix et puteus angustus aliena
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For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
28 insidiatur in via quasi latro et quos incautos viderit interficit
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Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
29 cui vae cuius patri vae cui rixae cui foveae cui sine causa vulnera cui suffusio oculorum
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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
30 nonne his qui morantur in vino et student calicibus epotandis
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They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.
31 ne intuearis vinum quando flavescit cum splenduerit in vitro color eius ingreditur blande
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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:
32 sed in novissimo mordebit ut coluber et sicut regulus venena diffundet
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
33 oculi tui videbunt extraneas et cor tuum loquetur perversa
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Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
34 et eris sicut dormiens in medio mari et quasi sopitus gubernator amisso clavo
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Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 et dices verberaverunt me sed non dolui traxerunt me et ego non sensi quando evigilabo et rursum vina repperiam
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They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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