True Riches (1 Timothy 6:17–19; James 5:1–6)
Saying 7 1 AKJV When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you: BSB BSB: When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
2 AKJV And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. BSB BSB: and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
3 AKJV Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. BSB BSB: Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Saying 8 4 AKJV Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom. BSB BSB: Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 AKJV Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. BSB BSB: When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Saying 9 6 AKJV Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats: BSB BSB: Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
7 AKJV For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you. BSB BSB: for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 AKJV The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words. BSB BSB: You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Saying 10 9 AKJV Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words. BSB BSB: Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Saying 11 10 AKJV Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: BSB BSB: Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 AKJV For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you. BSB BSB: for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
Saying 12 12 AKJV Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. BSB BSB: Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Saying 13 13 AKJV Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die. BSB BSB: Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 AKJV You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. BSB BSB: Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Saying 14 15 AKJV My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. BSB BSB: My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
16 AKJV Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things. BSB BSB: My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
Saying 15 17 AKJV Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long. BSB BSB: Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
18 AKJV For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off. BSB BSB: For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Saying 16 19 AKJV Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way. BSB BSB: Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20 AKJV Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: BSB BSB: Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
21 AKJV For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. BSB BSB: For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Saying 17 22 AKJV Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old. BSB BSB: Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 AKJV Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. BSB BSB: Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 AKJV The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him. BSB BSB: The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
25 AKJV Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice. BSB BSB: May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
Saying 18 26 AKJV My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. BSB BSB: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
27 AKJV For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. BSB BSB: For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
28 AKJV She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men. BSB BSB: Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Saying 19 29 AKJV Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes? BSB BSB: Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 AKJV They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. BSB BSB: Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
31 AKJV Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright. BSB BSB: Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
32 AKJV At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. BSB BSB: In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
33 AKJV Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things. BSB BSB: Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
34 AKJV Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast. BSB BSB: You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
35 AKJV They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. BSB BSB: “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
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