True Riches (1 Timothy 6:17–19; James 5:1–6)
Saying 7 1 CPDV When you sit down to eat with a leader, pay close attention to what has been set before your face, BSB BSB: When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
2 CPDV and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power. BSB BSB: and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
3 CPDV Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit. BSB BSB: Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Saying 8 4 CPDV Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence. BSB BSB: Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 CPDV Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky. 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 CPDV Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods. BSB BSB: Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
7 CPDV For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. “Eat and drink,” he will say to you; and his mind 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 CPDV The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words. BSB BSB: You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Saying 10 9 CPDV Do not speak into the ears of the unwise. They will despise the doctrine of your eloquence. BSB BSB: Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Saying 11 10 CPDV Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless. BSB BSB: Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 CPDV For their close relative is strong, and he will judge their case against you. BSB BSB: for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
Saying 12 12 CPDV Let your heart enter into doctrine, and let your ears enter into words of knowledge. BSB BSB: Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Saying 13 13 CPDV Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. BSB BSB: Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 CPDV You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell. BSB BSB: Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Saying 14 15 CPDV My son, if your soul will become wise, my heart will be glad with you. BSB BSB: My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
16 CPDV And my temperament will exult, when your lips will have spoken what is upright. BSB BSB: My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
Saying 15 17 CPDV Let not your heart compete with sinners. But be in the fear of the Lord all day long. BSB BSB: Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
18 CPDV For you will have hope in the end, and your expectation will not be taken away. BSB BSB: For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Saying 16 19 CPDV Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way. BSB BSB: Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20 CPDV Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh. BSB BSB: Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
21 CPDV For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags. BSB BSB: For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Saying 17 22 CPDV Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise 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 CPDV Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding. BSB BSB: Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 CPDV The father of the just exults in gladness; he who has conceived the wise will rejoice in him. BSB BSB: The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
25 CPDV Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult. BSB BSB: May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
Saying 18 26 CPDV My son, offer me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways. BSB BSB: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
27 CPDV For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well. BSB BSB: For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
28 CPDV She lies in wait along the way like a robber. And the incautious one whom she sees, she will put to death. BSB BSB: Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Saying 19 29 CPDV Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes? BSB BSB: Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 CPDV Is it not those who linger over wine, and who strive to be drinking from their cups? BSB BSB: Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
31 CPDV Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly, BSB BSB: Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
32 CPDV but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes. BSB BSB: In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
33 CPDV Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities. BSB BSB: Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
34 CPDV And you will be like someone sleeping in the middle of the sea, and like a pilot, fast asleep, who has lost his hold on the helm. BSB BSB: You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
35 CPDV And you will say: “They have beaten me, but I did not feel pain. They have dragged me, and I did not realize it. When will I awaken and find more wine?” 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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