True Riches (1 Timothy 6:17–19; James 5:1–6)
Saying 7 1 DRA When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face. BSB BSB: When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
2 DRA And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power. BSB BSB: and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
3 DRA Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit. BSB BSB: Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Saying 8 4 DRA Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence. BSB BSB: Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 DRA 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. 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 DRA Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats: BSB BSB: Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
7 DRA 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. 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 DRA The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words. BSB BSB: You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Saying 10 9 DRA Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech. BSB BSB: Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Saying 11 10 DRA Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: BSB BSB: Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 DRA For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee. BSB BSB: for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
Saying 12 12 DRA Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge. BSB BSB: Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Saying 13 13 DRA Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike 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 DRA Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell. BSB BSB: Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Saying 14 15 DRA My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee: BSB BSB: My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
16 DRA And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right. BSB BSB: My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
Saying 15 17 DRA Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou 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 DRA Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away. BSB BSB: For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Saying 16 19 DRA Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way. BSB BSB: Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20 DRA Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat: BSB BSB: Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
21 DRA Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags. BSB BSB: For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Saying 17 22 DRA Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy 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 DRA Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. BSB BSB: Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 DRA The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy 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 DRA Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee. BSB BSB: May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
Saying 18 26 DRA My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways. BSB BSB: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
27 DRA For a harlot 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 DRA She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. BSB BSB: Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Saying 19 29 DRA Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath 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 DRA Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups. BSB BSB: Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
31 DRA Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, BSB BSB: Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
32 DRA But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk. BSB BSB: In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
33 DRA Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. BSB BSB: Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
34 DRA And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost. BSB BSB: You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
35 DRA 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? 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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