Proverbs 4:14-19
New Living Translation
14 Don’t do as the wicked do,
and don’t follow the path of evildoers.
15 Don’t even think about it; don’t go that way.
Turn away and keep moving.
16 For evil people can’t sleep until they’ve done their evil deed for the day.
They can’t rest until they’ve caused someone to stumble.
17 They eat the food of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence!
18 The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
which shines ever brighter until the full light of day.
19 But the way of the wicked is like total darkness.
They have no idea what they are stumbling over.
Proverbs 4:14-19
English Standard Version
14 (A)Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
16 For they (B)cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
(C)and drink the wine of violence.
18 But (D)the path of the righteous is like (E)the light of dawn,
which shines (F)brighter and brighter until (G)full day.
19 (H)The way of the wicked is like deep (I)darkness;
they do not know over what they (J)stumble.
Proverbs 13:20
New Living Translation
20 Walk with the wise and become wise;
associate with fools and get in trouble.
Proverbs 13:20
English Standard Version
20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 14:7
New Living Translation
7 Stay away from fools,
for you won’t find knowledge on their lips.
Proverbs 14:7
English Standard Version
7 Leave the presence of a fool,
for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Proverbs 16:19
New Living Translation
19 Better to live humbly with the poor
than to share plunder with the proud.
Proverbs 16:19
English Standard Version
19 (A)It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
than to (B)divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 20:19
New Living Translation
19 A gossip goes around telling secrets,
so don’t hang around with chatterers.
Proverbs 20:19
English Standard Version
19 Whoever (A)goes about slandering reveals secrets;
therefore do not associate with (B)a simple babbler.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 20:19 Hebrew with one who is simple in his lips
Proverbs 22:5
New Living Translation
5 Corrupt people walk a thorny, treacherous road;
whoever values life will avoid it.
Proverbs 22:5
English Standard Version
5 (A)Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;
whoever (B)guards his soul will keep far from them.
Proverbs 22:24-25
New Living Translation
24 Don’t befriend angry people
or associate with hot-tempered people,
25 or you will learn to be like them
and endanger your soul.
Proverbs 22:24-25
English Standard Version
24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
nor go with a wrathful man,
25 lest you learn his ways
and entangle yourself in a snare.
Proverbs 23:6-8
New Living Translation
6 Don’t eat with people who are stingy;
don’t desire their delicacies.
7 They are always thinking about how much it costs.[a]
“Eat and drink,” they say, but they don’t mean it.
8 You will throw up what little you’ve eaten,
and your compliments will be wasted.
Footnotes
- 23:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Proverbs 23:6-8
English Standard Version
6 (A)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (B)stingy;[a]
(C)do not desire his delicacies,
7 for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.[b]
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
but his (D)heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
and waste your pleasant words.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil
- Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he
Proverbs 23:20-21
New Living Translation
20 Do not carouse with drunkards
or feast with gluttons,
21 for they are on their way to poverty,
and too much sleep clothes them in rags.
Proverbs 23:20-21
English Standard Version
20 Be not among (A)drunkards[a]
or among (B)gluttonous eaters of meat,
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
and (C)slumber will clothe them with rags.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:20 Hebrew those who drink too much wine
Proverbs 24:1-2
New Living Translation
24 Don’t envy evil people
or desire their company.
2 For their hearts plot violence,
and their words always stir up trouble.
Proverbs 24:1-2
English Standard Version
24 Be not (A)envious of evil men,
nor desire to be (B)with them,
2 for their hearts (C)devise violence,
and their lips (D)talk of trouble.
Proverbs 24:21-22
New Living Translation
21 My child, fear the Lord and the king.
Don’t associate with rebels,
22 for disaster will hit them suddenly.
Who knows what punishment will come
from the Lord and the king?
Proverbs 24:21-22
English Standard Version
21 My son, (A)fear the Lord and the king,
and do not join with those who do otherwise,
22 for disaster will arise suddenly from them,
and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?
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