Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth {his} substance.

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

He that loveth pleasure {shall be} a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. {pleasure: or, sport}

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Whoso keepeth the law {is} a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous {men} shameth his father. {is a companion...: or, feedeth gluttons}

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these {things} God will bring thee into judgment.

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

For the time past of {our} life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Manasseh {was} twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? {We are...: Heb. We have dominion}

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; {seat: or, habitation}

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so {is} a man that wandereth from his place.

For by means of a whorish woman {a man is brought} to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. {the adulteress: Heb. the woman of a man, or, a man's wife}

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek {after God}: God {is} not in all his thoughts. {God is...: or, all his thoughts are, There is no God}

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. {laden: Heb. of heaviness} {gone...: Heb. alienated, or, separated}

O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

Come ye, {say they}, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, {and} much more abundant.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, {and} hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

{There is} treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? {for: or, to}

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. {in wealth: or, in mirth}

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, {as} they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots {they are} and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed {thereto} according to thy word.

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. {in...: or, delicately}

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth {his} substance.

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

He that loveth pleasure {shall be} a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. {pleasure: or, sport}

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with {them} to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of {you}:

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: {of flesh: Heb. of their flesh}

Whoso keepeth the law {is} a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous {men} shameth his father. {is a companion...: or, feedeth gluttons}

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume {it} upon your lusts. {lusts: or, pleasures}

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

For by means of a whorish woman {a man is brought} to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. {the adulteress: Heb. the woman of a man, or, a man's wife}

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, {which} they prepared for Baal. {wine: Heb. new wine} {which...: or, wherewith they made Baal}

And he began to speak unto them by parables. A {certain} man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about {it}, and digged {a place for} the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.