Proverbs 25:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁶Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence
or stand in the place of the great;
⁷for it is better to be told, ‘Come up here’,
than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.

What your eyes have seen
⁸ do not hastily bring into court;
for^[a] what will you do in the end,
when your neighbour puts you to shame?

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Proverbs 25:8 Cn: Heb or else

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