Good News Bible Anglicised

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 13:9-11 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

9. If you are invited to the home of someone influential, be reserved in your behaviour. Then he will invite you more often.

10. If you push yourself on him, he will put you in your place. On the other hand, if you keep your distance from him, he will forget about you.

11. Don't pretend to be his equal or trust everything he says. In spite of all his long and polite conversation, he is testing you.