Tobit 4:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ So now, my son, love your kindred, and in your heart do not be so arrogant against the daughters of the members of your people as to refuse to take one of them as a wife. For in arrogance there is ruin and great confusion, and in idleness there is loss and dire poverty, because idleness is the mother of famine.

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Common English Bible

¹³ “And now, my child, love your relatives and don’t be too proud in your heart to take a daughter from the descendants of your people as your wife. In pride there is much ruin and instability, and laziness results in loss and great poverty, for laziness is the mother of hunger.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Take care to keep yourself, my son, from all fornication, and, except for your wife, never permit yourself to know such an offense.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication: and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.

Good News Translation (US Version)

¹³ Son, be loyal to your own relatives. Don't be too proud to marry one of them. Such pride leads to terrible frustration and ruin, just as laziness brings on severe poverty and causes starvation.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

¹³ And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in idleness is decay and great lack; for idleness is the mother of famine.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

¹³ Have love in your heart for the people of your own nation. Don't be proud and think you are too good to marry an Israelite woman. Pride like that will confuse and destroy you, just as laziness will make you poor and starving.

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