Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Do not be too forward or you may be rebuffed, but neither should you keep aloof lest you be forgotten.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Do not be forward, or you may be rebuffed; do not stand aloof, or you will be forgotten.
Good News Translation®
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.
Wycliffe Bible
Be thou not greatly pressing, lest thou be hurtled down; and be thou not far from him, lest thou go into forgetting. [Be thou not too greedy, lest thou be put again; and be thou not far from him, lest thou go into forgetting.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Do not push forward, lest you be repulsed; and do not remain at a distance, lest you be forgotten.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Do not be forward, or you may be rebuffed; do not stand aloof, or you will be forgotten.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Do not be forward, or you may be rebuffed; do not stand aloof, or you will be forgotten.
Common English Bible © 2011
Don’t be forward, or you might be rejected; and don’t stand far off, or you might be forgotten.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Do not draw too close, lest you be rebuffed, but do not keep too far away lest you be regarded as an enemy.
Revised Standard Version
Do not push forward, lest you be repulsed; and do not remain at a distance, lest you be forgotten.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Do not be forward, or you may be rebuffed; do not stand aloof, or you will be forgotten.