Proverbs 24 Thou shalt not envy against men of evil, thou shalt not desire to be with them.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Thou shalt not envy against men of evil, thou shalt not desire to be with them. ² For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor. ³ By wisdom a house will be built, and it will be prepared by understanding: ⁴ And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ⁵ A wise man is in strength, and a man of knowledge strengthens power. ⁶ For by guidance thou shalt make to thee war, and in the multitude of counselors salvation. ⁷ High things to the foolish is wisdom: in the gate he will not open his mouth. ⁸ He purposing to do evil for himself shall be called the master of mischief. ⁹ The purpose of folly is sin, and he mocking, an abomination to man. ¹⁰ Wilt thou be discouraged in the day of straits thy strength is narrow. ¹¹ If thou shalt refrain to deliver those being brought to death, and those going to be slain; ¹² If thou shalt say, Behold, we knew not this; will not he trying hearts, understand? and he guarding thy soul, knew? and he turned back to man according to his work. ¹³ My son, eat honey, for it is good; and the dropping of honey being sweet to thy palate. ¹⁴ So the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul if thou shalt find: and there is a latter state and thine expectation shall not be cut off. ¹⁵ Thou shalt not lay wait, O wicked one, against the dwelling of the just one; thou shalt not destroy his resting place: ¹⁶ For the just one shall fall seven times, and rise: and the unjust shall be weak in evil ¹⁷ In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult: ¹⁸ Lest Jehovah shall see and it be evil in his eyes, and he turn back from him his anger. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not be angry against the evil; thou shalt not envy against the unjust: ²⁰ For there shall be no latter state to the evil one: the light of the unjust shall be extinguished. ²¹ My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king: thou shalt not intermingle with those changing: ²² For suddenly shall their calamity rise, and who shall make known the misfortune of them two? ²³ Also these to the wise. To look upon the face in judgment is not good. ²⁴ He saying to the unjust, Thou art just; peoples shall curse him, and nations shall curse him: ²⁵ And it shall be pleasant to those reproving, and a blessing of good shall come upon them. ²⁶ He shall kiss the lips turning back right words. ²⁷ Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field afterwards; and build thy house. ²⁸ Thou shalt not be a witness gratuitously against thy neighbor, and deceive not with thy lips. ²⁹ Thou shalt not say, According to what he did to me, thus will I do to him: I will turn back to the man according to his work. ³⁰ I passed upon the field of the slothful man, and upon the vineyard of the man wanting heart; ³¹ And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown. ³² And I shall see and set my heart: I looked, I took instruction. ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: ³⁴ And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.