Proverbs 13 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ A wise son is obedient to his father: but a disobedient son will be destroyed. ² A good [man] shall eat of the fruits of righteousness: but the lives of transgressors shall perish before their time. ³ He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: but he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself. ⁴ Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent. ⁵ A righteous man hates an unjust word: but an ungodly man is ashamed, and will have no confidence. ⁷ There are [some] who, having nothing, enrich themselves: and there are [some] who bring themselves down in [the midst of] much wealth. ⁸ A man's own wealth is the ransom of his life: but the poor endures not threatening. ⁹ The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity, and are merciful. ¹⁰ A bad man does evil with insolence: but they that are judges of themselves are wise. ¹¹ Wealth gotten hastily with iniquity is diminished: but he that gathers for himself with godliness shall be increased. The righteous is merciful, and lends. ¹² Better is he that begins to help heartily, than he that promises and leads [another] to hope: for a good desire is a tree of life. ¹³ He that slights a matter shall be slighted of it: but he that fears the commandment has health [of soul]. To a crafty son there shall be nothing good: but a wise servant shall have prosperous doings, and his way shall be directed aright. ¹⁴ The law of the wise is fountain of life: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare. ¹⁵ Sound discretion gives favor, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction. ¹⁶ Every prudent man acts with knowledge: but the fool displays his own mischief. ¹⁷ A rash king shall fall into mischief: but a wise messenger shall deliver him. ¹⁸ Instruction removes poverty and disgrace: but he that attends to reproofs shall be honored. ¹⁹ The desires of the godly gladden the soul, but the works of the ungodly are far from knowledge. ²⁰ If you walk with wise men you shall be wise: but he that walks with fools shall be known. ²¹ Evil shall pursue sinners; but good shall overtake the righteous. ²² A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just. ²³ The righteous shall spend many years in wealth: but the unrighteous shall perish suddenly. ²⁴ He that spares the rod hates his son: but he that loves, carefully chastens [him]. ²⁵ A just [man] eats and satisfies his soul: but the souls of the ungodly are in lack.

²⁵ If a man should at all sin against another, then shall they pray for him to the Lord; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? But they listened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would by all means destroy them.

¹ Hear, you⌃ children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For I give you a good gift; forsake you⌃ not my law. ³ For I also was a son obedient to [my] father, and loved in the sight of [my] mother: ⁴ who spoke and instructed me, [saying], Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep [our] commandments, forget them not: ⁵ and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. ⁶ And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.

⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you; ⁹ that it may give to your head a crown of graces, and may cover you with a crown of delight. ¹⁰ Hear, [my] son, and receive my words; and the years of your life shall be increased, that the resources of your life may be many. ¹¹ For I teach you the ways of wisdom; and I cause you to go in right paths. ¹² For when you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not be distressed. ¹³ Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, —but keep it for yourself for your life. ¹⁴ Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.

²⁰ [My] son, attend to my speech; and apply your ear to my words: ²¹ that your fountains may not fail you; keep them in [your] heart. ²² For they are life to those that find them, and health to all [their] flesh.

⁷ He that reproves evil [men] shall get dishonor to himself; and he that rebukes an ungodly [man] shall disgrace himself. ⁸ Rebuke not evil [men], lest they should hate you: rebuke a wise [man], and he will love you.

¹ A wise son makes [his] father glad: but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

⁶ You shall seek wisdom with bad men, and shall not find it; but discretion is easily available with the prudent.

⁵ A fool scorns his father's instruction; but he that keeps his commandments is more prudent. In abounding righteousness is great strength: but the ungodly shall utterly perish from the earth.

²⁰ A wise son gladdens [his] father; but a foolish son sneers at his mother.

¹⁴ Therefore hear you⌃ the word of the Lord, you⌃ afflicted men, and you⌃ princes of this people that is in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Because you⌃ have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:

⁸ You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

¹¹ If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth: ¹² and let us swallow him alive, as Hades [would], and remove the memorial of him from the earth: ¹³ let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils:

¹⁸ For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.

¹⁷ For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.

¹¹ [There is] a fountain of life in the hand of a righteous man; but destruction shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

¹⁴ The soul of a man shall be filled with good from the fruits of his mouth; and the recompence of his lips shall be given to him.

²⁰ A man fills his belly with the fruits of his mouth; and he shall be satisfied with the fruits of his lips.

⁸ Because you have spoiled many nations, all the nations that are left shall spoil [you], because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

¹⁷ For the ungodliness of Libanus shall cover you, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

¹ (40) For the end, a Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and listened to my supplication.

¹⁹ By a multitude of words you shall not escape sin; but if you refrain your lips you will be prudent.

¹³ For the sin of [his] lips a sinner falls into snare; but a righteous man escapes from them. He whose looks are gentle shall be pitied, but he that contends in the gates will afflict souls.

⁷ A fool's mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

²¹ Life and death are in the power of the tongue; and they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.

²³ He that keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble.

¹⁰ Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, and who shall number the families of Israel? let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, and let my seed be as their seed.

² your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son. ³ For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding; ⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding, ⁷ and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way; ⁸ that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him. ⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment; and shall direct all your course aright.

³⁴ watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

⁴ Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich. A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant.

²⁵ Every sincere soul is blessed: but a passionate man is not graceful.

¹¹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strong holds.

²⁴ The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule; but the deceitful shall be for a prey.

¹³ A sluggard when sent on a journey says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and [there are] murderers in the streets.

²⁵ An unbelieving man judges rashly: but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully.

¹¹ and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain [from] which the water has not failed.

³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory; but the ungodly have exalted [their own] dishonor.

¹⁷ The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

⁸ Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth [or] poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:

⁹ then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn [an oath] against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.

⁴³ And you⌃ shall there remember your ways, and your devices wherewith you⌃ defiled yourselves; and you⌃ shall bewail yourselves for all your wickedness.

³¹ And you⌃ shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and you⌃ shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations.

² And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

⁸ And I will cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against me.

²³ I will seek after the gods of Damascus that strike me. And he said, Forasmuch as the gods of the king of Syria themselves strengthen them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, and they will help me. But they became a stumbling block to him, and to all Israel.

² I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; for you has no need of my goodness.

¹ (27) [A Psalm] of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.

³ When a just man dies he leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy.

⁵ Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing. ⁶ The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.

¹² A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.

²⁴ There are [some] who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are [some] also who gather, [yet] have less.

⁹ Better is a man in dishonor serving himself, than one honouring himself and lacking bread.

¹¹ Wealth gotten hastily with iniquity is diminished: but he that gathers for himself with godliness shall be increased. The righteous is merciful, and lends.

¹ Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days. ² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

³⁰ And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.

¹⁴ And he carried away [the inhabitants of] Jerusalem, and all the captains, and the mighty men, taking captive ten thousand prisoners, and every artificer and smith: and only the poor of the land were left.

¹² But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.

⁴ And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause. ⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God. ⁸ I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually. ⁹ I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks. ¹⁰ For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

³⁵ He will not forego [his] enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.

¹⁰ And I wrote [it] in a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.

⁸ The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after king Sedekias had concluded a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release;

¹² And I will leave in you a meek and lowly people;

³⁶ But to his son I will give the two [remaining] tribes, that my servant David may have an establishment continually before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up. ⁶ His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

¹⁷ Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

³ As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

⁴ The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens.

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.

²⁰ For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.

¹⁰ Who is among you that fears the Lord? let him listen to the voice of his servant: you⌃ that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God. ¹¹ Behold, you⌃ all kindle a fire, and feed a flame: walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which you⌃ have kindled. This has happened to you for my sake; you⌃ shall lie down in sorrow.

¹ And the men of Ephraim said to Gedeon, What [is] this [that] you have done to us, in that you did not call us when you went to fight with Madiam? and they chode with him sharply. ² And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison of you? [is] not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? ³ The Lord has delivered into your hand the princes of Madiam, Oreb and Zeb; and what could I do in comparison of you? Then was their spirit calmed toward him, when he spoke this word.

¹ And the men of Ephraim assembled [themselves], and passed on to the north, and said to Jephthae, Therefore did you go over to fight with the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? we will burn your house over you with fire. ² And Jephthae said to them, I and my people and the children of Ammon were very much engaged in war; and I called for you, and you⌃ did not save me out of their hand. ³ And I saw that you were no helper, and I put my life in my hand, and passed on to the sons of Ammon; and the Lord delivered them into my hand: and therefore are you⌃ come up against me this day to fight with me? ⁴ And Jephthae gathered all the men of Galaad, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Galaad struck Ephraim, because they that were escaped of Ephraim said, You⌃ [are] of Galaad in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasse. ⁵ And Galaad took the fords of Jordan before Ephraim; and they that escaped of Ephraim said to them, Let us go over: and the men of Galaad said, Are you an Ephrathite? and he said, No. ⁶ Then they said to him, Say now Stachys; and he did not rightly pronounce it so: and they took him, and killed him at the fords of Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.

¹⁰ And the young men who had been brought up with him, who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and do you now lighten it from off us: thus shall say to them, My little [finger shall be] thicker than my father's loins. ¹¹ And whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I also will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

¹⁶ And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them: and the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessae. Depart, O Israel, to your tents: now feed your own house, David. So Israel departed to his tents.

¹⁰ You have struck and wounded Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: stay at home and glorify yourself; for therefore are you quarrelsome to your hurt? So [both] you will fall and Juda with you.

¹⁵ The ways of fools are right in their own eyes; but a wise man hearkens to counsels. ¹⁶ A fool declares his wrath the same day; but a prudent man hides his own disgrace.

¹⁴ Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.

²⁰ Hear, son, the instruction of your father, that you may be wise at your latter end.

²⁴ A bold and self-willed and insolent [man] is called a pest: and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor.

⁸ Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest you repent at last.

²⁸ And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away. ²⁹ Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.

¹⁵ [His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house.

¹⁹ For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built [it] not. ²⁰ There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire. ²¹ There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish. ²² But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him.

¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth.

² Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me.

² Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.

²² A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just. ²³ The righteous shall spend many years in wealth: but the unrighteous shall perish suddenly.

²¹ A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.

²³ Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds. ²⁴ For a man [has] not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation. ²⁵ Take care of the herbage in the field, and you shall cut grass, and gather the mountain hay; ²⁶ that you may have [wool of] sheep for clothing: pay attention to the land, that you may have lambs. ²⁷ [My] son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.

⁸ He that increases his wealth by usuries and [unjust] gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.

²⁰ A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: but the wicked shall not be unpunished.

²² An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

¹⁴ As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labor, that it should go [with him] in his hand.

¹¹ The partridge utters her voice, she gathers [eggs] which she did not lay; [so is a man] gaining his wealth unjustly; in the midst of his days [his riches] shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.

⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him? and a proverb to tell against him? and they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! how long? and who heavily loads his yoke. ⁷ For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and they that plot against you shall awake, and you shall be a plunder to them.

⁶ And Sarrha said, The Lord has made laughter for me, for whoever shall hear shall rejoice with me. ⁷ And she said, Who shall say to Abraam that Sarrha suckles a child? for I have born a child in my old age.

³⁰ And Israel said to Joseph, After this I will [gladly] die, since I have seen your face, for you are yet living.

²⁶ And she said, I pray you, my lord, as your soul lives, I [am] the woman that stood in your presence with you while praying to the Lord. ²⁷ For this child I prayed; and the Lord has given me my request that I asked of him. ²⁸ And I lend him to the Lord all his days that he lives, a loan to the Lord: and she said,

¹⁵ And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath.

² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy. ³ May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; you have made all his bed in his sickness.

¹ (43) A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. ² For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses [me]? ³ Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles.

³ Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

⁷ Send forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is [a] secure [help] to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

³⁰ Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

¹⁹ The desires of the godly gladden the soul, but the works of the ungodly are far from knowledge.

⁸ I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you⌃ should find my kinsman, what are you⌃ to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

³¹ for he has set at nothing the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin [is] upon him.

⁹ Why have you set at nothing the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? you have slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall not depart from your house for ever, because you has set me at nothing, and you have taken the wife of Urias the Chettite, to be your wife.

¹⁶ Nevertheless they sneered at his messengers, and set at nothing his words, and mocked his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against his people, till there was no remedy.

³ Now then let us make a covenant with our God, to put away all the wives, and their offspring, as you shall advise:

¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

²⁵ but you⌃ set at nothing my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;

³⁰ neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs. ³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.

²¹ Evil shall pursue sinners; but good shall overtake the righteous.

² For all these things are mine, says the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] my words?

² Take you a roll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to you against Jerusalem, and against Juda, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to you, from the days of Josias king of Juda, even to this day.

¹⁶ So Jeremias came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days. ¹⁷ Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: you shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

¹³ And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk you⌃ in my commandments: but they walked not [in them], and they rejected mine ordinances, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

¹⁶ because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.

²⁴ because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

¹⁶ Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name.

⁶ the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me. ⁷ When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, and will cry to my God, and he shall hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come into his ears.

⁵ In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course.

¹¹ For in this way you shall live long, and years of your life shall be added to you.

²⁷ The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causes [men] to turn aside from the snare of death.

²⁴ The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.

¹⁷ The paths of life turn aside from evil; and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity; and he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways, preserves his own soul; and he that loves his life will spare his mouth.

²² Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessors; but the instruction of fools is evil.

¹⁴ And David was prudent in all his ways, and the Lord was with him. ¹⁵ And Saul saw that he was very wise, and he was afraid of him. ¹⁶ And all Israel and Juda loved David, because he came in and went out before the people.

⁹ Worship the Lord in his holy court: let all the earth tremble before him. ¹⁰ Say among the heathen, The Lord reigns: for he has established the world so that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people in righteousness. ¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth exult; let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it.

¹⁰ The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the sinner shall perish.

⁴ so shall you find favor: and do you provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

¹⁹ But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

³⁵ An understanding servant is acceptable to a king; and by his good behavior he removes disgrace.

¹⁰ The instruction of the simple is known by them that pass by; but they that hate reproofs die disgracefully.

¹⁹ Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you: know then, and see, that your forsaking me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

¹⁰ And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jessae? Now-a-days there is abundance of servants who depart every one from his master. ¹¹ And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my beasts that I have slain for my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are?

¹⁷ And now do you consider, and see what you will do; for mischief is determined against our lord and against his house; and he [is] a vile character, and one can’t speak to him.

²⁵ Let not my lord, I pray you, take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I your handmaid saw not the servants of my lord whom you did send.

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

²² Lying lips are a abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him. ²³ An understanding man is a throne of wisdom; but the heart of fools shall meet with curses.

² The tongue of the wise knows what is good: but the mouth of the foolish tells out evil things.

³ Yes, and whenever a fool walks by the way, his heart will fail him, and all that he thinks of is folly.

¹³ Behold, my servant shall understand, and be exalted, and glorified exceedingly.

²⁶ As a sour grape is hurtful to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so iniquity hurts those that practise it.

¹³ As a fall of snow in the time of harvest is good against heat, so a faithful messenger [refreshes] those that send him; for he helps the souls of his employers.

²³ The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue.

⁶ He that sends a message by a foolish messenger procures for himself a reproach from his own ways.

¹³ And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led my people Israel astray. ¹⁴ Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way: they are all become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth [into] all the land. ¹⁶ Thus says the Lord Almighty, Listen not to the words of the prophets: for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.

²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is my word [spoken] to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, says the Lord.

¹⁸ When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you have not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

⁷ And you, son of man, I have set you [as] a watchman to the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from my mouth. ⁸ When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die; [if] you speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

⁵ I cried to you, O Lord, and said, You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

⁹ lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless: ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labors come into the houses of strangers; ¹¹ And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed, ¹² and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs! ¹³ I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear. ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

⁹ Give an opportunity to a wise [man], and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more [instruction].

¹ He that loves instruction loves sense, but he that hates reproofs is a fool.

¹³ He that slights a matter shall be slighted of it: but he that fears the commandment has health [of soul]. To a crafty son there shall be nothing good: but a wise servant shall have prosperous doings, and his way shall be directed aright.

³² He that rejects instruction hates himself; but he that mind reproofs loves his soul.

⁶ Many court the favor of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to [another] man.

¹² In an ear-ring of gold a precious sardius is also set; [so is] a wise word to an obedient ear.

³ O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return. ⁴ Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God. ⁵ I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds. ⁶ Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings. ⁷ In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses. ⁸ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

⁴⁸ Moreover thus said the king, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel, who has this day appointed one of my seed sitting on my throne, and my eyes see it.

²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

¹ (22) For the end, concerning the morning aid, a Psalm of David. O God, my God, attend to me: why have you forsaken me? the account of my transgressions is far from my salvation. ² O my God, I will cry to you by day, but you will not hear: and by night, and [it shall] not [be accounted] for folly to me.

¹⁴ I behaved agreeably towards them as [if it had been] our neighbor [or] brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil.

¹² Better is he that begins to help heartily, than he that promises and leads [another] to hope: for a good desire is a tree of life.

²⁷ A righteous man is an abomination to an unrighteous man, and the direct way is an abomination to the sinner.

⁴ [It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

¹² And Lot lived in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom. ¹³ But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

¹² And they took also Lot the son of Abram's brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he lived in Sodom.

⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who were brought up with him, who stood in his presence.

¹⁰ And the young men who had been brought up with him, who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and do you now lighten it from off us: thus shall say to them, My little [finger shall be] thicker than my father's loins.

⁴ And the king of Israel said to Josaphat, Will you go up with us to Remmath Galaad to battle?

³² And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat king of Juda, that they said, this seems [to be] the king of Israel. And they compassed him about to fight [against] him; and Josaphat cried out.

² And there went out to meet him Jeu the prophet the son of Anani, and said to him, King Josaphat, do you help a sinner, or act friendly towards one hated of the Lord? Therefore has wrath come upon you from the Lord.

¹¹ If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth: ¹² and let us swallow him alive, as Hades [would], and remove the memorial of him from the earth: ¹³ let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils: ¹⁴ but do you cast in your lot with us, and let us all provide a common purse, and let us have one pouch: ¹⁵ go not in the way with them, but turn aside your foot from their paths: ¹⁶ [For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood. ] ¹⁷ for nets are not without cause spread for birds. ¹⁸ For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. ¹³ Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; ¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding; ¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you, ¹⁷ [of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. ¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants. ¹⁹ None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life. ²⁰ For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy.

²² And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow: ²³ and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.

²⁷ Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.

⁶ Leave folly, that you⌃ may reign for ever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.

⁷ Tell me, [you] whom my soul loves, where you tend your flock, where you cause [them] to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of your companions. ⁸ If you know not yourself, you fair one among women, go you forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed your kids by the shepherd's tents.

⁷ Hast you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him.

²³ But if you⌃ will not do so, you⌃ will sin against the Lord; and you⌃ shall know your sin, when afflictions shall come upon you.

¹⁰ The Lord frustrates the counsels of the nations; he brings to nothing also the reasonings of the peoples, and brings to nothing the counsels of princes.

¹⁰ Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works. ¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between you and your seed after you, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be your God, and [the God] of your seed after you. ⁸ And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land wherein you sojourn, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.

¹² And now give not your daughters to their sons, and take not of their daughters for your sons, neither shall you⌃ seek their peace or their good for ever: that you⌃ may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and transmit it as an inheritance to your children for ever.

¹² My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless you, O Lord.

² Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever.

⁶ Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up.

²⁶ For [God] has given to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but he has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷ For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom. ⁹ How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep? ¹⁰ You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short [time], and you fold your arms over your breast a little. ¹¹ Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

¹⁸ He that plants a fig tree shall eat the fruits of it: so he that waits on his own master shall be honored.

¹⁹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.

⁹ He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity.

⁵ He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment. ⁶ For to every thing there is time and judgment; for the knowledge of a man is great to him. ⁷ Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord. ⁸ How will you⌃ say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen. ⁹ The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them? ¹⁰ Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to [new] inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, says the Lord.

¹² for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives.

³⁶ But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls: and they that hate me love death.

¹⁸ Chasten your son, for so he shall be hopeful; and be not exalted in your soul to haughtiness.

¹⁵ Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are [then] far from him.

¹³ Refrain not from chastening a child; for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴ For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death.

¹⁵ Stripes and reproofs give wisdom: but an erring child disgraces his parents.

¹⁷ Chasten your son, and he shall give you rest; and he shall give honor to your soul.

⁴⁸ And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed you.

²⁴ [They shall be] consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of [serpents] creeping on the ground.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

³ For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.

¹⁶ For I said, Lest mine enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.

¹⁸ For I will declare mine iniquity, and be distressed for my sin. ¹⁹ But mine enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.

¹¹ Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

³ The Lord will not famish a righteous soul: but he will overthrow the life of the ungodly.

³⁴ But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.

¹³ Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you⌃ shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but you⌃ shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you⌃ shall be ashamed: ¹⁴ behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but you⌃ shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.