Proverbs 20 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: but every fool is entangled with them. ² The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul. ³ [It is] a glory to a man to turn aside from railing; but every fool is entangled with such matters. ⁴ A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest. ⁵ Counsel in a man's heart is deep water; but a prudent man will draw it out. ⁶ A man is valuable, and a merciful man precious: but [it is] hard to find a faithful man. ⁷ He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed. ⁸ Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence. ⁹ Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins? ¹⁰ A large and small weight, and various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and [so is] he that makes them. ¹¹ A youth [when in company] with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and [then] his way will be straight. ¹² The ear hears, and the eye sees: even both of them are the Lord's work. ¹³ Love not to speak ill, lest you be cut off: open your eyes, and be filled with bread. ²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness. ²¹ A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end. ²² Say not, I will avenge myself on my enemy; but wait on the Lord, that he may help you. ²³ A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight. ²⁴ A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways? ²⁵ It is a snare to a man hastily to consecrate some of his own property: for [in that case] repentance comes after vowing. ²⁶ A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them. ²⁷ The spirit of man is a light of the Lord, who searches the inmost parts of the belly. ²⁸ Mercy and truth are a guard to a king, and will surround his throne with righteousness. ²⁹ Wisdom is an ornament to young men; and grey [hairs] are the glory of old men. ³⁰ Bruises and contusions befall bad men; and plagues [shall come] in the inward parts of [their] belly.

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house. ²² And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without. ²³ And Sem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face [was] backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.

³¹ And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth. ³² Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father. ³³ So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up. ³⁴ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do you go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father. ³⁵ So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose. ³⁶ And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

³⁶ And Abigaia came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in this house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal [was] merry within him, and he [was] very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light. ³⁷ And it came to pass in the morning, when Nabal recovered from his wine, his wife told him these words; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. ³⁸ And it came to pass after about ten days, that the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

¹³ And David called him, and he ate before him and drank, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

²⁸ And Abessalom charged his servants, saying, Mark when the heart of Amnon shall be merry with wine, and I shall say to you, Strike Amnon, and kill him: fear not; for is it not I that command you? Be courageous, and be valiant.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when Achaab heard that Nabuthai the Jezraelite was dead, that he tore his garments, and put on sackcloth. And it came to pass afterward, that Achaab arose and went down to the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, to take possession of it. ¹⁷ And the Lord spoke to Eliu the Thesbite, saying, ¹⁸ Arise, and go down to meet Achaab king of Israel, who is in Samaria, for he [is] in the vineyard of Nabuthai, for he has gone down there to take possession of it. ¹⁹ And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord, Forasmuch as you have slain and taken possession, therefore thus says the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Nabuthai, there shall the dogs lick your blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in your blood. ²⁰ And Achaab said to Eliu, Hast you found me, mine enemy? and he said, I have found [you]: because you have wickedly sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger; ²¹ behold, I bring evil upon you: and I will kindle a fire after you, and I will utterly destroy every male of Achaab, and him that is shut up and him that is left in Israel.

²⁹ Who [has] woe? who trouble? who [has] quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who [has] bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid? ³⁰ Are not those of them that stay long at wine? [are] not [those] of them that haunt [the places] where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse [with them] openly. ³¹ For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last [such a one] stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things. ³⁴ And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm. ³⁵ And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?

⁴ Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:

²² Woe to the strong [ones] of you that drink wine, and the mighty [ones] that mingle strong drink:

⁷ For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is [their] vision.

¹¹ The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

⁵ [In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

¹⁵ Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees [of wine], and intoxicates [him], that he may look upon their secret parts. ¹⁶ Drink you also [your] fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon you, and dishonor has gathered upon your glory.

³⁸ of these sinners against their own souls, and do you make them beaten plates a covering to the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel.

²³ And king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, [if it be not] that Adonias has spoken this word against his own life.

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

¹⁴ The anger of a king is a messenger of death; but a wise man will pacify him. ¹⁵ The son of a king is in the light of life; and they that are in favor with him are as a cloud of latter rain.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for soothing will put an end to great offenses.

¹⁰ I will go after the Lord: he shall utter [his voice] as a lion: for he shall roar, and the children of the waters shall be amazed.

⁸ A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?

¹⁰ You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.

⁹ And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to your son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.

¹⁷ A passionate man acts inconsiderately; but a sensible man bears up under many things.

²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

³² A man slow to anger is better than a strong [man]; and he that governs [his] temper better than he that takes a city.

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

⁶ The lips of a fool bring [him] into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death.

¹¹ A merciful man is longsuffering; and his triumph overtakes transgressors.

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. ⁹ Whenever your friend shall reproach you, retreat backward, despise [him] not; ¹⁰ lest your friend continue to reproach you, so your quarrel and enmity shall not depart, but shall be to you like death. Favour and friendship set [a man] free, which do you keep for yourself, lest you be made liable to reproach; but take heed to your ways peaceably.

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.

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.

⁴ Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.

¹⁵ Cowardice possesses the effeminate [man]; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.

²⁴ He that unjustly hides his hands in his bosom, will not even [bring] them up to his mouth.

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

¹³ A sluggard when sent on a journey says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and [there are] murderers in the streets. ¹⁴ As a door turns on the hinge, so does a sluggard on his bed. ¹⁵ A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth. ¹⁶ A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.

⁶ who do establish the mountains in your strength, being girded about with power;

⁴ A word in the heart of a man is a deep water, and a river and fountain of life spring forth.

¹ (13) For the end, a Psalm of David. How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me?

¹⁴ As winds and clouds and rains are most evident [objects], so is he that boasts of a false gift.

² Let your neighbor, and not your own mouth, praise you; a stranger, and not your own lips.

²⁸ Behold, this have I found, said the Preacher, [seeking] by one at a time to find out the account,

¹ Run you⌃ about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you⌃ can find [one], if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

² For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders [his way] aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbor:

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.

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?

¹¹ Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of mine enemies.

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

²² A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.

² He that walks uprightly fears the Lord; but he that is perverse in his ways shall be dishonored.

¹⁵ He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

³ And the men of David said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judea; and how shall it be if we go to Keila? Shall we go after the spoils of the Philistines? ⁴ And David enquired yet again of the Lord; and the Lord answered him, and said to him, Arise and go down to Keila, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hands.

⁴ And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

⁴ For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and [they have] firmness under their affliction.

⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name.

⁶ I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; ⁷ I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof. ⁸ All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me.

¹² An evil-doer is an abomination to a king; for the throne of rule is established by righteousness.

²⁶ A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them.

⁵ Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.

¹⁴ When a king judges the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

¹ For, behold, a righteous king shall reign, and princes shall govern with judgment.

⁴⁶ [If it be] that they shall sin against you, (for there is not a man who will not sin,) and you shall bring them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take [them] captive shall carry [them] to a land far or near,

³⁶ Whereas if they shall sin against you, (for there is no man who will not sin,) and you shall strike them, and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take them captive shall carry them away into a land of enemies, to a land far off or near;

⁴ For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

¹⁴ For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?

⁴ For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

⁵ Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.

²⁰ Wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

³⁵ You⌃ shall not act unrighteously in judgment, in measures and weights and scales.

²⁵ You⌃ shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: you shall not covet [their] silver, neither shall you take to yourself gold from them, lest you should offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord your God. ²⁶ And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, so should you be an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly hate it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.

¹³ You shall not have in your bag various weights, a great and a small. ¹⁴ You shall not have in your house various measures, a great and a small. ¹⁵ You shall have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

¹ False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable to him.

¹¹ The poise of the balance is righteousness with the Lord; and his works are righteous measures.

²³ A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.

⁴ Hear now this, you⌃ that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth, ⁵ saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair? ⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit. ⁷ The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

¹⁰ [Is there] not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and [that] with the pride of unrighteousness? ¹¹ Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,

³ For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

⁸ To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.

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

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man, and who has made the very hard of hearing, and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? have not I, God?

⁹ where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

⁹ How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep?

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.

³⁰ A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard. ³¹ If you let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down. ³² Afterwards I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction. ³³ [The sluggard says, ]I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across [my] breast. ³⁴ But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.

⁶ And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snore you? arise, and call upon your God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

¹⁰ [Who is he] that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? it has already been in the ages that have passed before us.

⁷ [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize. ⁸ And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labors shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

¹² But whence has wisdom been discovered? and what is the place of knowledge? ¹³ A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men. ¹⁴ The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me. ¹⁵ One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it. ¹⁶ Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire. ¹⁷ Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange. ¹⁸ Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do you esteem wisdom above the most precious things. ¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equalled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold.

¹⁵ And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her: she is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value.

¹¹ For wisdom is better than precious stones; and no valuable substance is of equal worth with it.

²⁰ The tongue of the just is tried silver; but the heart of the ungodly shall fail. ²¹ The lips of the righteous know sublime [truths]: but the foolish die in lack.

⁷ The lips of the wise are bound by discretion: but the hearts of the foolish are not safe.

²³ A bad man will by no means attend to counsel; neither will he say anything seasonable, or good for the common [weal].

¹⁶ The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.

²¹ [Men] call the wise and understanding evil: but they that are pleasing in speech shall hear more.

²⁴ Good words are honeycombs, and the sweetness thereof is a healing of the soul.

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

⁹ And because the Preacher was wise above [others, so it was] that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables. ¹⁰ The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, [even] words of truth. ¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails firmly fastened, which have been given from one shepherd by agreement.

²⁶ And if you take your neighbor's garment for a pledge, you shall restore it to him before sunset. ²⁷ For this is his clothing, this is the only covering of his nakedness; wherein shall he sleep? If then he shall cry to me, I will listen to him, for I am merciful.

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,

³ for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:

⁵ that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.

¹⁰ and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.

¹⁵ A bad man does harm wherever he meets a just man: and he hates the sound of safety.

²⁶ Become not surety from respect of a man's person. ²⁷ For if those have not whence to give compensation, they will take the bed [that is] under you.

²⁷ For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.

¹³ Take away the man's garment, (for a scorner has passed by) whoever lays waste another's goods.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate. ⁷ And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.

¹² Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue; ¹³ though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat: ¹⁴ yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly. ¹⁵ [His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house. ¹⁶ And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue kill him. ¹⁷ Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter. ¹⁸ He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, [for] wealth of which he shall not taste: [it is] as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he can’t swallow. 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.

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

¹⁷ Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft. ¹⁸ But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix your eye upon her: for thus shall you go through strange water; but do you abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, that you may live long, and years of life may be added to you.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

¹⁵ VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall. ¹⁶ And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.

¹ And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Chananites, to fight against them? ² And the Lord said, Judas shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

²⁹ And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech, and I would say to him, Multiply your host, and come out.

⁷ Behold, all you⌃ [are] children of Israel; and consider and take counsel here among yourselves.

¹⁸ And they arose and went up to Baethel, and enquired of God: and the children of Israel said, Who shall go up for us first to fight with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Juda shall go up first as leader.

²³ And the children of Israel went up, and wept before the Lord till evening, and enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we again draw near to battle with our brethren the children of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Go up against them.

²⁶ And the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Baethel; and they wept, and sat there before the Lord; and they fasted on that day until evening, and offered whole burnt offerings and perfect sacrifices, before the Lord, ²⁷ for the ark of the Lord God [was] there in those days, ²⁸ and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those days; and the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we yet again go forth to fight with our brethren the sons of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Go up, to-morrow I will give them into your hands.

²⁶ And Abenner called Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour perpetually? know you not that it will be bitter at last? How long then will you refuse to tell the people to turn from following our brethren? ²⁷ And Joab said, As the Lord lives, if you had not spoken, even from the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

¹⁷ And Amasias king of Juda took counsel, and sent to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jeu, king of Israel, saying, Come, and let us look one another in the face. ¹⁸ And Joas king of Israel sent to Amasias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give your daughter to my son to wife; but, behold, your wild beasts of the field that are in Libanus shall come: and the wild beasts did come, and trod down the thistle. ¹⁹ You have said, Behold, I have struck Idumea, and your stout heart exalts you: now stay at home; for why do you implicate yourself in mischief, that you should fall, and Juda with you. ²⁰ Nevertheless Amasias listened not, for it was of the Lord to deliver him into [the enemy's] hands, because he sought after the gods of the Idumeans. ²¹ So Joas king of Israel went up; and they saw one another, he and Amasias king of Juda, in Baethsamys, which is of Juda. ²² And Juda was put to flight before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. ²³ And Joas king of Israel took prisoner Amasias king of Juda, [son] of Joas, son of Joachaz, in Baethsamys, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he pulled down [part] of the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

¹⁴ They that have no guidance fall like leaves: but in much counsel there is safety.

²² They that honor not councils put off deliberation; but counsel abides in the hearts of counselors.

⁶ War is carried on with generalship, and aid is supplied to the heart of a counsellor.

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

¹⁶ You shall not walk deceitfully among your people; you shall not rise up against the blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord your God.

¹³ A double-tongued man discloses the [secret] counsels of an assembly: but he that is faithful in spirit conceals matters.

³ He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: but he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself.

²⁹ A transgressor tries [to ensnare] friends, and leads them in ways [that are] not good.

⁸ Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.

²¹ [My] son, fear God and the king; and do not disobey either of them.

²⁰ With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases. ²¹ A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife. ²² The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they strike [even] to the inmost parts of the bowels.

¹² Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the good land, which the Lord your God gives to you.

¹⁷ Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.

⁹ Every man who shall speak evil of his father or of his mother, let him die the death; has he spoken evil of his father or his mother? he shall be guilty.

¹⁶ Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it.

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.

¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

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.

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

¹¹ A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

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.

⁴ If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man; but refrain yourself in your wisdom.

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.

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.

⁴ And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

² If you⌃ will not listen, and if you⌃ will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yes, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because you⌃ lay not this to heart.

³⁵ In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction [is] near to them, and the judgments at hand are close upon you.

¹² If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day.

¹³ Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not be removed from his house.

²⁹ Say not, As he has treated me, so will I treat him, and I will avenge myself on him for that wherein he has injured me.

³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

²⁵ TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him ²⁶ [is] good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

¹⁰ A large and small weight, and various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and [so is] he that makes them.

¹⁰ You⌃ shall have a just balance, and a just measure, and a just choenix for measure.

⁷ [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

⁵ saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?

⁴ I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors.

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

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; but the folly of fools leads astray.

⁶ I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust. ⁷ But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and [that] to destroy nations not a few.

²³ I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

²³ And you has been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, and your nobles, and your mistresses, and your concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and you has praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are your breath, and all your ways has you not glorified.

¹⁵ The soul which shall be really unconscious, and shall sin unwillingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, shall even bring to the Lord for his transgression, a ram of the flock without blemish, valued according to shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for his [transgression] wherein he transgressed.

¹⁰ And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns with a priest, or a hireling, shall not eat the holy things. ¹¹ But if a priest should have a soul purchased for money, he shall eat of his bread; and they that are born in his house, they also shall eat of his bread. ¹² And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the offerings of the sanctuary. ¹³ And if the daughter of priest should be a widow, or put away, and have no seed, she shall return to her father's house, as in her youth: she shall eat of her father's bread, but no stranger shall eat of it. ¹⁴ And the man who shall ignorantly eat holy things, shall add the fifth part to it, and give the holy thing to the priest. ¹⁵ And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord.

⁹ And if it be from the cattle that are offered as a gift to the Lord, whoever shall offer one of these to the Lord, it shall be holy. ¹⁰ He shall not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he do at all change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall be holy.

³⁰ Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord's, holy to the Lord. ³¹ And if a man should at all redeem his tithe, he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his.

² And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the Lord has commanded. ³ Whatsoever man shall vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with an obligation upon his soul, he shall not break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do. ⁴ And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father's house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, ⁵ and all the obligations with which she has bound her soul, shall remain to her. ⁶ But if her father straitly forbid [her] in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her. ⁷ But if she should be indeed married, and her vows be upon her according to the utterance of her lips, [the obligations] which she has contracted upon her soul; ⁸ and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her in the day in which he should hear, then thus shall all her vows be binding, and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand. ⁹ But if her husband should straitly forbid [her] in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless. ¹⁰ And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatever she shall bind upon her soul, shall stand to her. ¹¹ And if her vow [be made] in the house of her husband, or the obligation upon her soul with an oath, ¹² and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and all the obligations which she contracted against her soul, shall stand against her. ¹³ But if her husband should utterly cancel the vow in the day in which he shall hear it, none of the things which shall proceed out of her lips in her vows, and in the obligations [contracted] upon her soul, shall stand to her; her husband has cancelled them, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless. ¹⁴ Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband shall confirm it to her, or her husband shall cancel it. ¹⁵ But if he be wholly silent at her from day to day, then shall he bind upon her all her vows; and he shall confirm to her the obligations [which she has bound] upon herself, because he held his peace at her in the day in which he heard her. ¹⁶ And if her husband should in any wise cancel [them] after the day in which he heard [them], then he shall bear his iniquity.

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

⁴ [It is] better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. ⁵ Suffer not your mouth to lead your flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at your voice, and destroy the works of your hands. ⁶ For [there is evil] in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear you God.

⁸ Will a man insult God? for you⌃ insult me. But you⌃ say, Wherein have we insulted you? In that the tithes and first fruits are with you [still]. ⁹ And you⌃ do surely look off from me, and you⌃ insult me. ¹⁰ The year is completed, and you⌃ have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, [see] if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until you⌃ are satisfied.

⁹ And David answered and Rechab and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them, [As] the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all affliction; ¹⁰ he that reported to me that Saul was dead, even he was as one bringing glad tidings before me: but I seized him and killed him in Sekelac, to whom I ought, [as he thought], to have given a reward for his tidings. ¹¹ And now evil men have slain a righteous men in his house on his bed: now then I will require his blood of your hand, and I will destroy you from off the earth. ¹² And David commanded his young men, and they kill them, and cut off their hands and their feet; and they hung them up at the fountain in Chebron: and they buried the head of Jebosthe in the tomb of Abenezer the son of Ner.

³¹ And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under iron harrows, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

⁸ Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.

²⁷ For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread; ²⁸ for I will not be angry with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you.

⁷ And God formed the man [of] dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

⁸ but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

³⁰ Bruises and contusions befall bad men; and plagues [shall come] in the inward parts of [their] belly.

⁷ All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with [their] lips, they shook the head, [saying],

⁷ In God [is] my salvation and my glory: [he is] the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

¹ (102) A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.

⁵ And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hasting righteousness.

³² You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.

³¹ Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

²³ Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; ²⁴ but let him that boasts boast in this, the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and righteousness, upon the earth; for in these things is my pleasure, says the Lord.

²⁵ When a pestilent character is scourged, a simple man is made wiser: and if you reprove a wise man, he will understand discretion.

⁹ Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

⁵ But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; [and] by his bruises we were healed.