Proverbs 21 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Like brooks of water is a king’s heart in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever it pleaseth him doth he turn it. ² Every way of a man is straight in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the hearts. ³ To exercise righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. ⁴ Haughtiness of the eyes, and an immoderate heart, are the sinful field of the wicked. ⁵ The plans of the diligent tend only to plenty; but every hasty man is destined only to want. ⁶ The getting of treasures by a tongue of falsehood is like the fleeting breath of those that seek death. ⁷ The robbery of the wicked will drag them away; because they refuse to execute justice. ⁸ Perverse is the way of the man that is estranged from goodness; but as for the pure, his work is upright. ⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, than with a quarrelsome woman in a roomy house. ¹⁰ The soul of the wicked longeth for evil: his neighbor findeth no grace in his eyes. ¹¹ When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is taught intelligence, he receiveth knowledge. ¹² The righteous regardeth attentively the house of the wicked; but God overturneth the wicked into unhappiness. ¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ears against the cry of the poor, he also will cry himself, but shall not be answered. ¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a bribe in the bosom, strong fury. ¹⁵ It is joy to the righteous to execute justice; but it is a terror to wrong-doers. ¹⁶ The man that wandereth astray out of the way of intelligence shall rest in the assembly of the departed. ¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure will be a man of want: he that loveth wine and oil will not become rich. ¹⁸ The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous shall be put in the stead of the upright. ¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a quarrelsome and vexatious woman. ²⁰ There are a desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man will swallow it up. ²¹ He that pursueth righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor. ²² A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength in which they trusted. ²³ Whoso guardeth his mouth and his tongue guardeth his soul against distresses. ²⁴ The presumptuous and proud, scorner is his name, dealeth in the wrath of presumption. ²⁵ The longing of the slothful will kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. ²⁶ All the day he feeleth a great longing; but the righteous giveth and withholdeth not. ²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a sinful purpose? ²⁸ A lying witness shall perish; but the man that is obedient to the law can speak for ever. ²⁹ A wicked man showeth impudence in his face; but as for the upright, he will consider well his way. ³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. ³¹ The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but with the Lord is the victory.

⁵ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

¹² And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

²⁹ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot away out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

²⁰ And say ye moreover, Behold, also thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will receive me kindly.

¹¹ And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this: take of the best products of the land in your vessels, and carry down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and lotus, pistachio-nuts and almonds;

¹ Thou shalt not receive a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up also.

^{11 (13:12)} And all Israel shall hear it, and they shall be afraid, and they shall not do any more such a wicked deed as this is in the midst of thee.

⁷ If there be among thee a needy man, any one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother. ⁸ But thou shalt open wide thy hand unto him, and thou shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, which his want requireth. ⁹ Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thy eye be thus evil against thy needy brother, so that thou wouldst give him nought; and if he cry concerning thee unto the Lord, it will be sin in thee: ¹⁰ Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; for because of this thing the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all the acquisition of thy hand. ¹¹ For the needy will not cease out of the land; therefore do I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open wide thy hand unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

¹⁶ If a witness of violence rise up against any man to testify against him for any wrong: ¹⁷ Then shall both the men, who have the controversy, stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days; ¹⁸ And the judges shall inquire diligently; and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, he hath testified a falsehood against his brother: ¹⁹ Then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and be afraid.

¹² And I said, The Philistines will now come down unto me to Gilgal, and I have not yet made supplication unto the Lord: wherefore I forced myself, and offered the burnt-offering. ¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he had commanded thee; for now would the Lord have established thy government over Israel for ever.

²¹ And the people took of the spoil, of the flocks and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal. ²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as much delight in burnt-offerings and in sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to attend more than the fat of the rams.

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as much delight in burnt-offerings and in sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to attend more than the fat of the rams. ²³ For the sin of witchcraft is rebellion, and idolatry and image-worship, stubbornness; inasmuch as thou hast despised the word of the Lord, he hath also despised thee that thou shalt not be king.

⁷ But the Lord said unto Samuel, Regard not his appearance, nor the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for not what man looketh on;—for man looketh on the eyes, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

⁸ Ask thy young men, and they will tell it thee. Therefore let the young men find favor in thy eyes; for on a festive day are we come: give, I pray thee, whatsoever thy hand is capable of unto thy servants, and to thy son, to David. ⁹ And David’s young men came, and they spoke to Nabal in accordance with all these words in the name of David; and then they ceased. ¹⁰ And Nabal answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? now-a-days there are many servants that break away every one from his master. ¹¹ Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my sheep-shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they are?

³⁵ And David took out of her hand that which she had brought him; and unto her he said, Go up in peace to thy house: see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have respected thy presence.

⁶ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land; who said unto David, as followeth, Thou shalt not come in hither, except thou first remove away the blind and the lame: meaning, David cannot come in hither. ⁷ Nevertheless David captured the strong-hold of Zion; the same is the city of David. ⁸ And David said on that day, Whosoever will smite the Jebusites, and reach the aqueduct and the lame and the blind, that are hateful to David’s soul,—Wherefore people usually say, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. ⁹ And David dwelt in the fort, and he called it “The City of David.” And David built it round about from the Millo and inward.

¹⁶ Then called a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear: say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near as far as hither, that I may speak with thee. ¹⁷ And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he said, I am. Then said she unto him, Hear the words of thy hand-maid. And he said, I do hear. ¹⁸ Then said she, thus, They ought surely first to have spoken, saying, “Let them ask at least in Abel:” and so would they have come to an end. ¹⁹ I am one of the peaceful and faithful cities in Israel; thou seekest to overthrow a city and a metropolis in Israel: why wilt thou destroy the inheritance of the Lord? ²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should destroy or ruin. ²¹ The matter is not so; but a man from the mountains of Ephraim, Sheba’ the son of Bichri is his name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David: give him up alone, and I will withdraw from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be cast down to thee over the wall. ²² And the woman came unto all the people with her wisdom; and they cut off the head of Sheba’ the son of Bichri, and cast it down to Joab: and he blew the cornet, and they scattered themselves from the city, every man to his tents. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

²² And they celebrated the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Asshur toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

²⁷ Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put the like of this in the heart of the king, to glorify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; ²⁸ And who hath extended kindness unto me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the mighty princes of the king: and I strengthened myself according to the hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel principal men to go up with me.

¹¹ I beseech thee, O Lord, do let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who are desirous to fear thy name; and grant success, I pray thee, to thy servant this day, and let him find mercy in the sight of this man—But I was butler by the king.

⁴ Then said the king unto me, For what then dost thou make request? Then did I pray to the God of heaven.

¹ And there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. ² And there were some that said, Our sons, and our daughters, and ourselves are many; and we must buy corn, that we may eat, and live. ³ And others there were that said, We must pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses, that we may buy corn, in the famine. ⁴ And others there were that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brethren, our children are like their children: and, lo, we must force our sons and our daughters to become servants, and some of our daughters are forced to become so, and our hand is powerless; and our fields and our vineyards belong to others.

¹³ Also my lap did I shake out, and said, So may God shake out every man that performeth not this promise, from his house and of his toil-gotten wealth, and so let him remain shaken out, and empty. And all the assembly said, Amen, and they praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.

⁵ And when Haman saw that Mordecai bent not the knee, nor prostrated himself to him, Haman became full of fury. ⁶ But it appeared too contemptible in his eyes to lay his hand on Mordecai alone: for they had told him of the people of Mordecai: therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout all the kingdom of Achashverosh, the people of Mordecai.

³ I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed.

¹⁵ He leaneth against his house, but it shall not stand: he layeth fast hold on it, but it shall not remain erect.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, in his holy ones he putteth no trust; and the heavens are not pure in his eyes: ¹⁶ How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?

¹⁴ Then will be plucked up out of his tent his confidence, and the evil will urge him forward to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation. ¹⁶ Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away. ¹⁷ His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets. ¹⁸ Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him. ¹⁹ He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning. ²⁰ Because of his calamitous day are they that come after him astonished, and they that went before are seized with shuddering. ²¹ Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.

¹⁵ The wealth which he hath swallowed, will he have to vomit up again; God will drive it out of his belly.

¹⁸ He restoreth what he hath labored for, and will not swallow it down; however much he may have obtained by toil, he will not have any joy of it.

²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? and where is the tent of the dwelling-places of the wicked? ²⁹ Have ye not asked the wayfarers? surely their token ye cannot disregard, ³⁰ That the bad man is reserved for the day of calamity, that the wicked are carried forward to the day of wrath.

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the portion of tyrants, which they shall receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is only for the sword; and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those of his that are left to escape will be buried by death; and his widows will not be able to weep. ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare garments as plentifully as the clay: ¹⁷ He may prepare, but the righteous will clothe himself therewith, and the silver the innocent will divide. ¹⁸ He buildeth his house like the moth, and like a hut that a keeper hath made. ¹⁹ Rich will he lie down, but will not be gathered into the grave: one openeth his eyes, and he is no more. ²⁰ Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away. ²¹ The east wind will lift him up, and he must be gone; and it hurleth him like a storm out of his place. ²² And God will cast evil upon him, and bare no pity: out of his hand his wealth will surely escape. ²³ Men will clap their hands over him, and will hiss after him out of his place.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me. ¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate. ¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.

¹ BOOK FIRST: Happy is the man who walketh not in the council of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

^{3 (3:4)} But thou, O Lord, art a shield around me, my glory, and he that lifteth up my head.

^{8 (3:9)} Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah.

^{16 (7:17)} His mischief will return upon his own head, and upon his own skull will his violence come down.

^{16 (9:17)} The Lord is made known: he executed justice: through the doing of his own hands is the wicked ensnared. Higgayon, Selah.

⁴ The wicked, according to the pride of his wrathfulness, saith, He will not require, There is no God in all his plans.

² The Lord looketh down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be one intelligent, one who seeketh for God. ³ They are all gone aside, they are altogether become corrupt: there is none that doth good, no, not even one.

^{41 (18:42)} They cry, but there is none to help; unto the Lord,—but he answereth them not.

^{7 (20:8)} Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will invoke the name of the Lord our God.

⁵ Thou preparest before me a table in the presence of my assailants; thou anointest with oil my head: my cup overfloweth.

¹⁷ Vain is the horse for victory: nor shall he deliver any by the greatness of his strength. ¹⁸ Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those that fear him, upon those that hope for his kindness.

^{2 (36:3)} For he flattereth himself in his own eyes too much to find out his iniquity to hate it.

^{4 (36:5)} He deviseth wickedness upon his couch; he placeth himself on a way that is not good; evil he despiseth not.

²⁶ He is all the time beneficent, and lendeth: and his seed will be for a blessing.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible in power, and striking root like a green tree in its native soil. ³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was no more: and I sought him, but he could not be found.

^{8 (40:9)} To fulfill thy will, O my God, do I desire; and thy law is within my heart.

^{14 (49:15)} Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, taken away from their own dwelling.

⁸ Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

⁸ Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me. ⁹ I will not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. ¹⁰ For mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains. ¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it. ¹³ Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?

^{2 (52:4)} Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs, like a sharpened razor, thou worker of deceit. ^{3 (52:5)} Thou lovest evil more than good; falsehood more than speaking righteousness. Selah.

^{5 (52:7)} Therefore God will also destroy thee for ever: he will take thee away, and pluck thee out of his tent, and root thee out of the land of life. Selah.—

^{6 (55:7)} And I said, Oh that some one would give me wings like a dove! I would fly away and dwell quietly. ^{7 (55:8)} Lo, I would flee far away, I would spend my night in the wilderness. Selah.

^{4 (58:5)} They have poison like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

^{7 (64:8)} But God shooteth at them suddenly his arrow;—thence are come their wounds. ^{8 (64:9)} And their own tongues will stumble over themselves: all that look on them will shake their head. ^{9 (64:10)} All men shall fear, and shall declare the deeds of God, and understand his works.

^{20 (68:21)} Our God is to us the God of salvation: and by the Eternal the Lord are the escapes from death.

¹⁵ Thou didst cleave fountain and stream: thou didst dry up ever-flowing rivers.

⁴ But more than the noise of great waters, than the mighty billows of the sea, is the Lord excellent on high.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilely with his servants.

⁴⁶ And be caused them to find mercy before all those that had carried them away captive.

⁴³ Whoever is wise, let him observe these things, and let all understand the kindness of the Lord.

¹ Hallelujah. Happy is the man that feareth the Lord, that greatly delighteth in his commandments.

³ Plenty and riches shall be in his house, and his righteousness shall endure for ever.

⁵ Well will it be with the man who is kind, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with justice.

⁹ He distributeth, he giveth to the needy: his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted in honor.

³ The sea beheld it, and fled: the Jordan was driven backward.

⁵ What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? thou, O Jordan, that thou art driven backward?

⁵ Oh that my ways were firmly directed to observe thy statutes!

¹⁶ In thy statutes will I seek my delight: I will not forget thy word.

⁵⁹ I have thought over my ways, and made my feet return unto thy testimonies.

⁹² Unless thy law had been my delights, I should long since have been lost in my affliction.

⁵ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! ⁶ Too long for herself hath my soul dwelt with him that hateth peace.

⁵ But as for those who turn aside unto their crooked ways, them will the Lord drive away with the workers of wickedness; but peace shall be upon Israel.

¹⁰ Thou art he that giveth victory unto kings: who riddeth David his servant from the evil-bringing sword.

¹⁰ Not in the strength of the horse hath he delight: nor in the swiftness of the legs of man taketh he pleasure.

⁵ The wise will hear, and will increase his information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels:

¹⁸ While they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch in concealment for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the paths of every one that is greedy after unlawful gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

²⁸ Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me;

¹⁵ Who as regardeth their paths are crooked, and froward in their tracks.

¹⁸ For she sinketh unto death—her house, and unto the departed lead her tracks. ¹⁹ All that come unto her return not again, and they will not reach the paths of life.

²⁹ Contrive not against thy neighbor any evil, when he dwelleth in safety with thee.

¹⁰ That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, in the house of an alien: ¹¹ While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,

²⁰ And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; look on her ways, and become wise. ⁷ She, that hath no prince, officer, or ruler, ⁸ Provideth in the summer her provision, gathereth in harvest-time her food. ⁹ How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie down? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰ “A little more sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands in lying down;” ¹¹ But then will thy poverty come like a rover, and thy want as a man armed with a shield.

¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a tongue of falsehood, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁹ A false witness that eagerly uttereth lies, and him that scattereth abroad discord among brethren.

²⁶ For many deadly wounded hath she caused to fall: yea, very numerous are all those slain by her. ²⁷ The ways to the nether world is her house leading down to the chambers of death.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogance, and the evil way: and the mouth of perverseness do I hate.

³⁶ But he that sinneth against me doth violence to his own soul: all those that hate me love death.

⁹ Give to the wise instruction, and he will become yet wiser: impart knowledge to the righteous, and he will increase his information.

¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the departed are there; that in the depths of the nether world are her guests.

² Treasures of wickedness will not profit aught; but righteousness will deliver from death.

⁴ He becometh poor that laboreth with an indolent hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

⁶ Blessings come upon the head of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.

¹⁹ In a multitude of words transgression cannot be avoided; but he that refraineth his lips is intelligent.

²² The blessing of the Lord it is which maketh rich, and painful labor addeth nothing thereto.

²⁹ The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright; but terror is destined to the workers of injustice.

³ The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the cunning of the treacherous destroyeth them. ⁴ Wealth cannot profit on the day of wrath; but righteousness deliver from death. ⁵ The righteousness of the perfect maketh even his way; but by his own wickedness will the wicked fall.

⁵ The righteousness of the perfect maketh even his way; but by his own wickedness will the wicked fall.

⁸ The righteous is delivered out of distress, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but as rottenness in his bones is one that bringeth shame on him.

¹² The wicked is covetous for the net of evil men; but God giveth root to the righteous. ¹³ In the transgression of his lips is the snare of the wicked; but the righteous cometh out of distress.

¹⁹ The lip of truth will stand firm for ever; but only for a moment the tongue of falsehood.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent will bear rule; but the indolent must become tributary.

²⁷ The indolent roasteth not that which he hath caught in hunting; but the most precious wealth of man is diligence.

³ He that watcheth his mouth guardeth his soul; but he that openeth wide his lips prepareth himself destruction. ⁴ The sluggard longeth in his soul, and there cometh nothing; but the soul of the diligent will be abundantly gratified.

⁶ Righteousness keepeth him that is upright on his way; but wickedness perverteth the man of sin.

¹¹ Wealth gotten by vain deeds will be diminished; but he that gathereth by close labor will increase it.

²⁰ He that walketh with wise men will become wise; but he that associateth with fools will be destroyed.

¹¹ The house of the wicked will be destroyed: but the tent of the upright will flourish.

²⁹ He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit holdeth up to view his folly.

³² Through his own evil is the wicked thrust down; but even in his death doth the righteous have confidence.

⁶ In the house of the righteous there is much treasure; but in the income of the wicked is trouble.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of the Lord: but, the prayer of the upright obtaineth his favor. ⁹ An abomination of the Lord is the way of the wicked; but him that pursueth righteousness will he love.

¹⁴ The heart of the man of understanding seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.

¹⁷ Better is an allowance of herbs when love is there, than a stall-fed ox and hatred therewith.

¹⁹ The way of the slothful man is like a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is a levelled road.

²⁶ An abomination of the Lord are the thoughts of the bad man; but pleasant speeches are pure before him.

¹ Unto man belong the resolves of the heart; but from the Lord cometh the expression of the tongue. ² Every one of the ways of a man is pure in his own eyes; but the Lord measureth the spirits.

⁹ A man’s heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth firmly his steps.

¹⁸ Before downfall goeth pride, and before stumbling, haughtiness of spirit.

²⁵ There is many a way which seemeth even before a man, but its end are the ways unto death.

¹ Better is a piece of dry bread, and quiet therewith, than a house full of the sacrifices of contention.

⁸ As a precious stone appeareth a bribe in the eyes of him that obtaineth it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

²³ A wicked man taketh a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of justice.

²⁷ He that holdeth back his speeches hath knowledge; and he that is sparing of his spirit is a man of understanding. ²⁸ Even a fool, when he keepeth silence, is counted wise: he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

¹ He that separateth himself from God seeketh his own desires: at every sound wisdom is he enraged.

¹² Before downfall the heart of man becometh haughty, and before honor goeth humility.

¹⁵ The heart of the man of understanding will obtain knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge. ¹⁶ A man’s gift maketh room for him, and before great men will it lead him.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it will eat its fruit.

⁵ A false witness shall not remain unpunished, and he that uttereth lies shall not escape. ⁶ Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; and every one is the friend to him that bestoweth gifts.

⁹ A false witness shall not remain unpunished, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.

¹³ A calamity unto his father is a foolish son; and a continual dropping are the quarrels of a wife.

²¹ There are many thoughts in a man’s heart; but the counsel of the Lord alone will stand firm.

²⁴ When a slothful man hath hidden his hand in the dish, then will he not even bring it back to his mouth. ²⁵ Smite a scorner, and the simple will become prudent; and if one that hath understanding be admonished, he will understand knowledge.

²⁹ Punishments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

⁴ Because it is winter’s cold, will the sluggard not plough: when he therefore seeketh in the harvest time, there will be nothing.

⁶ Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but who can find a faithful man?

¹⁴ It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then doth he boast.

²¹ An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning will at its end not be blessed,

²⁴ From the Lord are the steps of man ordained; but man—how can he understand his own way?

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, than with a quarrelsome woman in a roomy house.

¹² The righteous regardeth attentively the house of the wicked; but God overturneth the wicked into unhappiness. ¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ears against the cry of the poor, he also will cry himself, but shall not be answered.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a quarrelsome and vexatious woman. ²⁰ There are a desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man will swallow it up. ²¹ He that pursueth righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a sinful purpose?

⁴ The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor, and life.

⁸ He that soweth injustice will reap wrong-doing; and the rod of God’s wrath will not fail.

¹³ The slothful saith, There is a lion without, in the midst of the streets shall I be murdered.

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither crush the afflicted in the gate; ²³ For the Lord will plead their cause, and despoil the life of those that despoil them.

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth a man in rags.

⁵ A wise man is always in power; and a man of knowledge fortifieth his strength.

¹² If thou shouldst say, Behold, we know not this man: lo, he that weigheth hearts will truly regard it, and he that keepeth thy soul will surely know it; and he will give a recompense to man according to his doing.

³⁰ By the field of a slothful man I once passed along, and by the vineyard of a man void of sense: ³¹ And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, nettles had covered its surface, and its stone-wall was broken down. ³² And when I had indeed beheld this I took it to my heart: I saw it, and received a warning. ³³ “A little more sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands in lying down;” ³⁴ But then will thy poverty come like a rover; and thy wants as a man armed with a shield.

¹⁸ A battle-axe, and a sword, and a sharpened arrow is a man that testifieth as a false witness against his neighbor.

²⁴ It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof, than with a quarrelsome woman even in a roomy house.

¹³ The slothful saith, There is a leopard in the way: a lion is between the streets.

¹⁶ The slothful is wiser in his own eyes, than seven men that can give wise answers.

¹⁵ A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ¹⁶ He that would conceal her might conceal the wind, and as fragrant oil on his right hand, which would betray itself.

²³ Endeavor to know well the appearance of thy flocks, direct thy attention to thy herds; ²⁴ For property endureth not for ever, nor doth the crown remain for all generations. ²⁵ When the grass is past, young verdure showeth itself, and then are gathered the herbs of the mountains. ²⁶ The sheep are for thy clothing, and he-goats are the purchase-price of a field. ²⁷ And thou wilt have enough of goats’ milk for thy food, for the food of thy household, and the support for thy maidens.

⁹ When one turneth away his ear so as not to listen to the law, even his prayer becometh an abomination.

¹⁴ Happy is the man that always dreadeth to do evil; but he that hardeneth his heart will fall into unhappiness.

²² He that is eager for wealth is a man of an evil eye, and he knoweth not that want will come upon him.

²⁷ He that giveth unto the poor will not have any want; but he that hideth his eyes will have an abundance of curses.

¹ A man that, having received many admonitions, still hardeneth his neck, will suddenly be broken, and this without remedy.

⁸ Vanity and lying words do thou remove far from me: neither poverty nor riches give thou unto me; let me eat the bread appointed unto me:

¹² There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed clean of its filthiness. ¹³ There is a generation—O how lofty are its eyes! and its eyelids are so lifted up.

¹² I know that there is nothing good inherent in them, but for every one to rejoice and to do what is good during all his life.

^{19 (5:18)} Also every man to whom God hath given riches and property, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: better is the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit. ⁹ Be not rash in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in bosom of fools.

¹¹ Wisdom is better than an inheritance, yea, preferable for those that see the sun;

¹⁹ Wisdom giveth more strength to the wise than ten rulers which were in the city.

²⁹ Lo, this only did I find, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought for many sinful devices.

³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.

¹¹ I turned about, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; and that also the wise have no bread, nor yet the men of understanding riches, nor yet men of knowledge favor; but time and fate will overtake them all.

¹³ Also in this manner have I seen wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: ¹⁴ There was a little city, and the men therein were few; and there came against it a great king, who enclosed it, and built around it great works of siege; ¹⁵ But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; yet no man had thought of that same poor man. ¹⁶ Then said I, Wisdom is better than might: although the poor man’s wisdom is held in contempt, and his words are not heard. ¹⁷ The words of wise men heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. ¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner causes much good to be lost.

¹⁹ For gay pleasure they prepare a feast, and wine is to make the living joyful; but money procureth all things.

¹¹ For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he-goats, I do not desire.

¹¹ For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he-goats, I do not desire. ¹² When ye come to appear in my presence—who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts?

¹² When ye come to appear in my presence—who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts? ¹³ Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering.

¹³ Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them,

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them, ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil; ¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

²³ Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will take satisfaction on my adversaries, and be avenged on my enemies.

¹¹ The looks of human pride shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bent down: and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day.

¹⁷ And the pride of man shall be bent down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled: and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day.

¹⁶ And the Lord said, Forasmuch as the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched forth necks and casting about their eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

⁵ Forasmuch as Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remalyahu, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, ⁶ Let us go up against Judah, and besiege it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up as king in the midst of it the son of Tabeal: ⁷ Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, It shall not succeed, and it shall not come to pass.

⁹ Associate yourselves, O ye people, yet shall ye be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of the far portions of the earth: gird yourselves, yet shall ye be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, yet shall ye be broken in pieces. ¹⁰ Take counsel together, yet shall it come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand firm; for with us is God.

²⁷ For the Lord of hosts hath resolved, and who shall frustrate it? and it is his hand which is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; that he is very proud: of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath, his groundless lies.

¹ Woe to those that go down to Egypt for help; and depend for support on horses, and trust on chariots, because they are many; and on horsemen, because they are very strong; but who turn not unto the Holy One of Israel, and seek not the Lord!

⁶ For the worthless person ever speaketh villany, and his heart will work injustice, to practise hypocrisy, and to speak error against the Lord, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty will he take away. ⁷ The instruments also of the avaricious man are evil: he deviseth wicked resolves to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy speaketh what is right. ⁸ But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and he ever persisteth by liberal things.

³ For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt for thy ransom, Cush and Seba in place of thee. ⁴ Since thou art precious in my eyes, art honorable, and I indeed do love thee: therefore will I give men in place of thee, and nations instead of thy soul.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; will ye not acknowledge it? I will even make in the wilderness a way, and in the desert rivers.

²⁷ That saith to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers will I dry up;

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the end, and from the earliest days the things that have not yet been done, saying, My counsel shall stand firm, and all my pleasure will I do: ¹¹ Calling from the east the eagle, from a far-off country the man of my counsel; yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also execute it.

¹ Hearken to me, ye that pursue righteousness, that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were dug up.

⁴ But only our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains he carried: while we indeed esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ Yet he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace was upon him; and through his bruises was healing granted to us.

⁸ For not my thoughts are your thoughts, and not your ways are my ways, saith the Lord. ⁹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

⁶ Is not this rather the fast that I will choose? to open the snares of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye should break asunder every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the afflicted poor into thy house! when thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him; and that thou hide not thyself from thy own flesh? ⁸ Then shall break forth as the morning-dawn thy light, and thy healing shall speedily spring forth; and before thee shall go thy righteousness, the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. ⁹ Then shalt thou call, and the Lord will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here am I. If thou remove from the midst of thee the yoke, the stretching out of the finger, and speaking wickedly;

^{5 (64:4)} Thou acceptest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, for we had sinned on them continually; and can we thus be saved?

³ He that slaughtereth the ox, slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, breaketh the neck of a dog; he that offereth a meat-offering, offereth swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, blesseth an idol: yea, they have made choice of their own ways, and in their abominations doth their soul delight.

² Lift up thy eyes unto the mountain-tops, and see where thou hast not been lain with. On public roads hast thou sat for them, as the Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy incests and with thy wickedness. ³ And though the early showers were withholden, and the latter rain came not: yet hadst thou a forehead of an incestuous wife, thou refusedst to feel shame.

²³ Truly deceptive was what we hoped for from the hills, and the multitude on the mountains; truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

³ O Lord, are not thy eyes directed to the truth? thou didst strike them, but they felt it not; thou didst make an end of them, yet they refused to accept correction: they made their faces harder than a rock, they refused to return.

²⁰ To what purpose serveth me the frankincense which cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far-off country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not agreeable unto me.

⁹ How? will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Ba’al, and walk after other gods of which ye have no knowledge; ¹⁰ And then come and stand before my presence in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are delivered;” in order to do all these abominations? ¹¹ Is then this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? But I also, behold, I have seen it, saith the Lord.

¹¹ Is then this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? But I also, behold, I have seen it, saith the Lord. ¹² For go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did unto it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹⁵ And I will cast you out of my presence, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.

²¹ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Add your burnt-offerings unto your peace-sacrifices, and eat the flesh thereof. ²² For I spoke not with your fathers, and I commanded them not on the day of my bringing them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offering or sacrifice; ²³ But this thing did I command them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be unto you for a God, and ye shall be unto me for a people; and walk ye altogether on the way which I may command you, in order that it may be well unto you.

¹² They should have been ashamed, because they had committed abomination; but they neither felt the least shame, nor did they know how to blush: therefore shall they fall among those that fall; at the time of their punishment shall they stumble, saith the Lord.

^{2 (9:1)} Oh that one would place me in the wilderness in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

^{23 (9:22)} Thus hath said the Lord, Let not the wise glorify himself in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glorify himself in his might, let not the rich glorify himself in his riches;

¹⁰ I the Lord search the heart, probe the reins: yea, to give unto every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. ¹¹ As a cuckoo that sitteth on eggs which he hath not laid, so is he that get the riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be called wicked.

¹⁶ But ye have turned again, and profaned my name, and ye have brought back every man his man-servant, and every man his woman-servant, whom ye had dismissed as free at their pleasure, and have subjected them to be unto you for men-servants and for women-servants. ¹⁷ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Ye indeed have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim freedom, every one to his brother, and every one to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a freedom over you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁸ But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have some things hidden in the field, such as wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. So he forbore, and slew them not in the midst of their brethren.

¹⁶ Respecting the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. ¹⁷ For to a surety we will do all the word that is gone forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: when we had plenty of food, and fared well, and saw no evil.

²⁹ We have heard the pride of Moab, who is so exceedingly proud, his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the overbearingness of his heart.

¹⁸ His father, because he unjustly withheld wages, was guilty of robbery on his brother, and did that which is not good in the midst of his people,—and lo, he died through his iniquity.

²⁸ Because he hath considered, and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

³¹ Cast away from yourselves all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

¹³ And behold, I have struck my hands together at thy wrongful gain which thou hast acquired, and at thy blood-guilt which hath been in the midst of thee. ¹⁴ Will thy courage endure, or will thy hands remain strong, on the days that I will deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

^{35 (4:32)} And by whom all the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nought; and who according to his pleasure doth with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth; while there is none that can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

¹⁰ Many shall be selected and cleansed, and purified; but the wicked will deal wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand: but the intelligent will understand.

³ And let us feel it, that we may strive to know the Lord; bright as the morning-dawn is his rising; and he will come as the rain unto us, as the latter rain that maketh fruitful the earth.”

⁶ For piety I desired, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt-offerings.

^{9 (14:10)} Who is wise, that he may understand these things? intelligent, that he may know them? for righteous are the ways of the Lord; and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors will stumble through them.

¹¹ I had produced an overthrow among you, like the overthrow by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye became like a fire-brand snatched out of the burning: and yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

²¹ I hate, I despise your feast-days, and I will not smell the sacrifices on your festive assemblies. ²² For though ye should offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings, I will not accept them in favor: and the peace-offerings of your fatted cattle will I not look at.

¹³ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous around them.

² But they are those who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and who crush their bones, and chop them in pieces, as that to be put in a pot, and as flesh within a caldron.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and make crooked all that is straight. ¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood-guiltiness, and Jerusalem with wrong. ¹¹ Her heads judge for bribes, and her priests teach for reward, and her prophets divine for money: and yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? evil cannot come over us. ¹² Therefore for your sake shall Zion be ploughed up as a field, and Jerusalem shall become ruinous heaps, and the mount of the house, forest-covered high-places.

⁶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, bow myself before the God on high? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old! ⁷ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with myriads of streams of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? ⁸ He hath told thee, O man, what is good; and what the Lord doth require of thee: nothing but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God.

⁹ Woe to him that obtaineth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of the wicked! ¹⁰ Thou hast counselled shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and sinning against thy soul. ¹¹ For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the wood-work will answer it. ¹² Woe to him that buildeth a city with blood-guiltiness, and layeth the foundation of a town by wrong-doing.

⁶ And those that are turned away from following the Lord; and those that have not sought for the Lord, and have not inquired of him.

⁵ Now therefore, thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart unto your ways.

⁷ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart to your ways.

¹⁵ And now direct, I pray you, your heart from this day and upward, before the time that a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:

¹⁸ Direct, I pray you, your heart from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, direct your heart to this. ¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? yes, as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, have not brought forth; but from this day will I bless you.

³ Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of all the earth; for every one that stealeth as it is on this side shall be in an equal degree entirely destroyed, as also every one that sweareth falsely as it is on that side shall be likewise entirely destroyed. ⁴ I bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with its timber and its stones.

⁹ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true justice, and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother; ¹⁰ And defraud not the widow, or the fatherless, the stranger, or the poor; and imagine not evil in your heart one against the other. ¹¹ But they refused to listen, and turned away rebelliously the shoulder, and stopped their ears, so as not to hear; ¹² And their heart they rendered as an adamant, so as not to hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent through his spirit, by means of the former prophets: wherefore came a great anger from the Lord of hosts. ¹³ And it is come to pass, that as he proclaimed, and they would not hear: so had they to call, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts;