Proverbs 2 Cross References - YLT

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, ² To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, ³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, ⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, ⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. ⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. ⁷ Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. ⁸ To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. ⁹ Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.
¹⁰ For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, ¹¹ Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, ¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, ¹³ Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, ¹⁴ Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, ¹⁵ Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. ¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, ¹⁷ Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. ¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. ¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life. ²⁰ That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep. ²¹ For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it, ²² And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

⁶ and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, ⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes, ⁹ and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

⁹ Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe—according to Thy word.
¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.
¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

³ For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.

²⁰ My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear, ²¹ Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart. ²² For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.

²¹ Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

¹ My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

¹⁹ and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

⁵¹ and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

⁴⁴ `Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.'

⁴⁷ and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I—I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world. ⁴⁸ `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

¹⁵ stedfast is the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners—first of whom I am;

¹² To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart are they. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart To do Thy statutes, to the age—to the end!

¹ For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, ¹⁸ For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips. ¹⁹ That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou. ²⁰ Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? ²¹ To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.

¹² Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

²⁵ I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

⁹ All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

¹⁶ When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David—that are stedfast.

⁹ He who is having ears to hear—let him hear.'

¹¹ and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

⁹ and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?' ¹⁰ And the thing is good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon hath asked this thing, ¹¹ and God saith unto him, `Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment, ¹² lo, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given to thee a heart, wise and understanding, that like thee there hath not been before thee, and after thee there doth not arise like thee;

¹² Only, Jehovah give to thee wisdom and understanding, and charge thee concerning Israel, even to keep the law of Jehovah thy God;

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me. ⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

⁷³ Yod. Thy hands made me and establish me, Cause me to understand, and I learn Thy commands.

¹²⁵ Thy servant am I—cause me to understand, And I know Thy testimonies.

¹⁶⁹ Taw. My loud cry cometh near before Thee, O Jehovah; According to Thy word cause me to understand.

⁶ In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

¹⁷ I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.

¹³ If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

⁵ and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

²¹ Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

¹² And the wisdom—whence is it found? And where is this, the place of understanding? ¹³ Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.
¹⁴ The deep hath said, `It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, `It is not with me.' ¹⁵ Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed—its price. ¹⁶ It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire, ¹⁷ Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor is its exchange a vessel of fine gold. ¹⁸ Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom is above rubies. ¹⁹ Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is not valued.
²⁰ And the wisdom—whence doth it come? And where is this, the place of understanding?

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

¹⁴ In the way of Thy testimonies I have joyed, As over all wealth.

⁷² Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

¹²⁷ Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold—even fine gold.

¹⁴ For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold—her increase. ¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

¹⁸ Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness. ¹⁹ Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

¹⁶ To get wisdom—how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!

²³ Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

⁸ There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

¹⁹ `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, ²⁰ but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal, ²¹ for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

²¹ Jesus said to him, `If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.' ²² And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;

²⁹ and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

⁸ `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

¹⁰ now, wisdom and knowledge give to me, and I go out before this people, and I come in, for who doth judge this Thy great people?' ¹¹ And God saith to Solomon, `Because that this hath been with thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, and honour, and the life of those hating thee, and also many days hast not asked, and dost ask for thyself wisdom and knowledge, so that thou dost judge My people over which I have caused thee to reign— ¹² the wisdom and the knowledge is given to thee, and riches and wealth and honour I give to thee, that there hath not been so to the kings who are before thee, and after thee it is not so.'

²⁸ And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

⁷ Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

¹⁰ The commencement of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.

²⁴ But—in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁷ And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I am Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.

³⁴ And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.

⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me; ⁴¹ and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.

³ And we know—we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain—sprinkling earth.'

⁷ `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; ⁸ for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

²⁷ `All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him .

²² `All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him .'

⁹ and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; ¹⁰ for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. ¹¹ `And of which of you—the father—if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him? ¹² and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion? ¹³ If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

³ and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send—Jesus Christ;

²⁰ and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

³ and I fill him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,

⁹ and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?'

¹² lo, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given to thee a heart, wise and understanding, that like thee there hath not been before thee, and after thee there doth not arise like thee;

²⁹ And God giveth wisdom to Solomon, and understanding, very much, and breadth of heart, as the sand that is on the edge of the sea;

⁸ Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age.

¹⁰⁴ From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

⁵ Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart, ⁶ Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness. ⁷ For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness. ⁸ In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse. ⁹ All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

¹³ And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant is the peace of thy sons.

¹⁷ As to these four lads, God hath given to them knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature, and wisdom; and Daniel hath given instruction about every kind of vision and dreams.

²¹ And He is changing times and seasons, He is causing kings to pass away, and He is raising up kings; He is giving wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those possessing understanding.

²³ Thee, O God of my fathers, I am thanking and praising, for wisdom and might Thou hast given to me; and now, Thou hast caused me to know that which we have sought from Thee, for the king's matter Thou hast caused us to know.'

¹⁵ for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

⁴⁵ it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

¹⁷ every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

⁸ Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion.

¹¹ For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

² My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my people under me!

¹⁴ Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.

¹⁸ Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

⁵ Every saying of God is tried, A shield He is to those trusting in Him.

¹⁹ for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

²⁴ and to those called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,

³⁰ and of Him ye—ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

⁶ And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age—of those becoming useless, ⁷ but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age—let him become a fool, that he may become wise, ¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

³ in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; ¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted—for every good work having been completed.

¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter; ¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: —

³ Also He is loving the peoples; All His holy ones are in thy hand, And they—they sat down at thy foot, Each He lifteth up at thy words.

²⁶ There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies. ²⁷ A habitation is the eternal God, And beneath are arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!' ²⁸ And Israel doth tabernacle in confidence alone; The eye of Jacob is unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew. ²⁹ O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who is the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

³ My soul He refresheth, He leadeth me in paths of righteousness, For His name's sake,

²³ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth. ²⁴ When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

²⁸ For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

³¹ The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

⁹ Who hath placed our soul in life, And suffered not our feet to be moved.

⁵ Jehovah is thy preserver, Jehovah is thy shade on thy right hand, ⁶ By day the sun doth not smite thee, Nor the moon by night. ⁷ Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul. ⁸ Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

²⁰ Jehovah preserveth all those loving Him, And all the wicked He destroyeth.

²¹ My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness, ²² And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. ²³ Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble. ²⁴ If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.

²⁰ In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

⁹ No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,

⁹ To say to the bound, Go out, To those in darkness, Be uncovered. On the ways they feed, And in all high places is their pasture. ¹⁰ They do not hunger, nor thirst, Nor smite them doth mirage and sun, For He who is pitying them doth lead them, And by fountains of waters doth tend them.

²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish—to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; ²⁹ my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

²⁴ And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set you in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

⁸ I cause thee to act wisely, And direct thee in the way that thou goest, I cause mine eye to take counsel concerning thee.

⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁵ Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.

⁸ Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered. ¹⁰ Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God—Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

² For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, ³ For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, ⁴ For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion. ⁵ (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) ⁶ For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

⁸ And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way—even fools err not.

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this—the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'

¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; ¹⁴ how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

⁶ Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

³⁴ Sweet is my meditation on Him, I—I do rejoice in Jehovah.

⁹⁷ Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.

¹⁰³ How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart are they.

¹⁶² I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.

³³ In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.

¹ For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.
² A fool delighteth not in understanding, But—in uncovering his heart.

¹³ Eat my son, honey that is good, And the honeycomb—sweet to thy palate. ¹⁴ So is the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.

¹⁶ Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

²¹ Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited on Thee.

⁶ Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

²² In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked—it talketh with thee. ²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction, ²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

¹⁵ and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man! ¹⁶ And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' — ¹⁷ The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools. ¹⁸ Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

¹⁰ If the iron hath been blunt, And he the face hath not sharpened, Then doth he increase strength, And wisdom is advantageous to make right.

¹⁵ See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

⁴ As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer; ⁵ To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.

⁴ I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not. ⁵ I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

⁴ A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

⁴ Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. ¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, ¹² We swallow them as Sheol—alive, And whole—as those going down to the pit, ¹³ Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, ¹⁴ Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is—to all of us.' ¹⁵ My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, ¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. ¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

³² For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. ¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on. ¹⁶ For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. ¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

⁶ Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

²⁰ Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

²⁸ A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
²⁹ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good. ³⁰ Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

³ For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. ⁴ There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. ⁵ Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.

³⁰ and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

¹⁷ wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I—I will receive you,

¹³ They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths. ¹⁴ At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. ¹⁵ And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. ¹⁶ He hath dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

³ The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently—to do good.

⁵ They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

¹⁶ A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.

²⁶ In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth.

¹² And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning. ¹³ In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And—he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.

⁶ And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

⁴³ `And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find; ⁴⁴ then it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth; and having come, it findeth it unoccupied, swept, and adorned: ⁴⁵ then doth it go, and take with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man doth become worse than the first; so shall it be also to this evil generation.'

⁶ There came a man—having been sent from God—whose name is John,

⁹ And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom, ¹⁰ and saith to him, `Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.' ¹¹ This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; ²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

³⁵ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

²¹ because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

⁵ all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,
⁶ so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, ⁷ for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

⁴ for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, ⁶ and having fallen away, again to renew them to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.

²⁰ for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, ²¹ for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them, ²² and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself—to rolling in mire.'

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but—that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

²³ To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

¹⁵ What—to My beloved in My house, Her doing wickedness with many, And the holy flesh do pass over from thee? When thou dost evil, then thou exultest.

³ With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies—princes.

¹⁵ Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

¹¹ In that day thou art not ashamed because of any of thine actions, Wherewith thou hast transgressed against Me, For then do I turn aside from thy midst The exulting ones of thine excellency, And thou dost add no more to be haughty, In My holy mountain.

⁴ and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them, ⁵ and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,

³² who the righteous judgment of God having known—that those practising such things are worthy of death—not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁵ It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!

⁵ As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

⁸ Froward is the way of a man who is vile, And the pure—upright is his work.

⁸ No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age, ⁹ That a rebellious people is this, sons—liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah. ¹⁰ Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits, ¹¹ Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.' ¹² Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it, ¹³ Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

⁸ A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

³ and his lord seeth that Jehovah is with him, and all that he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper in his hand, ⁴ and Joseph findeth grace in his eyes and serveth him, and he appointeth him over his house, and all that he hath he hath given into his hand. ⁵ And it cometh to pass from the time that he hath appointed him over his house, and over all that he hath, that Jehovah blesseth the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of Jehovah is on all that he hath, in the house, and in the field; ⁶ and he leaveth all that he hath in the hand of Joseph, and he hath not known anything that he hath, except the bread which he is eating. And Joseph is of a fair form, and of a fair appearance.
⁷ And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, `Lie with me;' <sup>8</sup> and he refuseth, and saith unto his lord's wife, `Lo, my lord hath not known what is with me in the house, and all that he hath he hath given into my hand; ⁹ none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou art his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? —then have I sinned against God.' ¹⁰ And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day by day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her; ¹¹ and it cometh to pass about this day, that he goeth into the house to do his work, and there is none of the men of the house there in the house, ¹² and she catcheth him by his garment, saying, `Lie with me;' and he leaveth his garment in her hand, and fleeth, and goeth without.

²⁶ `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel—even him did the strange women cause to sin. ²⁷ And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, ⁴ And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths. ⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. ⁶ The path of life—lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths—thou knowest not. ⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, ⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, ¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, ¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. ¹⁴ As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. ¹⁷ Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, ¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. ²⁰ And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

⁵ To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
⁶ For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out, ⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding, ⁸ Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way to her house he doth step, ⁹ In the twilight—in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness. ¹⁰ And, lo, a woman to meet him—(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart, ¹¹ Noisy she is, and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not. ¹² Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) — ¹³ And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him, ¹⁴ `Sacrifices of peace-offerings are by me, To-day I have completed my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee. ¹⁶ With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works—cotton of Egypt. ¹⁷ I sprinkled my bed—myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves. ¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey. ²⁰ A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.' ²¹ She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. ²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

¹⁴ A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

⁵ A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

⁴ Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?

⁸ And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time is a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

⁵⁹ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath—to break covenant.
⁶⁰ And I—I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.

¹⁴ And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. ¹⁵ And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously. ¹⁶ For I hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He who hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

⁴ And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths. ⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. ⁶ The path of life—lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths—thou knowest not. ⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, ⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, ¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, ¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. ¹⁴ As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

²⁶ For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth. ²⁷ Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt? ²⁸ Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched? ²⁹ So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent. ³⁰ They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry, ³¹ And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth. ³² He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it. ³³ A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away, ³⁴ For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance. ³⁵ He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.
²⁴ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, ²⁶ For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones. ²⁷ The ways of Sheol—her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

¹⁸ And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

⁹ have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. ¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

⁵ for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

⁸ and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

¹⁵ and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

²³ Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

¹⁴ Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.

²⁴ and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.' ²⁵ And his disciples having heard, were amazed exceedingly, saying, `Who, then, is able to be saved?' <sup>26</sup> And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

⁶³ A companion I am to all who fear Thee, And to those keeping Thy precepts.

¹¹⁵ Turn aside from me, ye evil-doers, And I keep the commands of my God.

⁷ Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions? ⁸ If thou knowest not, O fair among women, Get thee forth by the traces of the flock, And feed thy kids by the shepherds' dwellings!

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

¹¹ Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

¹² And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

³ Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell in the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

⁹ For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.

¹¹ And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.

²² For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

²⁹ The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

⁴ Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous. ⁵ Good is the man—gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.
⁶ For—to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous.

³⁰ The righteous to the age is not moved, And the wicked inhabit not the earth.

²² `And Jehovah thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little by little, (thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee),

⁶³ `And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it; ⁶⁴ and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers—wood and stone.

¹⁶ From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. ¹⁷ His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. ¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

²⁰ But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.

³⁷ Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each is peace. ³⁸ And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.

⁵ Also—God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

³⁵ Consumed are sinners from the earth, And the wicked are no more. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah!

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. ²³ He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. ¹¹ Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.