Proverbs 20 Cross References - YLT

¹ Wine is a scorner—strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
² The fear of a king is a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.
³ An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
⁴ Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
⁵ Counsel in the heart of a man is deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
⁶ A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?
⁷ The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
⁸ A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,
⁹ Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
<sup>10</sup> A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
<sup>11</sup> Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.
<sup>12</sup> A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
<sup>13</sup> Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes—be satisfied with bread.
<sup>14</sup> `Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.
¹⁵ Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, are lips of knowledge.
¹⁶ Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.
¹⁷ Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.
¹⁸ Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.
¹⁹ A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.
²⁰ Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
²¹ An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
²² Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.
²³ An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.
²⁴ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, And man—how understandeth he his way?
²⁵ A snare to a man is he hath swallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry.
²⁶ A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.
²⁷ The breath of man is a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.
²⁸ Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne.
²⁹ The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.
³⁰ The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!

²¹ and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent. ²² And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without. ²³ And Shem taketh—Japheth also—the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces are backward, and their father's nakedness they have not seen.

³¹ And the first-born saith unto the younger, `Our father is old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as is the way of all the earth; <sup>32</sup> come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father—a seed.' <sup>33</sup> And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with her father, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. <sup>34</sup> And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith unto the younger, `Lo, I have lain yesterday-night with my father: we cause him to drink wine also to-night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we preserve from our father—a seed.' ³⁵ And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger riseth and lieth with him, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. ³⁶ And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,

³⁶ And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning. ³⁷ And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone. ³⁸ And it cometh to pass, in about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,

¹³ and David calleth for him, and he eateth before him, and drinketh, and he causeth him to drink, and he goeth out in the evening to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, and unto his house he hath not gone down.

²⁸ And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, `See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'

¹⁶ and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking—drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings, helping him. ¹⁷ And the young men of the heads of the provinces go out at the first, and Ben-Hadad sendeth, and they declare to him, saying, `Men have come out of Samaria.' <sup>18</sup> And he saith, `If for peace they have come out—catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out—alive catch them.' ¹⁹ And these have gone out of the city—the young men of the heads of the provinces—and the force that is after them, ²⁰ and smite each his man, and Aram fleeth, and Israel pursueth them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escapeth on a horse, and the horsemen; ²¹ and the king of Israel goeth out, and smiteth the horses, and the charioteers, and hath smitten among the Aramaeans a great smiting.

²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰ Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine. ³¹ See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright. ³² Its latter end—as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth. ³³ Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. ³⁴ And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast. ³⁵ `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!'

⁴ Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

²² Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

⁷ And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially.

¹² `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great—exceeding abundant!'

¹¹ Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

⁵ A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

¹⁵ Woe to him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness. ¹⁶ Thou hast been filled—shame without honour, Drink thou also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing is on thine honour.

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

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.

¹⁸ and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

³⁸ even the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.'

²³ And king Solomon sweareth by Jehovah, saying, `Thus doth God to me, and thus He doth add—surely against his soul hath Adonijah spoken this word;

³⁶ And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

¹⁴ The fury of a king is messengers of death, And a wise man pacifieth it. ¹⁵ In the light of a king's face is life, And his good-will is as a cloud of the latter rain.

¹² The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.

¹⁰ After Jehovah they go—as a lion He roareth, When He doth roar, then tremble do the sons from the west.

⁸ A lion hath roared—who doth not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken—who doth not prophesy?

¹⁰ Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul.

⁹ And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, `The thorn that is in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that is in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.

¹⁷ Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

³² Better is the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

¹⁴ The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

¹¹ The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory is to pass over transgression.

²⁴ Proud, haughty, scorner is his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

⁸ Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush? ⁹ Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, ¹⁰ Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved, ⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, ⁸ in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

³² and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

¹ Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence—out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest, ¹¹ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

⁴ Poor is he who is working—a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

⁴ The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

¹⁵ Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

²⁴ The slothful hath hidden his hand in a dish, Even unto his mouth he bringeth it not back.

³⁴ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.'
¹⁴ The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.
¹⁵ The slothful hath hid his hand in a dish, He is weary of bringing it back to his mouth.
¹⁶ Wiser is the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven men returning a reason.

³ they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil; ⁴ and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps. ⁵ `And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping, <sup>6</sup> and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him. <sup>7</sup> `Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps, ⁸ and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out; ⁹ and the prudent answered, saying—Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ `And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

²⁴ `And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter; <sup>25</sup> and having been afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth; lo, thou hast thine own! <sup>26</sup> `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter! ²⁷ it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase. ²⁸ `Take therefore from him the talent, and give to him having the ten talents,

⁵ And this same also—all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, ⁶ and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, ⁷ and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; ⁸ for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins; ¹⁰ wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble, ¹¹ for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

⁶ They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

⁴ Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.

¹¹ for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

¹ To the Overseer, on the octave. —A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:

¹⁴ Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, Is a man boasting himself in a false gift.

² Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

²⁸ (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

¹ Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness—Then am I propitious to her.

² Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men—there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

² whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you—they have their reward!

⁸ I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'

¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

²⁸ And Peter said, `Lo, we left all, and did follow thee;'

³³ And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

¹¹ I have become a fool—boasting; ye—ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles—even if I am nothing.

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

² He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

¹ By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

¹¹ And I, in mine integrity I walk, Redeem me, and favour me.

²⁶ All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

²² A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

² Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted in his ways is despising Him.

¹ Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.

¹⁵ Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

³⁹ for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

³ for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk; ⁴ greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

³ And David's men say unto him, `Lo, we here in Judah are afraid; and how much more when we go to Keilah, unto the ranks of the Philistines?' <sup>4</sup> And David addeth again to ask at Jehovah, and Jehovah answereth him, and saith, `Rise, go down to Keilah, for I am giving the Philistines into thy hand.'

⁴ And as the light of morning he riseth, A morning sun—no clouds! By the shining, by the rain, Tender grass of the earth!

⁴ He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

⁹ For, lo, Thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, Thine enemies, do perish, Separate themselves do all workers of iniquity.

⁴ And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou—Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou—Thou hast done.

⁶ Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me. ⁷ He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes. ⁸ At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity!

¹² An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.

²⁶ A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.

⁵ Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.

¹⁴ a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.

¹ Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule.

⁴⁶ `When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;

³⁶ `When they sin against Thee—for there is not a man who sinneth not—and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their captors, unto a land far off or near;

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

¹⁴ What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure—born of a woman?

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

²⁰ Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

⁴ for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right—and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

⁸ if we may say—`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; <sup>9</sup> if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; <sup>10</sup> if we may say—`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

³⁵ `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

²⁵ `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken it to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it is; ²⁶ and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house—or thou hast been devoted like it; —thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it is devoted.

¹³ `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. ¹⁴ Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small. ¹⁵ Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

¹ Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

¹¹ A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.

²³ An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.

⁴ Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, ⁵ Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. ⁶ To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell. ⁷ Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.

¹⁰ Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? ¹¹ Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

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.'

³ The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

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

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

¹⁶ From their fruits ye shall know them; do men gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?

¹⁵ for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

⁶⁶ and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, `What then shall this child be?' and the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁴⁶ And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them, ⁴⁷ and all those hearing him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

⁴³ `For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit; ⁴⁴ for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto him, `Who appointed a mouth for man? or who appointeth the dumb, or deaf, or open, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah?

⁹ He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

¹⁸ Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.

¹³ `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand, <sup>14</sup> and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, <sup>15</sup> for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them. <sup>16</sup> `And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

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,

⁹ Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

¹¹ Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

³⁰ Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart. ³¹ And lo, it hath gone up—all of it—thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down. ³² And I see—I—I do set my heart, I have seen—I have received instruction, ³³ A little sleep—a little slumber—A little folding of the hands to lie down. ³⁴ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

⁶ And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, `What—to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'

¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

³⁴ awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it .

¹⁴ wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

¹⁰ for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

¹⁰ There is a thing of which one saith: `See this, it is new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

⁷ Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved. ⁸ And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours—they find not against me iniquity that is sin.'

⁶ that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger is the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

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.

¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

¹¹ For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous is chosen silver, The heart of the wicked—as a little thing. ²¹ The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools is not right.

²³ Joy is to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season—how good!

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

²¹ To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.

²⁴ Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

¹² A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, Is the wise reprover to an attentive ear.

⁹ And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out—he made right many similes. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth. ¹¹ Words of the wise are as goads, and as fences planted by the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.

¹⁴ How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching? ¹⁵ and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

²⁶ if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him: ²⁷ for it alone is his covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I am gracious.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,

⁵ To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

¹⁰ And, lo, a woman to meet him—(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

¹⁵ Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.

²⁶ Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens. ²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?

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

¹³ Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

⁶ And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat; ⁷ and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they are naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.

¹² Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, ¹³ Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate, ¹⁴ His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart. ¹⁵ Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. ¹⁶ Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. ¹⁷ He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. ¹⁸ He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not. ¹⁹ For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ²⁰ For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

¹⁷ `Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.' ¹⁸ And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood. ¹⁶ And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

²⁵ having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

¹ And it cometh to pass, after the death of Joshua, that the sons of Israel ask at Jehovah, saying, `Who doth go up for us unto the Canaanite, at the commencement, to fight against it?' <sup>2</sup> And Jehovah saith, `Judah doth go up; lo, I have given the land into his hand.'

²⁹ and oh that this people were in my hand—then I turn Abimelech aside;' and he saith to Abimelech, `Increase thy host, and come out.'

⁷ lo, ye are all sons of Israel; give for you a word and counsel here.'

¹⁸ And they rise and go up to Beth-El, and ask of God, and the sons of Israel say, `Who doth go up for us at the commencement to battle with the sons of Benjamin?' and Jehovah saith, `Judah—at the commencement.'

²³ And the sons of Israel go up and weep before Jehovah till the evening, and ask of Jehovah, saying, `Do I add to draw nigh to battle with the sons of Benjamin, my brother?' And Jehovah saith, `Go up against him.'

²⁶ And all the sons of Israel go up, even all the people, and come in to Beth-El, and weep, and sit there before Jehovah, and fast on that day till the evening, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah. ²⁷ And the sons of Israel ask of Jehovah, —and there is the ark of the covenant of God in those days, ²⁸ and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, is standing before it in those days—saying, `Do I add again to go out to battle with the sons of Benjamin, my brother, or do I cease?' And Jehovah saith, `Go up, for to-morrow I give him into thy hand.'

²⁶ and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, `For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?' <sup>27</sup> And Joab saith, `God liveth! for unless thou hadst spoken, surely then from the morning had the people gone up each from after his brother.'

¹⁷ And Amaziah king of Judah taketh counsel, and sendeth unto Joash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, ¹⁸ `Come, we look one another in the face.' And Joash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, `The thorn that is in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that is in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn. ¹⁹ Thou hast said, Lo, I have smitten Edom; and thy heart hath lifted thee up to boast; now, abide in thy house, why dost thou stir thyself up in evil, that thou hast fallen, thou, and Judah with thee?' ²⁰ And Amaziah hath not hearkened, for from God it is in order to give them into hand, because they have sought the gods of Edom; ²¹ and go up doth Joash king of Israel, and they look one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, in Beth-Shemesh, that is Judah's, ²² and Judah is smitten before Israel, and they flee—each to his tents. ²³ And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, hath Joash king of Israel caught in Beth-Shemesh, and bringeth him in to Jerusalem, and breaketh down in the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits,

¹⁴ Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

²² Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

⁶ For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

⁸ Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

³¹ `Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?

¹⁶ `Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am Jehovah.

¹³ A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

³ Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips—ruin to him!

²⁹ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

⁸ The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

²¹ Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,

²⁰ Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth, ²¹ Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife. ²² The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

¹⁸ for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

¹² `Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

¹⁷ `And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

⁹ `For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.

¹⁶ `Cursed is He who is making light of his father and his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen.

⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. ⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²⁰ For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

¹¹ A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

¹⁷ An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

⁴ for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death;

¹³ `Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

⁸ and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

¹⁰ for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death; ¹¹ and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine, ¹² and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother, ¹³ setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

¹³ wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

¹⁶ If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He prepareth—and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.

⁴ Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

⁸ Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

²⁰ A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

²² Troubled for wealth is the man with an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

⁶ Do not these—all of them—against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

⁴ `I have brought it out—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts—and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

² If ye hearken not, and if ye lay it not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying it to heart.

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

³⁵ Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time—doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

¹² it may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.'

¹⁴ Look unto Jehovah—be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

³⁴ Look unto Jehovah, and keep His way, And He doth exalt thee to possess the land, In the wicked being cut off—thou seest!

¹³ Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not from his house.

²⁹ Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.'

³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

²⁵ Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him. ²⁶ Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

³⁹ but I—I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

¹⁷ giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. ¹⁸ If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine,

¹⁵ see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

²³ who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

⁹ not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

¹⁹ so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

¹⁰ A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

¹⁰ Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath—ye have.

⁷ Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

⁵ Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

¹² Who is this—the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.

²³ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

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

⁹ The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

⁶ Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places. ⁷ And he—he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For—to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

²³ I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man is his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

²³ and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand is thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

²⁸ for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

¹⁵ `When a person committeth a trespass, and hath sinned through ignorance against the holy things of Jehovah, then he hath brought in his guilt-offering to Jehovah, a ram, a perfect one, out of the flock, at thy valuation in silver—shekels by the shekel of the sanctuary—for a guilt-offering.

¹⁰ `And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing; <sup>11</sup> and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread. <sup>12</sup> `And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, —she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat; ¹³ and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it. ¹⁴ `And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given it to the priest, with the holy thing; ¹⁵ and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel—that which they lift up to Jehovah,

⁹ `And if it is a beast of which they bring near an offering to Jehovah, all that one giveth of it to Jehovah is holy; ¹⁰ he doth not change it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he really change beast for beast, —then it hath been—it and its exchange is holy.

³⁰ And all tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's—holy to Jehovah. ³¹ `And if a man really redeem any of his tithe, its fifth he addeth to it.

² `When a man voweth a vow to Jehovah, or hath sworn an oath to bind a bond on his soul, he doth not pollute his word; according to all that is going out from his mouth he doth.
<sup>3</sup> `And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth, ⁴ and her father hath heard her vow, and her bond which she hath bound on her soul, and her father hath kept silent at her, then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established. ⁵ `And if her father hath disallowed her in the day of his hearing, none of her vows and her bonds which she hath bound on her soul is established, and Jehovah is propitious to her, for her father hath disallowed her. <sup>6</sup> `And if she be at all to a husband, and her vows are on her, or a wrongful utterance on her lips, which she hath bound on her soul, ⁷ and her husband hath heard, and in the day of his hearing, he hath kept silent at her, then have her vows been established, and her bonds which she hath bound on her soul are established. ⁸ `And if in the day of her husband's hearing he disalloweth her, then he hath broken her vow which is on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she hath bound on her soul, and Jehovah is propitious to her. <sup>9</sup> `As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her. ¹⁰ `And if in the house of her husband she hath vowed, or hath bound a bond on her soul with an oath, <sup>11</sup> and her husband hath heard, and hath kept silent at her—he hath not disallowed her—then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established. <sup>12</sup> `And if her husband doth certainly break them in the day of his hearing, none of the outgoing of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, is established—her husband hath broken them—and Jehovah is propitious to her. ¹³ `Every vow and every oath—a bond to humble a soul—her husband doth establish it, or her husband doth break it; ¹⁴ and if her husband certainly keep silent at her, from day unto day, then he hath established all her vows, or all her bonds which are upon her; he hath established them, for he hath kept silent at her in the day of his hearing; ¹⁵ and if he doth at all break them after his hearing, then he hath borne her iniquity.' ¹⁶ These are the statutes which Jehovah hath commanded Moses between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, in her youth, in the house of her father.

⁷ The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

⁴ When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest—complete. ⁵ Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete. ⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

⁸ Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering! ⁹ With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving—this nation—all of it. ¹⁰ Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

³³ `Again, ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but thou shalt pay to the Lord thine oaths;

⁹ And David answereth Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and saith to them, `Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, ¹⁰ when one is declaring to me, saying, Lo, Saul is dead, and he was as a bearer of tidings in his own eyes, then I take hold on him, and slay him in Ziklag, instead of my giving to him for the tidings. ¹¹ Also—when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?' ¹² And David commandeth the young men, and they slay them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hang them over the pool in Hebron, and the head of Ish-Bosheth they have taken, and bury it in the burying-place of Abner in Hebron.

³¹ and the people who are in it he hath brought out, and setteth to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes of iron, and hath caused them to pass over into the brick-kiln; and so he doth to all the cities of the Bene-Ammon; and David turneth back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

⁸ A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,

²⁷ For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod. ²⁸ Bread-corn is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed it hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.

⁷ And Jehovah God formeth the man—dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

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

³⁰ The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!

¹⁵ who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

² but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God; ³ and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed, ⁴ in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God; ⁵ for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus—Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus; ⁶ because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹² for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart; ¹³ and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes—with whom is our reckoning.

¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

⁷ For the king is trusting in Jehovah, And in the kindness of the Most High He is not moved.

⁷ He dwelleth to the age before God, Kindness and truth appoint—they keep him.

¹ A Psalm of David. Kindness and judgment I sing, To Thee, O Jehovah, I sing praise.

⁶ In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.

⁵ And established in kindness is the throne, And one hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

³² `At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

³¹ A crown of beauty are grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

²³ Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches, 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.

¹⁴ I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

²⁵ A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.

⁹ Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this is all the fruit—To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not—shrines and images.

⁵ And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.

¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;