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Chapter 1:33 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-1:1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
20-1:2 For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
20-1:3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
20-1:4 For giving to simple ones--prudence, To a youth--knowledge and discretion.
20-1:5 (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
20-1:6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
20-1:7 Fear of Jehovah is a
beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
20-1:8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
20-1:9 For a
graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
20-1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
20-1:11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
20-1:12 We swallow them as Sheol--alive, And whole--as those going down to the pit,
20-1:13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,
20-1:14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is--to all of us.'
20-1:15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
20-1:16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
20-1:17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
20-1:18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
20-1:19 So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
20-1:20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
20-1:21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
20-1:22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
20-1:23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I
make known my words with you.
20-1:24 Because I
have called, and ye refuse, I
stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
20-1:25 And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
20-1:26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I
deride when your fear cometh,
20-1:27 When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
20-1:28 Then they call me, and I
do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
20-1:29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
20-1:30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
20-1:31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
20-1:32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
20-1:33 And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'
Proverbs 2:
Chapter 2:22 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-2:1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
20-2:2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
20-2:3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
20-2:4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
20-2:5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
20-2:6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
20-2:7 Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
20-2:8 To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
20-2:9 Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness--every good
path.
20-2:10 For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
20-2:11 Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
20-2:12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
20-2:13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
20-2:14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
20-2:15 Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
20-2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
20-2:17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
20-2:18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
20-2:19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20-2:20 That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
20-2:21 For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
20-2:22 And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
Proverbs 3:
Chapter 3:35 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-3:1 My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
20-3:2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
20-3:3 Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
20-3:4 And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.
20-3:5 Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.
20-3:6 In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
20-3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.
20-3:8 Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.
20-3:9 Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;
20-3:10 And filled are thy barns with plenty, And with new wine thy presses break forth.
20-3:11 Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,
20-3:12 For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.
20-3:13 O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding.
20-3:14 For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold--her increase.
20-3:15 Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.
20-3:16 Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour.
20-3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
20-3:18 A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.
20-3:19 Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding.
20-3:20 By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.
20-3:21 My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness,
20-3:22 And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
20-3:23 Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble.
20-3:24 If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.
20-3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh.
20-3:26 For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture.
20-3:27 Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand is toward God to do it .
20-3:28 Say not thou to thy friend, `Go, and return, and to-morrow I
give,' And substance with thee.
20-3:29 Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.
20-3:30 Strive not with a
man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.
20-3:31 Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.
20-3:32 For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.
20-3:33 The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.
20-3:34 If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.
20-3:35 Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!
Proverbs 4:
Chapter 4:27 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-4:1 Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
20-4:2 For good learning I
have given to you, My law forsake not.
20-4:3 For, a
son I
have been to my father--tender, And an only one before my mother.
20-4:4 And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
20-4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.
20-4:6 Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.
20-4:7 The first thing is wisdom--get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
20-4:8 Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.
20-4:9 She giveth to thy head a
wreath of grace, A
crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.
20-4:10 Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.
20-4:11 In a
way of wisdom I
have directed thee, I
have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.
20-4:12 In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.
20-4:13 Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.
20-4:14 Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a
way of evil doers.
20-4:15 Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
20-4:16 For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
20-4:17 For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
20-4:18 And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
20-4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
20-4:20 My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
20-4:21 Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.
20-4:22 For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
20-4:23 Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.
20-4:24 Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,
20-4:25 Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.
20-4:26 Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.
20-4:27 Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!
Proverbs 5:
Chapter 5:23 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-5:1 My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
20-5:2 To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
20-5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
20-5:4 And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.
20-5:5 Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
20-5:6 The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not.
20-5:7 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
20-5:8 Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
20-5:9 Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
20-5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
20-5:11 And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
20-5:12 And hast said, `How have I
hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
20-5:13 And I
have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
20-5:14 As a
little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
20-5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
20-5:16 Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
20-5:17 Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
20-5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
20-5:19 A hind of loves, and a
roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
20-5:20 And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a
stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
20-5:21 For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
20-5:22 His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
20-5:23 He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
Proverbs 6:
Chapter 6:35 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-6:1 My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a
stranger thy hand,
20-6:2 Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
20-6:3 Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,
20-6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
20-6:5 Be delivered as a
roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
20-6:6 Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
20-6:7 Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,
20-6:8 She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
20-6:9 Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?
20-6:10 A little sleep, a
little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
20-6:11 And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
20-6:12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,
20-6:13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
20-6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
20-6:15 Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken--and no healing.
20-6:16 These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.
20-6:17 Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--
20-6:18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--
20-6:19 A false witness who doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
20-6:20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
20-6:21 Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
20-6:22 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.
20-6:23 For a
lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a
way of life are reproofs of instruction,
20-6:24 To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
20-6:25 Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
20-6:26 For a
harlot consumeth unto a
cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
20-6:27 Doth a
man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
20-6:28 Doth a
man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
20-6:29 So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
20-6:30 They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
20-6:31 And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
20-6:32 He who committeth adultery with a
woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
20-6:33 A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,
20-6:34 For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.
20-6:35 He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!
Proverbs 7:
Chapter 7:27 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-7:1 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.