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Proverbs 24 📜 📕 ↷
Do Not Envy - Saying 20
1 Emulate not evil men, neither desire thou to be with them:📜💬📚
2 because their mind doth meditate robberies, and their lips speak deceits.📜💬📚
Saying 21
3 By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.📜💬📚
4 In doctrine the cellars shall be replenished with all precious and most beautiful substance.📜💬📚
Saying 22
5 A wiseman is strong: and a learned man, strong and valiant.📜💬📚
6 Because war is managed by due ordering: & there shall be salvation where many counsels are.📜💬📚
Saying 23
7 Wisdom is high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.📜💬📚
Saying 24
8 He that thinketh to do evils, shall be called a fool.📜💬📚
9 The cogitation of a fool is sin: and a detracter the abomination of men.📜💬📚
Saying 25
10 If thou despair being weary in the day of distress: thy strength shall be diminished.📜💬📚
11 Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death cease not to deliver.📜💬📚
12 If thou say, I am not of force: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to man according to his works.📜💬📚
Saying 26
13 Eat honey my son, because it is good, and the honey-comb most sweet to thy throat:📜💬📚
14 so also the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou shalt find, thou shalt have hope in the later end, and thy hope shall not perish.📜💬📚
Saying 27
15 Lie not in wait, nor seek impiety in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.📜💬📚
16 For seven times shall the just fall, and shall rise again: but the impious shall fall into evil.📜💬📚
Saying 28
17 When thine enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:📜💬📚
18 Lest perhaps our Lord see, and it displease him, and he take away his wrath from him.📜💬📚
Saying 29
19 Contend not with the most wicked, nor emulate the impious:📜💬📚
20 because evil men have not hope of things to come, and the lamp of the impious shall be extinguished.📜💬📚
Saying 30
21 Fear our Lord, my son, and the king: & with detracters meddle not:📜💬📚
22 because their perdition shall suddenly rise; and the ruin of both who knoweth?📜💬📚
Further Sayings of the Wise
23 These things also to the wise: to know a person in judgement is not good.📜💬📚
24 They that say to the impious: Thou art just; peoples shall curse them, and tribes shall detest them.📜💬📚
25 They that rebuke him, shall be praised: and blessing shall come upon them.📜💬📚
26 He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.📜💬📚
27 Prepare thy work abroad, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.📜💬📚
28 Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: neither allure any man with thy lips.📜💬📚
29 Say not, As he hath done to me, so will I do to him: I will render to every one according to his work.📜💬📚
30 I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of a foolish man:📜💬📚
31 and behold nettles had filled it wholly, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the wall of stones was destroyed.📜💬📚
32 Which when I had seen, I laid it in my heart, and by the example I learned discipline.📜💬📚
33 A little I say, thou shalt sleep, a little thou shalt slumber, a little shalt thou join thy hands together to rest:📜💬📚
34 and as a post, poverty shall come to thee, & beggary as a man armed.📜💬📚
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