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Proverbs 25 📜 📕 ↷
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1 These also are the parables of Salomon, which the men of Ezechias king of Juda wrote out.📜💬📚
2 It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search the speech.📜💬📚
3 The heaven above, and the earth beneath, and the heart of kings is unscrutable.📜💬📚
4 Take away the rust from silver, and there shall come forth a most pure vessel:📜💬📚
5 Take away impiety from the king's countenance, and his throne shall be established with justice.📜💬📚
6 Appear not glorious before the king, and in the place of great men stand not.📜💬📚
7 For it is better that it be said to thee: Come up hither, than that thou be humbled before the Prince.📜💬📚
8 The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not quickly in a brawl: lest afterward thou canst not amend it, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.📜💬📚
9 Treat thy cause with thy friend, and reveal not a secret to a stranger:📜💬📚
10 lest perhaps he insult against thee when he heareth, and cease not to upbraid thee. Grace and friendship deliver: which keep to thy self, lest thou become reproachful.📜💬📚
11 Apples of gold in silver beds, he that speaketh a word in his time.📜💬📚
12 A golden earlet, and a shining precious stone, he that rebuketh a wiseman, and an obedient ear.📜💬📚
13 As the cold of snow in the day of harvest, so a faithful legate to him that sent him, maketh his soul to rest.📜💬📚
14 Clouds, and wind, and no rain following, a glorious man, and not accomplishing his promises.📜💬📚
15 By patience the Prince shall be pacified, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.📜💬📚
16 Thou hast found honey, eat that which sufficeth thee, lest perhaps being filled thou vomit it up.📜💬📚
17 Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest sometime having his fill he hate thee.📜💬📚
18 A dart, and sword, and a sharp arrow, a man that speaketh false testimony against his neighbour.📜💬📚
19 A rotten tooth, and weary foot, he that hopeth upon the unfaithful in the day of distress,📜💬📚
20 and that loseth his cloak in the day of cold. Vinegar in nitre, he that singeth songs to a naughty heart. As a moth the garment, and a worm the wood: so the sadness of a man hurteth the heart.📜💬📚
21 If thine enemy shall hunger, give him meat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:📜💬📚
22 for thou shalt heap hot coals upon his head, and our Lord will reward thee.📜💬📚
23 The north-wind dissipateth rains, & a sad look the tongue that detracteth.📜💬📚
24 It is better to sit in a corner of the house top, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.📜💬📚
25 Cold water to a thirsty soul, and good tidings from a far country.📜💬📚
26 A fountain troubled with the foot, and a vein corrupted, the just falling before the impious.📜💬📚
27 As he that eateth much honey, it is not good for him: so he that is a searcher of the majesty, shall be oppressed of the glory.📜💬📚
28 As a city being open and without compass of walls, so a man that can not repress his spirit in speaking.📜💬📚
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