Proverbs 4 Cross References - Brenton

¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law. ³ For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother: ⁴ who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep our commandments, forget them not: ⁵ and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. ⁶ And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee. ⁷ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee; ⁹ that it may give unto thy head a crown of graces, and may cover thee with a crown of delight. ¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my words; and the years of thy life shall be increased, that the resources of thy life may be many. ¹¹ For I teach thee the ways of wisdom; and I cause thee to go in right paths. ¹² For when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not be distressed. ¹³ Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, — but keep it for thyself for thy life. ¹⁴ Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors. ¹⁵ In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away. ¹⁶ For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not. ¹⁷ For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression. ¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come. ¹⁹ But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble. ²⁰ My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words: ²¹ that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart. ²² For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh. ²³ Keep thine heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life. ²⁴ Remove from thee a froward mouth, and put far away from thee unjust lips. ²⁵ Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids assent to just things. ²⁶ Make straight paths for thy feet, and order thy ways aright. ²⁷ Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away thy foot from an evil way: ^(4:27A) {\I for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked:} ^(4:27B) and he will make thy ways straight, and will guide thy steps in peace.

^{11 (33:11)} Come, ye children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and reject not the rules of thy mother.

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee; ² thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son. ³ For it thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding; ⁴ and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom, and apply thine ear to my words;

²⁰ My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother: ²¹ but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck. ²² Whensoever thou walkest, lead this along and let it be with thee; that it may talk with thee when thou wakest. ²³ For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:

⁴ Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

³² Now then, my son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall hearken to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways; ³³ (OMITTED TEXT) ³⁴ watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances. ³⁵ For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and in them is prepared favour from the Lord. ³⁶ But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls: and they that hate me love death.

²⁰ Hear, son, the instruction of thy father, that thou mayest be wise at thy latter end.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear to the words of wise men: hear also my word, and apply thine heart,

² Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.

⁹ And now, my son Solomon, know the God of thy fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and willing soul: for the Lord searches all hearts, and knows every thought: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou shouldest forsake him, he will forsake thee for ever.

¹⁹ But if ye should turn away, and forsake my ordinances and my commandments, which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;

⁴ For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.

³ My heart shall be found pure by my words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.

^{1 (48:1)} For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core. Hear these words, all ye nations, hearken, all ye that dwell upon the earth: ^{2 (48:2)} both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together. ^{3 (48:3)} My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall bring forth understanding.

^{30 (88:30)} If his children should forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; ^{31 (88:31)} if they should profane my ordinances, and not keep my commandments; ^{32 (88:32)} I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges.

⁶ Hearken to me; for I will speak solemn truths; and will produce right sayings from my lips. ⁷ For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing in them wrong or perverse. ⁹ They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.

²⁰ And do thou too repeatedly record them for thyself on the table of thine heart, for counsel and knowledge. ²¹ I therefore teach thee truth, and knowledge good to hear; that thou mayest answer words of truth to them that question thee.

²⁴ And David comforted Bersabee his wife, and he went in to her, and lay with her; and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his named Solomon, and the Lord loved him. ²⁵ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jeddedi, for the Lord's sake.

¹³ Haste, and go in to king David, and thou shalt speak to him, saying, Hast not thou, my lord, O king, sworn to thine handmaid, saying, Thy son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then does Adonias reign? ¹⁴ And behold, while thou art still speaking there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and will confirm thy words. ¹⁵ So Bersabee went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old, and Abisag the Somanite was ministering to the king. ¹⁶ And Bersabee bowed, and did obeisance to the king; and the king said, What is thy request? ¹⁷ And she said, My lord, thou didst swear by the Lord thy God to thine handmaid, saying, Thy son Solomon shall reign after me, and shall sit upon my throne.

⁵ And these were born to him in Jerusalem; Samaa, Sobab, Nathan, and Solomon; four of Bersabee the daughter of Amiel:

⁵ And David said, My son Solomon is a tender child, and the house for me to build to the Lord is for superior magnificence for a name and for a glory through all the earth: I will make preparation for it. And David prepared abundantly before his death.

¹ And David the king said to all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom the Lord has chosen, is young and tender, and the work is great; for it is not for man, but for the Lord God.

²³ I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon me, because they have mocked me, and they shall make lamentation for him, as for a beloved friend, and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

¹⁹ For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraam all things whatsoever he has spoken to him.

³ Ye shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which ye dwelt: and according to the devices of the land of Chanaan, into which I bring you, ye shall not do; and ye shall not walk in their ordinances. ⁴ Ye shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God. ⁵ So ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God.

⁹ Take heed to thyself, and keep thy heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thine heart all the days of thy life; and thou shalt teach thy sons and thy sons' sons,

⁶ And these words, all that I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart and in thy soul.

¹¹ And now, my son, the Lord shall be with thee, and prosper thee; and thou shalt build a house to the Lord thy God, as he spoke concerning thee. ¹² Only may the Lord give thee wisdom and prudence, and strengthen thee over Israel, both to keep and to do the law of the Lord thy God. ¹³ Then will he prosper thee, if thou take heed to do the commandments and judgments which the Lord commanded Moses for Israel: be courageous and strong; fear not, nor be terrified. ¹⁴ And, behold, I according to my poverty have prepared for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver, and brass and iron without measure; for it is abundant; and I have prepared timber and stones; and do thou add to these. ¹⁵ And of them that are with thee do thou add to the multitude of workmen; let there be artificers and masons, and carpenters, and every skilful workman in every work; ¹⁶ in gold and silver, brass and iron, of which there is no number. Arise and do, and the Lord be with thee.

^{11 (118:11)} I have hidden thine oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

¹ My son, forget not my laws; but let thine heart keep my words:

² keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

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³ Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: hearken to me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.

² And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

¹¹ And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,

^{18 (43:18)} And our heart has not gone back; but thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.

^{51 (118:51)} The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from thy law.

^{157 (118:157)} Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: but I have not declined from thy testimonies.

²² So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs. ²³ Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

² thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son. ³ For it thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding; ⁴ and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

¹³ Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence. ¹⁴ For it is better to traffic for her, than for treasures of gold and silver. ¹⁵ And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her: she is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value. ¹⁶ For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: ^(3:16A) out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue. ¹⁷ Her ways are good ways, and all her paths are peaceful. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

⁵ O ye simple, understand subtlety, and ye that are untaught, imbibe knowledge.

¹⁶ The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.

¹⁶ Why has the fool wealth? for a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom. ^(17:16A) He that exalts his own house seeks ruin; and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischief.

¹ A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses; but at all times he will be liable to reproach.

⁸ He that procures wisdom loves himself; and he that keeps wisdom shall find good.

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¹⁰ For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul, ¹¹ good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee; ¹² to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

²¹ that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart. ²² For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

^{16 (48:16)} Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased. ^{17 (48:17)} For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him. ^{18 (48:18)} For his soul shall be blessed in his life: he shall give thanks to thee when thou dost well to him. ^{19 (48:19)} Yet he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light. ^{20 (48:20)} Man that is in honour, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like them.

^{104 (118:104)} I gain understanding by thy commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.

⁶ He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on to the snares of death.

⁴ I enlarged my work; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards. ⁵ I made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit-tree. ⁶ I made me pools of water, to water from them the timber-bearing wood. ⁷ I got servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house: also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem. ⁸ Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, and the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces: I procured me singing men and singing women, and delights of the sons of men, a butler and female cupbearers. ⁹ So I became great, and advanced beyond all that were before in Jerusalem: also my wisdom was established to me.

⁸ There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother: yet there is no end to all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with wealth; and for whom do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? this is also vanity, and an evil trouble.

^{12 (7:13)} For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.

¹⁶ And I said Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nought, and his words not listened to. ¹⁷ The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly. ¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war: and one sinner will destroy much good.

³⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, I said, Thy house and the house of thy father shall pass before me for ever: but now the Lord says, That be far from me; for I will only honour them that honour me, and he that sets me at nought shall be despised.

⁵ And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some petition for thyself. ⁶ And Solomon said, Thou hast dealt very mercifully with thy servant David my father according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee, and thou hast kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as it is this day. ⁷ And now, O Lord my God, thou hast appointed thy servant in the room of David my father; and I am a little child, and know not my going out an my coming in. ⁸ But thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen, a great people, which cannot be numbered. ⁹ Thou shalt give therefore to thy servant a heart to hear and to judge thy people justly, and to discern between good and evil: for who will be able to judge this thy great people? ¹⁰ And it was pleasing before the Lord, that Solomon asked this thing. ¹¹ And the Lord said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing of me, and hast not asked for thyself long life, and hast not asked wealth, nor hast asked the lives of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to hear judgement; ¹² behold, I have done according to thy word: behold, I have given thee an understanding and wise heart: there has not been any one like thee before thee, and after thee there shall not arise one like thee. ¹³ And I have given thee what thou hast not asked, wealth and glory, so that there has not been any one like thee among kings.

³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory; but the ungodly have exalted their own dishonour.

⁴ The fear of the Lord is the offspring of wisdom, and wealth, and glory, and life.

³ And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous as the stars for ever and ever.

⁹ For thou shalt receive for thine head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round thy neck.

²² that thy soul may live, and that there may be grace round thy neck; ^(3:22A) and it shall be health to thy flesh, and safety to thy bones:

³¹ Old age is a crown of honour, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

⁵ In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven crown of glory, to the remnant of the people.

¹⁶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God commanded thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long upon the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

² That ye may fear the Lord your God, keep ye all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command thee to-day, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, all the days of thy life, that ye may live many days.

²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;

² for length of existence, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

¹⁶ For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: ^(3:16A) out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.

¹⁰ Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than tried gold.

²⁰ Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbour a dirge.

⁵ Behold, I have shewn you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that ye should do so in the land into which ye go to inherit it.

²³ And far be it from me to sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will serve the Lord, and shew you the good and the right way. ²⁴ Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth and with all your heart, for ye see what great things he has wrought with you.

^{3 (22:3)} He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake.

^{4 (24:4)} Shew me thy ways, O Lord; and teach me thy paths. ^{5 (24:5)} Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art God my Saviour: and I have waited on thee all the day.

⁴ who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:

⁶ Hearken to me; for I will speak solemn truths; and will produce right sayings from my lips.

⁹ They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.

²⁰ I walk in ways of righteousness, and am conversant with the paths of judgement;

⁹ And because the Preacher was wise above others, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables.

³⁷ so as to make room under me for my going, and my legs did not totter.

⁷ Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him. ⁸ His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.

^{36 (17:36)} Thou has made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail.

^{11 (90:11)} For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. ^{12 (90:12)} They shall bear thee up on their hands, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

^{165 (118:165)} Great peace have they that love thy law: and there is no stumbling-block to them.

²³ that thou mayest go confidently in peace in all thy ways, and that thy foot may not stumble.

¹⁹ But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

²² Whensoever thou walkest, lead this along and let it be with thee; that it may talk with thee when thou wakest.

^{9 (38:9)} They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

⁴⁷ For this is no vain word to you; for it is your life, and because of this word ye shall live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

⁴ It was as a little while after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of evil men.

^{4 (25:4)} I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors. ^{5 (25:5)} I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.

¹⁰ My son, let not ungodly men lead thee astray, neither consent thou to them.

¹⁵ go not in the way with them, but turn aside thy foot from their paths:

⁶ Leave folly, that ye may reign for ever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.

²⁰ If thou walkest with wise men thou shalt be wise: but he that walks with fools shall be known.

⁷ Thou shalt abstain from every unjust thing: thou shalt not slay the innocent and just, and thou shalt not justify the wicked for gifts.

¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in thy hands, put if far from thee, and let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation.

²³ And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation.

⁸ Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:

⁵ that thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

¹⁵ He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgement of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

^{4 (35:4)} He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

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²⁰ But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest.

¹ They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

⁵ And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones. ⁶ They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

^{4 (13:4)} Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.

¹⁷ Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.

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²⁶ For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them. ²⁷ As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich: ²⁸ and they have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

²⁵ whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and thy widows are multiplied in the midst of thee. ²⁶ Her priests also have set at nought my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have his their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷ Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain. ²⁸ And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken. ²⁹ That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

⁴ Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth, ⁵ saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair? ⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and when nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

¹² whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?

³ Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morrow.

⁴ And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

¹⁷ And thy prayer shall be as the morning star, and life shall arise to thee as from the noonday.

¹⁰ For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.

^{7 (83:7)} They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

⁷ The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.

^{3 (6:4)} let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

⁶ And it shall come to pass in that day that there shall be no light, ⁷ and there shall be for one day cold and frost, and that day shall be known to the Lord, and it shall not be day nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.

⁹ granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail.

¹⁴ In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

²⁵ Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up. ⁶ His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness.

¹³ Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

⁹ Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity. ¹⁰ They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

¹² Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.

^{1 (77:1)} A Psalm of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

^{12 (89:12)} and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

²⁰ My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother: ²¹ but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.

¹ My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. ^(7:2) My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:

^{8 (39:8)} I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.

³ Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck:

²¹ My son, let them not pass from thee, but keep my counsel and understanding:

¹ My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. ^(7:2) My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him: ² keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

⁸ Then shall there be health to thy body, and good keeping to thy bones.

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my words; and the years of thy life shall be increased, that the resources of thy life may be many.

¹⁸ Some wound as they speak, like swords; but the tongues of the wise heal.

^{6 (40:6)} Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show myself to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.

^{23 (138:23)} Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; ^{24 (138:24)} and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.

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¹⁶ A gracious wife brings glory to her husband: but a woman hating righteousness is a theme of dishonour. The slothful come to want: but the diligent support themselves with wealth.

³ He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: but he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself.

⁵ Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; but he that keeps his soul will refrain from them.

¹⁹ Hear, my son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of thine heart.

²⁶ He that trusts to a bold heart, such an one is a fool: but he that walks in wisdom shall be safe.

^{13 (5:12)} There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, namely, wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.

⁹ The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him?

¹² A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.

⁸ All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing in them wrong or perverse.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, and insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.

²⁰ and the hard-hearted man comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;

³¹ Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should ye die, O house of Israel?

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.

^{37 (118:37)} Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken thou me in thy way.

⁵ If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

³³ Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.

^{23 (36:23)} The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord: and he will take pleasure in his way.

^{2 (39:2)} And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

^{5 (118:5)} O that my ways were directed to keep thine ordinances.

^{59 (118:59)} I thought on thy ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

⁶ For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.

²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.

²⁸ and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

⁵ And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.

⁷ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways.

³² And ye shall take heed to do as the Lord thy God commanded thee; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,

³² Every word that I command you this day, it shalt thou observe to do: thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not turn aside from any of the commandments, which I charge thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

⁷ Be strong, therefore, and quit thyself like a man, to observe and do as Moses my servant commanded thee; and thou shalt not turn therefrom to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest be wise in whatsoever thou mayest do.

¹⁷ The paths of life turn aside from evil; and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity; and he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways, preserves his own soul; and he that loves his life will spare his mouth.

¹⁶ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;