Proverbs 19 Cross References - LXX2012

³ The folly of a man spoils his ways: and he blames God in his heart. ⁴ Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has. ⁵ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that accuses unjustly shall not escape. ⁶ Many court the favor of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to [another] man. ⁷ Every one who hates [his] poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that used provoking words shall not escape. ⁸ He that procures wisdom loves himself; and he that keeps wisdom shall find good. ⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it. ¹⁰ Delight does not suit a fool, nor [is it seemly] if a servant should begin to rule with haughtiness. ¹¹ A merciful man is longsuffering; and his triumph overtakes transgressors. ¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor. ¹³ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows [paid out] of the hire of a harlot are not pure. ¹⁴ Fathers divide house and substance to [their] children: but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord. ¹⁵ Cowardice possesses the effeminate [man]; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger. ¹⁶ He that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he that despises his ways shall perish. ¹⁷ He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift. ¹⁸ Chasten your son, for so he shall be hopeful; and be not exalted in your soul to haughtiness. ¹⁹ A malicious man shall be severely punished, and if he commit injury, he shall also lose his life. ²⁰ Hear, son, the instruction of your father, that you may be wise at your latter end. ²¹ [There are] many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord abides for ever. ²² Mercy is a fruit to a man: and a poor man is better than a rich liar. ²³ The fear of the Lord is life to a man: and he shall lodge without fear in places where knowledge is not seen. ²⁴ He that unjustly hides his hands in his bosom, will not even [bring] them up to his mouth. ²⁵ When a pestilent character is scourged, a simple man is made wiser: and if you reprove a wise man, he will understand discretion. ²⁶ He that dishonors his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach. ²⁷ A son who ceases to attend to the instruction of a father will cherish evil designs. ²⁸ He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: and the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgment. ²⁹ Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.

¹⁷ And now do you consider, and see what you will do; for mischief is determined against our lord and against his house; and he [is] a vile character, and one can’t speak to him.

²⁵ Let not my lord, I pray you, take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I your handmaid saw not the servants of my lord whom you did send.

¹¹ Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of mine enemies.

²⁶ A just arbitrator shall be his own friend; but mischief shall pursue sinners; and the way of ungodly men shall lead them astray.

² He that walks uprightly fears the Lord; but he that is perverse in his ways shall be dishonored.

¹⁶ Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without the fear [of the Lord].

²² Mercy is a fruit to a man: and a poor man is better than a rich liar.

⁷ He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed.

⁶ A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar.

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

⁵ But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:

¹⁶ [For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood. ]

²¹ The lips of the righteous know sublime [truths]: but the foolish die in lack.

²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

⁸ Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest you repent at last.

²⁰ A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: but the wicked shall not be unpunished.

²² An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

²⁰ If you see a man hasty in [his] words, know that the fool has hope rather than he.

⁹ The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.

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.

¹¹ And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of [the grass] being parched. Come hither, you⌃ women that come from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy [upon them].

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious [stone], for its foundations; and he that believes [on him] shall by no means be ashamed.

⁶ My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall not minister as priest to me: and [as] you has forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate. ⁷ And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them. ⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden. ⁹ And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, Adam, where are you? ¹⁰ And he said to him, I heard your voice as you walked in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself. ¹¹ And God said to him, Who told you that you were naked, unless you have eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it alone not to eat? ¹² And Adam said, The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.

⁵ but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell. ⁶ And the Lord God said to Cain, Why are you become very sorrowful and why is your countenance fallen? ⁷ Hast you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him. ⁸ And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him. ⁹ And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? and he said, I know not, am I my brother's keeper? ¹⁰ And the Lord said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me out of the ground. ¹¹ And now you [are] cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. ¹² When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth. ¹³ And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime [is] too great for me to be forgiven. ¹⁴ If you cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from your presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall kill me.

¹⁹ And Core raised up against them all his company by the door of the tabernacle of witness; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation. ²⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²¹ Separate your selves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once. ²² And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, if one man has sinned, [shall] the wrath of the Lord [be] upon the whole congregation? ²³ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ Speak to the congregation, saying, Depart from the company of Core round about. ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiron, and all the elders of Israel went with him. ²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you⌃ be consumed with them in all their sin. ²⁷ And they stood aloof from the tent of Core round about; and Dathan and Abiron went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store. ²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby shall you⌃ know that the Lord has sent me to perform all these works, that [I have] not [done them] of myself. ²⁹ If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. ³⁰ But if the Lord shall show by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then you⌃ shall know that these men have provoked the Lord. ³¹ And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clave asunder beneath them. ³² And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle. ³³ And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also]. ³⁵ And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. ³⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, ³⁷ and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, Take up the brazen censers out of the midst of the men that have been burnt, and scatter the strange fire yonder, for they have sanctified the censers ³⁸ of these sinners against their own souls, and do you make them beaten plates a covering to the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel. ³⁹ And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest took the brazen censers, which the men who had been burnt brought near, and they put them as a covering on the altar: ⁴⁰ a memorial to the children of Israel that no stranger might draw near, who is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense before the Lord; so he shall not be as Core and as they that conspired with him, as the Lord spoke to him by the hand of Moses. ⁴¹ And the children of Israel murmured the next day against Moses and Aaron, saying, You⌃ have killed the people of the Lord.

¹² And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we are cut off, we are destroyed, we are consumed. ¹³ Every one that touches the tabernacle of the Lord, dies: shall we die utterly?

¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; for you have not kept my command, which the Lord commanded you, as now the Lord would have confirmed your kingdom over Israel for ever.

²³ For sin is [as] divination; idols bring on pain and grief. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord also shall reject you from being king over Israel.

¹³ And Saul said to him, Why have you and the son of Jessae conspired against me, that you should give him bread and a sword, and should enquire of God for him, to raise him up against me as an enemy, as [he is] this day? ¹⁴ And he answered the king, and said, And who [is] there among all your servants faithful as David, and [he is] a son-in-law of the king, and [he is] executor of all your commands, and [is] honorable in your house? ¹⁵ Have I begun today to enquire of God for him? By no means: let not the king bring a charge against his servant, and against you whole of my father's house; for your servant knew not in all these matters anything great or small. ¹⁶ And king Saul said, You shall surely die, Abimelech, you, and all your father's house. ¹⁷ And the king said to the footmen that attended on him, Draw near and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand [is] with David, and because they knew that he fled, and they did not inform me. But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to fall upon the priest of the Lord. ¹⁸ And the king said to Doec, Turn you, and fall upon the priests: and Doec the Syrian turned, and killed the priests of the Lord in that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing an ephod. ¹⁹ And he struck Nomba the city of the priest with the edge of the sword, both man, and woman, infant and suckling, and calf, and ox, and sheep. ²⁰ And one son of Abimelech son of Achitob escapes, and his name [was] Abiathar, and he fled after David. ²¹ And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain all the priests of the Lord. ²² And David said to Abiathar, I knew it in that day, that Doec the Syrian would surely tell Saul: I am guilty of the death of the house of your father. ²³ Dwell with me; fear not, for wherever I shall seek a place [of safety] for my life, I will also seek a place for your life, for you are safely guarded [while] with me.

⁹ And the king of Israel went, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey; and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that went with them. ¹⁰ And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord should have called the three kings on their way, to give them into the hand of Moab.

³³ While he was yet speaking with them, behold, a messenger came to him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord look upon all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with you. ¹⁰ And Asa was angry with the prophet, and put him in prison, for he was angry at this: and Asa vexed some of the people at that time.

¹ (38) A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.

⁷ For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

³ When a just man dies he leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy.

²¹ And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, [that] when you⌃ shall be hungry, you⌃ shall be grieved, and you⌃ shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above, ²² and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that [one can’t] see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.

¹⁵ My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave. ¹⁶ They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice. ¹⁷ When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was. ¹⁸ Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast. ¹⁹ Behold the ways of the Thaemanites, you⌃ that mark the paths of the Sabaeans. ²⁰ They too that trust in cities and riches shall come to shame. ²¹ But you⌃ also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound you⌃ are afraid. ²² What? have I made any demand of you? or do I ask for strength from you, ²³ to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?

¹³ My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers [rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless. ¹⁴ My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me. ¹⁵ [As for] my household, and my maidservants, I was a stranger before them. ¹⁶ I called my servant, and he listened not; and my mouth entreated [him]. ¹⁷ And I implored my wife, and earnestly entreated the sons of my concubines.

¹⁵ The wealth of rich men is a strong city; but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.

²⁰ Friends will hate poor friends; but the friends of the rich are many.

⁶ Many court the favor of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to [another] man. ⁷ Every one who hates [his] poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that used provoking words shall not escape.

¹ You shall not receive a vain report: you shall not agree with the unjust [man] to become an unjust witness.

¹¹ You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

¹⁶ And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him; ¹⁷ then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days. ¹⁸ And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, [if] and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; [and] has stood up against his brother; ¹⁹ then shall you⌃ do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves. ²⁰ And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you. ²¹ Your eye shall not spare him: [you shall exact] life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

⁹ But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.

³ Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber. ⁴ Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep.

¹⁹ An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.

²⁸ A false witness shall perish; but an obedient man will speak cautiously.

²⁴ And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, and their children, and their wives: and they reached not the bottom of the den before the lions had the mastery of them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.

²⁰ and you⌃ shall say, Behold your servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will behold his face, for perhaps he will accept me.

⁶ And Joseph was ruler of the land; he sold to all the people of the land. And the brethren of Joseph, having come, did reverence to him, [bowing] with the face to the ground.

¹⁵ And the men having taken these presents, and the double money, took in their hands also Benjamin; and they rose up and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

¹⁹ and said to the king, Let not my lord now impute iniquity, and remember not all the iniquity of your servant in the day in which my lord went out from Jerusalem, so that the king should mind it. ²⁰ For your servant knows that I have sinned: and, behold, I am come today before all Israel and the house of Joseph, to go down and meet my lord the king. ²¹ And Abessai the son of Saruia answered and said, Shall not Semei therefore be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed? ²² And David said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia, that you⌃ as it were lie in wait against me this day? today no man in Israel shall be put to death, for I know not if I this day reign over Israel. ²³ And the king said to Semei, You shall not die: and the king swore to him. ²⁴ And Memphibosthe the son of Saul's son went down to meet the king, and had not dressed his feet, nor pared his nails, nor shaved himself, neither had he washed his garments, from the day that the king departed, until the day when he arrived in peace. ²⁵ And it came to pass when he went into Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Memphibosthe? ²⁶ And Memphibosthe said to him, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, Saddle me the ass, and I will ride upon it, and go with the king; for your servant [is] lame. ²⁷ And he has dealt deceitfully with your servant to my lord the king: but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God, and do you that which is good in your eyes. ²⁸ For all the house of my father were but as dead men before my lord the king; yet you have set your servant among them that eat at your table: and what right have I any longer even to cry to the king? ²⁹ And the king said to him, Why speak you any longer of your matters? I have said, You and Siba shall divide the land. ³⁰ And Memphibosthe said to the king, Yes, let him take all, since my lord the king has come in peace to his house. ³¹ And Berzelli the Galaadite came down from Rogellim, and crossed over Jordan with the king, that he might conduct the king over Jordan. ³² And Berzelli was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he lived in Manaim; for he was a very great man. ³³ And the king said to Berzelli, You shall go over with me, and I will nourish your old age with me in Jerusalem. ³⁴ And Berzelli said to the king, How many [are] the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? ³⁵ I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and therefore shall your servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king? ³⁶ Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why does the king return me this recompense? ³⁷ Let, I pray you, your servant remain, and I will die in my city, by the tomb of my father and of my mother. And, behold, your servant Chamaam shall go over with my lord the king; and do you to him as it seems good in your eyes. ³⁸ And the king said, Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do to him what is good in my sight; and whatever you shall choose at my hand, I will do for you. ³⁹ And all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Berzelli, and blessed him; and he returned to his place.

²⁴ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe [it]; and the light of my face has not failed. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and lived as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

¹⁵ The son of a king is in the light of life; and they that are in favor with him are as a cloud of latter rain.

⁸ Instruction is to them that use it a gracious reward; and wherever it may turn, it shall prosper.

¹⁶ A man's gift enlarges him, and seats him among princes.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.

¹⁴ A secret gift calms anger: but he that forbears to give stirs up strong wrath.

²⁶ Many wait on the favor of rulers; but justice comes to a man from the Lord.

¹¹ You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is like to you? you are mighty, O Lord, and your truth is round about you.

¹⁸ for [our] help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our king.

⁴ Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.

¹³ He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].

¹⁵ and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man. ¹⁶ And I said Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nothing, and his words not listened to.

¹ [My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you; ² your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son. ³ For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding; ⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding, ⁷ and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way; ⁸ that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him. ⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment; and shall direct all your course aright.

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.

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

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

⁶ And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.

²¹ that your fountains may not fail you; keep them in [your] heart.

³⁵ For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and [in them] is prepared favor from the Lord. ³⁶ But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls: and they that hate me love death.

²⁰ [He who is] skillful in business finds good: but he that trusts in God is most blessed.

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

¹⁸ that you may know that they are good: and if you lay them to heart, they shall also gladden you on your lips.

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

⁵ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that accuses unjustly shall not escape.

¹⁵ the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail. ¹⁶ And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them. ¹⁷ Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this [his] anger is not turned away, but [his] hand is yet exalted.

²⁵ I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision. ²⁶ How long shall [these things] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart? ²⁷ who devise that [men] may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name in [the worship of] Baal. ²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is my word [spoken] to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, says the Lord. ²⁹ Behold, are not my words as fire? says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock? ³⁰ Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, says the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbor. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep. ³² Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them [truly], and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.

¹⁵ The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven. ¹⁶ At [his] voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures. ¹⁷ Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven [images]: for they have cast false [gods], there is no breath in them.

²² Because you⌃ have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and [that] in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live:

³⁶ And Abigaia came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in this house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal [was] merry within him, and he [was] very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light.

²⁴ And Joab went in to the king, and said, What [is] this [that] you have done? behold, Abenner came to you; and why have you let him go, and he has departed in peace? ²⁵ Know you not the mischief of Abenner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all things that you do?

³⁹ And that I am this day a [mere] kinsman [of his], and [as it were] a subject; but these men the sons of Saruia are too hard for me: the Lord reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness.

¹⁵ And the business was hastened, and [that] at Susa: and the king and Aman began to drink; but the city was troubled.

⁷ Faithful lips will not suit a fool; nor lying lips a just man.

¹ As dew in harvest, and as rain in summer, so honor is not [seemly] for a fool.

²¹ By three thing the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear: ²² if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, wherein an error has proceeded from the ruler. ⁶ The fool has been set in very high places, while rich men would sit in a low one. ⁷ I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants on the earth.

⁵ And the people shall fall, man upon man, and [every] man upon his neighbor: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honorable.

¹¹ Woe [to them] that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait [at it till] evening: for the wine shall inflame them. ¹² For they drink wine with harp, and lute, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

¹² And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth: ¹³ but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die. ¹⁴ And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until you⌃ die.

³ They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies. ⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. ⁵ [In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

¹ Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as [other] nations: for you have gone a-whoring from your God; you have loved gifts upon every threshing floor.

³ You⌃ who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths; ⁴ who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls; ⁵ who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as dwelling, not as fleeting [pleasures]; ⁶ who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.

¹⁵ And when the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, [Let us take heed], lest at any time Joseph remember evil against us, and recompense to us all the evils which we have done against him. ¹⁶ And they came to Joseph, and said, Your father adjured [us] before his death, saying, ¹⁷ Thus say you⌃ to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done you evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him. ¹⁸ And they came to him and said, We, these [persons], are your servants. ¹⁹ And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am God's. ²⁰ You⌃ took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that [the matter] might be as [it is] today, and much people might be fed. ²¹ And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

¹⁶ A fool declares his wrath the same day; but a prudent man hides his own disgrace.

¹⁸ A passionate man stirs up strife; but [he that is] slow to anger appeases even a rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs [them] up.

³² A man slow to anger is better than a strong [man]; and he that governs [his] temper better than he that takes a city.

¹⁴ Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.

³ [It is] a glory to a man to turn aside from railing; but every fool is entangled with such matters.

²¹ If your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink;

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.

⁸ And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Will you even force [my] wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.

⁶ Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

³ May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless you out of Sion.

¹⁴ The anger of a king is a messenger of death; but a wise man will pacify him. ¹⁵ The son of a king is in the light of life; and they that are in favor with him are as a cloud of latter rain.

² The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.

¹⁵ A hungry lion and a thirsty wolf [is he], who, being poor, rules over a poor nation.

⁴ even as a king having power: and who will say to him, What do you?

¹² Then the king in rage and anger commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. ¹³ So the decree went forth, and they began to kill the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to kill [them].

¹⁹ Then Nabuchodonosor was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times [more than usual], until it should burn to the uttermost. ²⁰ And he commanded mighty men to bind Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast [them] into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then those men were bound with their coats, and caps, and hose, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace, ²² forasmuch as the king's word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceeding hot. ²³ Then these three men, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked in the midst of the flame, singing praise to God, and blessing the Lord.

¹⁹ and by reason of the majesty which he gave to him, all nations, tribes, [and] languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed; and whom he would he struck; and whom he would he exalted; and whom he would he abased.

⁵ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.

¹ And it happened after this that Abessalom the son of David had a very beautiful sister, and her name [was] Themar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. ² And Amnon was distressed even to sickness, because of Themar his sister; for she was a virgin, and it seemed very difficult for Amnon to do anything to her. ³ And Amnon had a friend, and his name [was] Jonadab, the son of Samaa the brother of David: and Jonadab [was] a very cunning man. ⁴ And he said to him, What ails you that you are thus weak? O son of the king, morning by morning? will you not tell me? and Ammon said, I love Themar the sister of my brother Abessalom. ⁵ And Jonadab said to him, Lie upon your bed, and make yourself sick, and your father shall come in to see you; and you shall say to him, Let, I pray you, Themar my sister come, and feed me with morsels, and let her prepare food before my eyes, that I may see and eat at her hands. ⁶ So Ammon lay down, and made himself sick; and the king came in to see him: and Amnon said to the king, Let, I pray you, my sister Themar come to me, and make a couple of cakes in my sight, and I will eat them at her hand. ⁷ And David sent to Themar to the house, saying, Go now to your brother's house, and dress him food. ⁸ And Themar went to the house of her brother Amnon, and he [was] lying down: and she took the dough and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes. ⁹ And she took the frying pan and poured them out before him, but he would not eat. And Amnon said, Send out every man from about me. And they removed every man from about him. ¹⁰ And Amnon said to Themar, Bring in the food into the closet, and I will eat of your hand. And Themar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them to her brother Amnon into the chamber. ¹¹ And she brought [them] to him to eat, and he caught hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister. ¹² And she said to him, Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it ought not to be so done in Israel; do not this folly. ¹³ And I, whither shall I remove my reproach? and you shall be as one of the fools in Israel. And now, speak, I pray you, to the king, for surely he will not keep me from you. ¹⁴ But Amnon would not listen to her voice; and he prevailed against her, and humbled her, and lay with her. ¹⁵ Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her, for the last wickedness was greater than the first: and Amnon said to her, Rise, and be gone. ¹⁶ And Themar spoke to him concerning this great mischief, greater, [said she], than the other that you did me, to send me away: but Amnon would not listen to her voice. ¹⁷ And he called his servant who had charge of the house, and said to him, Put now this [woman] out from me, and shut the door after her. ¹⁸ And she had on her a variegated robe, for so were the king's daughters that were virgins attired in their apparel: and his servant led her forth, and shut the door after her.

¹⁹ The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong [overflow] a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man.

¹ A wise son makes [his] father glad: but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

²⁰ A wise son gladdens [his] father; but a foolish son sneers at his mother.

²¹ and the heart of a fool is grief to its possessor. A father rejoices not over an uninstructed son; but a wise son gladdens his mother.

²⁵ A foolish son [is a cause of] anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.

⁹ [It is] better to dwell in a corner on the house-top, than in plastered [rooms] with unrighteousness, and in an open house.

¹⁹ [It is] better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.

²⁴ [It is] better to dwell on a corner of the roof, than with a railing woman in an open house.

¹⁵ On a stormy day drops [of rain] drive a man out of his house; so also does a railing woman [drive a man] out of his own house.

¹⁸ And I hated the whole of my labor which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labor in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity.

⁷ The Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land whence I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to you and to your seed, he shall send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife to my son from thence.

¹ And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites. ² Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of your mother, and take to yourself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. ³ And may my God bless you, and increase you, and multiply you, and you shall become gatherings of nations. ⁴ And may he give you the blessing of my father Abraam, even to you and to your seed after you, to inherit the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraam.

¹⁶ then it shall be that whenever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the right of the firstborn to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the firstborn.

²³ And Joshua took all the land, as the Lord commanded Moses; and Joshua gave them for an inheritance to Israel by division according to their tribes; and the land ceased from war.

⁶ In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths.

²² A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.

²² He that has found a good wife has found favours, and has received gladness from God. [He that puts away a good wife, puts away a good thing, and he that keeps an adulteress is foolish and ungodly.]

¹⁰ Who shall find a virtuous woman? for such a one is more valuable than precious stones. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her: such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils. ¹² For she employs all her living for her husband's good. ¹³ Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands. ¹⁴ She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood. ¹⁵ And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and [appointed] tasks to her maidens. ¹⁶ She views a farm, and buys it: and with the fruit of her hands she plants and a possession. ¹⁷ She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work. ¹⁸ And she finds by experience that working is good; and her candle goes not out all night. ¹⁹ She reaches forth her arms to needful [works], and applies her hands to the spindle. ²⁰ And she opens her hands to the needy, and reaches out fruit to the poor. ²¹ Her husband is not anxious about those at home when he tarries anywhere abroad: for all her household are clothed. ²² She makes for her husband clothes of double texture, and garments for herself of fine linen and scarlet. ²³ And her husband becomes a distinguished [person] in the gates, when he sits in council with the old inhabitants of the land. ²⁴ She makes fine linens, and sells girdles to the Chananites: she opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, and controls her tongue. ²⁵ She puts on strength and honor; and rejoices in the last days. ²⁶ But she opens her mouth wisely, and according to law. ²⁷ The ways of her household are careful, and she eats not the bread of idleness. ²⁸ And [her] kindness to them sets up her children for them, and they grow rich, and her husband praises her. ²⁹ Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but you have exceeded, you have surpassed all. ³⁰ Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord. ³¹ Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.

⁹ How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep? ¹⁰ You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short [time], and you fold your arms over your breast a little.

⁴ Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich. A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant. ⁵ A wise son is saved from heat: but a lawless son is blighted of the winds in harvest.

²⁴ He that unjustly hides his hands in his bosom, will not even [bring] them up to his mouth.

¹³ Love not to speak ill, lest you be cut off: open your eyes, and be filled with bread.

²¹ for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

³³ [The sluggard says, ]I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across [my] breast.

¹⁰ See how they are all blinded: they have not known; [they are] dumb dogs [that] will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

¹⁸ The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, [and] the rock for the rabbits.

¹ [My] son, forget not my laws; but let your heart keep my words:

¹³ He that slights a matter shall be slighted of it: but he that fears the commandment has health [of soul]. To a crafty son there shall be nothing good: but a wise servant shall have prosperous doings, and his way shall be directed aright.

³² He that rejects instruction hates himself; but he that mind reproofs loves his soul.

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.

²³ He that keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble.

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

¹⁸ There shall be no interpreter to a sinful nation: but he that observes the law is blessed.

⁵ He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment.

¹³ Hear the end of the matter, the sun: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole man.

²³ but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear you⌃ my voice, and I will be to you a God, and you⌃ shall be to me a people: and walk you⌃ in all my ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.

⁵ Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him: but the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.

⁷ And if there shall be in the midst of you a poor [man] of your brethren in one of your cities in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, neither shall you by any means close up your hand from your brother who is in lack. ⁸ You shall surely open your hands to him, and shall lend to him as much as he wants according to his need. ⁹ Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, draws near; and your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in lack, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you. ¹⁰ You shall surely give to him, and you shall lend him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your hand. ¹¹ For the poor shall not fail off your land, therefore I charge you to do this thing, saying, You shall surely open your hands to your poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon your land. ¹² And if your brother [or sister], a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out free from you. ¹³ And when you shall send him out free from you, you shall not send him out empty. ¹⁴ You shall give him provision for the way from your flock, and from your corn, and from your wine; as the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

⁶ And he shall restore the lamb sevenfold, because he has not spared.

²⁴ There are [some] who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are [some] also who gather, [yet] have less. ²⁵ Every sincere soul is blessed: but a passionate man is not graceful.

¹⁴ The soul of a man shall be filled with good from the fruits of his mouth; and the recompence of his lips shall be given to him.

²¹ He that dishonors the needy sins: but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed.

³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor.

⁸ He that increases his wealth by usuries and [unjust] gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.

²⁷ He that gives to the poor shall not be in lack: but he that turns away his eye [from him] shall be in great distress.

¹ Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days.

⁷ Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you see one naked, clothe [him], and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed. ⁸ Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth: and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall compass you. ⁹ Then shall you cry, and God shall listen to you; while you are yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech; ¹⁰ and [if] you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as noon-day: ¹¹ and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain [from] which the water has not failed.

²⁴ He that spares the rod hates his son: but he that loves, carefully chastens [him].

¹⁵ Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are [then] far from him.

¹³ Refrain not from chastening a child; for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴ For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death.

¹⁵ Stripes and reproofs give wisdom: but an erring child disgraces his parents.

¹⁷ Chasten your son, and he shall give you rest; and he shall give honor to your soul.

³⁰ And Saul was exceedingly angry with Jonathan, and said to him, You son of traitorous damsels! for do I not know that you are an accomplice with the son of Jessae to your same, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? ³¹ For so long as the son of Jessae lives upon the earth, your kingdom shall not be established: now then send and take the young man, for he shall surely die.

⁷ And Saul said to his servants that stood by him, Hear now, you⌃ sons of Benjamin, will the son of Jessae indeed give all of you fields and vineyards, and will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands? ⁸ That you⌃ are conspiring against me, and there is no one that informs me, whereas my son has made a covenant with the son of Jessae, and there is no one of you that is sorry for me, or informs me, that my son has stirred up my servant against me for an enemy, as [it is] this day? ⁹ And Doec the Syrian who was over the mules of Saul answered and said, I saw the son of Jessae as he came to Nomba to Abimelech son of Achitob the priest. ¹⁰ And [the priest] enquired of God for him, and gave him provision, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. ¹¹ And the king sent to call Abimelech son of Achitob and all his father's sons, the priests that were in Nomba; and they all came to the king. ¹² And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Achitob. And he said, Behold! I [am here], speak, [my] lord.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, [Is] this your voice, Son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. ¹⁸ And Saul said to David, You [are] more righteous that I, for you have recompensed me good, but I have recompensed you evil. ¹⁹ And you have told me today what good you have done me, how the Lord shut me up into your hands today, and you did not kill me. ²⁰ And if any one should find his enemy in distress, and should send him forth in a good way, then the Lord will reward him good, as you has done this day. ²¹ And now, behold, I know that you shall surely reign, and the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. ²² Now then swear to me by the Lord, that you will not destroy my seed after me, that you will not blot out my name from the house of my father.

²¹ And Saul said, I have sinned: turn, son David, for I will not hurt you, because my life was precious in your eyes; and today I have been foolish and have erred exceedingly. ²² And David answered and said, Behold, the spear of the king: let one of the servants come over and take it. ²³ And the Lord shall recompense each according to his righteousness and his truth, since the Lord delivered you this day into my hands, and I would not lift my hand against the Lord's anointed. ²⁴ And, behold, as your life has been precious this very day in my eyes, so let my life be precious before the Lord, and may he protect me, and deliver me out of all affliction. ²⁵ And Saul said to David, Blessed [be] you, [my] son; and you shall surely do valiantly, and surely prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

⁵ And king David came to Baurim; and, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, and his name [was] Semei the son of Gera. He came forth and cursed as he went, ⁶ and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on the right and left hand of the king.

²⁴ Be not companion to a furious man; neither lodge with a passionate man: ²⁵ lest you learn of his ways, and get snares to your soul.

²⁸ As a city whose walls are broken down, and which is unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel.

²² A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up sin.

¹⁰ Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, and who shall number the families of Israel? let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, and let my seed be as their seed.

¹⁶ who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which you knew not, and your fathers knew not; that he might afflict you, and thoroughly try you, and do you good in your latter days.

²⁹ They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.

¹² They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

¹⁴ For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he has known my name.

⁸ Hear, [my] son, the instruction of your father, and reject not the rules of your mother.

¹ Hear, you⌃ children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

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 favor from the Lord.

¹⁵ The ways of fools are right in their own eyes; but a wise man hearkens to counsels.

¹⁹ And each said to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes. ²⁰ Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.

⁴ And Joseph said to his brethren, Draw near to me; and they drew near; and he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you⌃ sold into Egypt. ⁵ Now then be not grieved, and let it not seem hard to you that you⌃ sold me hither, for God sent me before you for life. ⁶ For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing. ⁷ For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you. ⁸ Now then you⌃ did not send me hither, but God; and he has made me as a father of Pharao, and lord of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.

²⁰ You⌃ took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that [the matter] might be as [it is] today, and much people might be fed.

²⁵ also how he went in to the king, telling [him] to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.

¹³ And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed [a thing] and done it.

¹¹ Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

¹⁰ The rich have become poor and hungry: but they that seek the Lord diligently shall not lack any good thing. Pause. ¹¹ Come, you⌃ children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

⁴ Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will praise you evermore. Pause.

² He that has found favor with the Lord [is made] better; but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.

¹ As a rush of water, so is the king's heart in God's hand: he turns it wherever he may desire to point out.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

²⁹ which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.

⁶ We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it; ⁷ thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

²⁴ Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so [the matter] shall remain:

²⁶ This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations. ²⁷ For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?

¹⁰ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

²⁴ And he shall enter with prosperity, and [that] into fertile districts; and he shall do what his fathers and his fathers' fathers have not done; he shall scatter among them plunder, and spoils, and wealth; and he shall devise plans against Egypt, even for a time. ²⁵ And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king of the south with a great force; and the king of the south shall engage in war with a great and very strong force; but [his forces] shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him:

² I have prepared according to all [my] might for the house of my God gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, onyx stones, and costly and variegated stones for setting, and every precious stone, and much Parian [marble]. ³ And still farther, because I took pleasure in the house of my God, I have gold and silver which I have procured for myself, and, behold, I have given them to the house of my God over and above, beyond what I have prepared for the holy house.

¹⁷ And I know, Lord, that you are he that searches the hearts, and you love righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart; and now I have seen with joy your people here present, willingly offering to you.

⁸ But the Lord said to my father David, Whereas it came into your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it came into your heart.

¹⁵ My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.

⁵ He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children.

⁹ But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth.

⁹ O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon you.

¹⁸ The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit. ¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but out of them all Lord will deliver them.

⁹ But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation. ¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him. ¹¹ Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.

⁹ All nations whom you have made shall come, and shall worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name.

¹⁷ There the sparrows will build their nests; and the house of the heron takes the lead among them.

²⁷ The fear of the Lord adds [length] of days: but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.

²¹ No injustice will please a just man; but the ungodly will be filled with mischief.

²⁶ In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and he leaves his children a support. ²⁷ The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causes [men] to turn aside from the snare of death.

¹⁶ Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.

² But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing [shall be] in his wings: and you⌃ shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

²⁷ A deceitful man shall catch no game; but a blameless man is a precious possession.

¹⁹ The ways of sluggards are strewn with thorns; but those of the diligent are made smooth.

¹⁵ Cowardice possesses the effeminate [man]; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.

³⁰ A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard. ³¹ If you let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down. ³² Afterwards I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction. ³³ [The sluggard says, ]I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across [my] breast. ³⁴ But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.

¹³ A sluggard when sent on a journey says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and [there are] murderers in the streets. ¹⁴ As a door turns on the hinge, so does a sluggard on his bed. ¹⁵ A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth. ¹⁶ A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.

¹¹ And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do according to this evil thing among you.

²¹ And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.

⁸ Rebuke not evil [men], lest they should hate you: rebuke a wise [man], and he will love you. ⁹ Give an opportunity to a wise [man], and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more [instruction]. ¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the counsel of saints is understanding: for to know the law is [the character] of a sound mind.

⁵ A fool scorns his father's instruction; but he that keeps his commandments is more prudent. In abounding righteousness is great strength: but the ungodly shall utterly perish from the earth.

¹⁰ A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; but a fool, though scourged, understands not.

¹¹ When an intemperate man is punished the simple becomes wiser: and a wise man understanding will receive knowledge.

¹⁸ And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not listen to them; ¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place: ²⁰ and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard. ²¹ And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.

⁵ A wise son is saved from heat: but a lawless son is blighted of the winds in harvest.

² A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren.

²² Listen, [my] son, to your father which begot you, and despise not [your mother] because she is grown old.

²⁴ A righteous father brings up [his children] well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son. ²⁵ Let your father and your mother rejoice over you, and let her that bore you be glad.

⁷ A wise son keeps the law: but he that keeps up debauchery dishonors his father.

¹⁴ Blessed is the man who religiously fears always: but the hard of heart shall fall into mischiefs.

²⁴ He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man.

¹¹ A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

¹ And if there arise within you a prophet, or one who dreams a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, ² and the sign or the wonder come to pass which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you⌃ know not; ³ you⌃ shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord your God tries you, to know whether you⌃ love your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴ You⌃ shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and you⌃ shall hear his voice, and attach yourselves to him.

²² And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall deceive him, yes, and shall prevail: go forth, and do so. ²³ And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against you. ²⁴ And Sedekias the son of Chanaan came near and struck Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord [has] spoken in you? ²⁵ And Michaias said, Behold, you shall see in that day, when you shall go into an innermost chamber to hide yourself there. ²⁶ And the king of Israel said, Take Michaias, and convey him away to Semer the keeper of the city; ²⁷ and tell Joas the king's son to put this [fellow] in prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace. ²⁸ And Michaias said, If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.

⁷ All things are adverse to a foolish man; but wise lips are the weapons of discretion.

¹⁰ And the son of Ader sent to him, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for foxes to all the people, even my infantry.

¹³ And, behold, a prophet came to Achaab king of Israel, and said, Thus says the Lord, Hast you seen this great multitude? behold, I give it this day into your hands; and you shall know that I [am] the Lord.

¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

¹² Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue; ¹³ though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat:

⁷ What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?

⁵ The Lord is in his holy temple, as for the Lord, his throne is in heaven: his eyes look upon the poor, his eyelids try the sons of men.

¹⁴ An upright heart seeks discretion; but the mouth of the uninstructed will experience evils.

¹⁴ Therefore hear you⌃ the word of the Lord, you⌃ afflicted men, and you⌃ princes of this people that is in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Because you⌃ have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected: ¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious [stone], for its foundations; and he that believes [on him] shall by no means be ashamed. ¹⁷ And I will cause judgment [to be] for hope, and my compassion shall be for [just] measures, and you⌃ that trust vainly in falsehood [shall fall]: for the storm shall by no means pass by you, ¹⁸ except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, you⌃ shall be beaten down by it.

⁸ They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.

³⁴ The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble.

²² And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:

¹² Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a [land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

¹³ He that brings forth wisdom from his lips smites the fool with a rod.

⁶ The lips of a fool bring [him] into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death.

³ As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass, so [is] a rod for a simple nation.

²² Therefore do not you⌃ rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.

²⁰ The lawless man has come to nothing, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed: