Proverbs 21 Cross References - LXX2012

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. ² Every man seems to himself righteous; but the Lord directs the hearts. ³ To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices. ⁴ A high-minded man is stout-hearted in [his] pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin. ⁶ He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity [on] to the snares of death. ⁷ Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly. ⁸ To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right. ⁹ [It is] better to dwell in a corner on the house-top, than in plastered [rooms] with unrighteousness, and in an open house. ¹⁰ The soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man. ¹¹ When an intemperate man is punished the simple becomes wiser: and a wise man understanding will receive knowledge. ¹² A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness. ¹³ He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him]. ¹⁴ A secret gift calms anger: but he that forbears to give stirs up strong wrath. ¹⁵ [It is] the joy of the righteous to do judgment: but a holy [man] is abominable with evil-doers. ¹⁶ A man that wanders out of the way of righteousness, shall rest in the congregation of giants. ¹⁷ A poor man loves mirth, loving wine and oil in abundance; ¹⁸ and a transgressor is the abomination of a righteous man. ¹⁹ [It is] better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman. ²⁰ A desirable treasure will rest on the mouth of the wise; but foolish men will swallow it up. ²¹ The way of righteousness and mercy will find life and glory. ²² A wise man assaults strong cities, and demolishes the fortress in which the ungodly trusted. ²³ He that keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble. ²⁴ A bold and self-willed and insolent [man] is called a pest: and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor. ²⁵ Desires kill the sluggard; for his hands do not choose to do anything. ²⁶ An ungodly man entertains evil desires all the day: but the righteous is unsparingly merciful and compassionate. ²⁷ The sacrifices of the ungodly are abomination to the Lord, for they offer them wickedly. ²⁸ A false witness shall perish; but an obedient man will speak cautiously. ²⁹ An ungodly man impudently withstands with his face; but the upright man himself understands his ways. ³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly. ³¹ A horse is prepared for the day of battle; but help is of the Lord.

²² and they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with gladness, because the Lord made them glad, and he turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the house of the God of Israel.

²⁷ Blessed [be] the Lord God of our fathers, who has put it thus into the heart of the king, to glorify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; ²⁸ and has given me favor in the eyes of the king, and of his councillors, and all the rulers of the king, the exalted ones. And I was strengthened according to the good hand of God upon me, and I gathered chief men of Israel to go up with me.

¹¹ [Turn] not [away], I pray you, O Lord, but let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who desire to fear your name: and prosper, I pray you, your servant this day, and cause him to find mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's cupbearer.

⁴ And the king said to me, For what do you ask thus? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

⁴ They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak [so].

²⁵ And they murmured in their tents: they listened not to the voice of the Lord.

³ But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatever he has pleased.

⁵ They have a mouth, but they can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see:

²⁴ A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways?

¹⁹ Behold, I [will] do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and you⌃ shall know them: and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land.

²⁷ Who says to the deep, You shall be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance, nor on his stature, for I have rejected him; for God sees not as man looks; for man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.

² For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

² All the works of the humble [man] are manifest with God; but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day.

²⁵ There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

⁶ A man is valuable, and a merciful man precious: but [it is] hard to find a faithful man.

¹² But if you should say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and he that formed breath for all, he knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.

¹² A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

¹⁰ I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

²² And Samuel said, Does the Lord take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? behold, obedience [is] better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.

⁸ You shall cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice.

⁸ The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.

¹¹ Of what [value] to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? says the Lord: I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats: ¹² neither shall you⌃ come [with these] to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? You⌃ shall no more tread my court. ¹³ Though you⌃ bring fine flour, [it is] vain; incense is an abomination to me; I can’t bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day; ¹⁴ [your] fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: you⌃ have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins. ¹⁵ When you⌃ stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though you⌃ make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities; ¹⁷ learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

²¹ Thus says the Lord, Gather your whole burnt offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh. ²² For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice: 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.

⁶ Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.

⁶ Wherewithal shall I reach the Lord, [and] lay hold of my God most high? shall I reach him by whole burnt offerings, by calves of a year old? ⁷ Will the Lord accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? should I give my firstborn for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? ⁸ Has it [not] been told you, O man, what [is] good? or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?

⁴ For they have pulled down what you did frame, but what has the righteous done?

¹⁷ The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

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.

²⁷ The sacrifices of the ungodly are abomination to the Lord, for they offer them wickedly.

¹³ A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids.

¹¹ For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁷ And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:

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.

⁴ Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.

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

²¹ A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.

²³ Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds. ²⁴ For a man [has] not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation. ²⁵ Take care of the herbage in the field, and you shall cut grass, and gather the mountain hay; ²⁶ that you may have [wool of] sheep for clothing: pay attention to the land, that you may have lambs. ²⁷ [My] son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.

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

³⁶ But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls: and they that hate me love death.

² Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.

¹¹ Wealth gotten hastily with iniquity is diminished: but he that gathers for himself with godliness shall be increased. The righteous is merciful, and lends.

⁸ He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but [a man] shall fully prove the folly of his works.

⁸ Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth [or] poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:

¹¹ The partridge utters her voice, she gathers [eggs] which she did not lay; [so is a man] gaining his wealth unjustly; in the midst of his days [his riches] shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.

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

¹⁶ His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

¹⁶ The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

¹⁸ For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

⁶ The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

²¹ The way of righteousness and mercy will find life and glory.

²² Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy: neither dishonor the helpless [man] in the gates. ²³ For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

²³ Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows. ²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty [men] of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgment on mine enemies.

⁹ and you⌃ murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom you⌃ know not, ¹⁰ so that it is evil with you; yet have you⌃ come, and stood before me in the house, whereon my name is called, and you⌃ have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations. ¹¹ Is my house, whereon my name is called, a den of robbers in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.

¹⁵ And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.

¹⁸ But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.

¹³ And if I shall strike my hand at [your iniquities] which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you, ¹⁴ shall your heart endure? shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].

⁹ Hear now these words, you⌃ chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness; ¹⁰ who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and [yet] they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us. ¹² Therefore on your account Sion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

³ And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side. ⁴ And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

⁵ And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually, ⁶ then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered [it] deeply.

¹² And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

¹⁴ For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just? ¹⁵ Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him. ¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

² He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart. ³ Who has not spoken craftily with is tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbor, nor taken up a reproach against them that lived nearest to him.

¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

²⁶ An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honor.

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.

³ There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that [they go] to the dead.

¹⁰ Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.

¹⁷ Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, than a feast of calves, with enmity.

¹ Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house [full] of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.

¹³ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows [paid out] of the hire of a harlot are not pure.

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. ¹⁶ The north wind is sharp, but it is called by name propitious.

⁸ Ask your servants, and they will tell you. Let then your servants find grace in your eyes, for we are come on a good day; give we pray you, whatever your hand may find, to your son David. ⁹ So the servants come and speak these words to Nabal, according to all these words in the name of David. ¹⁰ And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jessae? Now-a-days there is abundance of servants who depart every one from his master. ¹¹ And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my beasts that I have slain for my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are?

⁴ Delight [yourself] in the Lord; and he shall grant you the requests of your heart.

² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. ³ They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

⁹ who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.

²⁹ Devise not evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you.

¹² The desires of the ungodly are evil; but the roots of the godly are firmly set.

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

⁶ For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty. ⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment. ⁸ But the godly have devised wise [measures], and this counsel shall stand.

² [who] hate good, and seek evil; [who] tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones: ³ even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

³⁴ And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also].

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.

⁷ who trouble the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves. ⁸ The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends [of the earth] shall be afraid of your signs; you will cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice. ⁹ You have visited the earth, and saturated it; you have abundantly enriched it. The river of God is filled with water; you have prepared their food, for thus is the preparation [of it].

⁵ For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and man of understanding will gain direction;

⁹ Give an opportunity to a wise [man], and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more [instruction].

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

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

¹⁵ The heart of the sensible [man] purchases discretion; and the ears of the wise seek understanding.

²⁵ When a pestilent character is scourged, a simple man is made wiser: and if you reprove a wise man, he will understand discretion.

²⁹ And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot lived.

³ And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

¹⁵ If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

¹⁴ And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king. ¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone. ¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above. ¹⁷ Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out. ¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness. ¹⁹ He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth. ²⁰ But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first. ²¹ These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

²⁸ so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly? ²⁹ Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens. ³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg. ¹⁵ And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows. ¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth. ¹⁸ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. ²³ He shall cause [men] to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

⁵ or God has scattered the bones of the men-pleasers; they were ashamed, for God despised them.

³ When a just man dies he leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy. ⁴ [Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death. ] ⁵ Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.

¹¹ The houses of ungodly men shall be utterly destroyed; but the tabernacles of them that walk uprightly shall stand.

³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

⁹ What [has] he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is your fruit found.

¹¹ I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you⌃ became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did you⌃ return to me, says the Lord.

⁹ Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils. ¹⁰ You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned. ¹¹ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak. ¹² Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.

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.

¹ And the cry of the people and their wives [was] great against their brethren the Jews. ² And some said, We [are] numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live. ³ And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take corn, and eat. ⁴ And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses [are pledged]. ⁵ And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children [are] as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles.

¹³ And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.

⁴ Without iniquity I ran and directed [my course aright]: awake to help me, and behold.

²⁸ For it shall be that when you⌃ call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find [me].

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.

⁶ I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account. 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;

¹⁶ I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Listen not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous [words]. ¹⁷ I sent them not.

⁹ Thus says the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgment, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one with his brother: ¹⁰ and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother. ¹¹ But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear. ¹² And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to listen to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty. ¹³ And it shall come to pass, [that] as he spoke, and they listened not, so they shall cry, and I will not listen, says the Lord Almighty.

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.

¹¹ And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts.

³⁵ And David took of her hand all that she brought to him, and said to her, Go in peace to your house: see, I have listened to your voice, and accepted your petition.

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

²³ The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in [his] bosom do not prosper; and an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness.

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

⁶ Many court the favor of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to [another] man.

¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yes, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. ¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. ¹⁵ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

⁸ They denounced a wicked word against me, [saying], Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again?

¹ (113) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, you⌃ servants [of his], praise, the name of the Lord.

²⁰ Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.

²⁹ The fear of the Lord is a strong hold of the saints: but ruin [comes] to them that work wickedness.

¹² A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.

¹² I know that there is no good in them, except [for a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

⁵ For [these blessings] shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember your ways: behold, you were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants. ¹⁹ None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life.

²⁶ for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable. ²⁷ Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.

¹⁸ But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix your eye upon her: for thus shall you go through strange water; but do you abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, that you may live long, and years of life may be added to you.

²⁰ If you walk with wise men you shall be wise: but he that walks with fools shall be known.

⁶ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labors come into the houses of strangers; ¹¹ And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,

²⁰ A desirable treasure will rest on the mouth of the wise; but foolish men will swallow it up.

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

⁸ A righteous man escapes from a snare, and the ungodly man is delivered up in his place.

³ For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves you: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia your ransom, and [given] Soene for you. ⁴ Since you became precious in my sight, you have become glorious, and I have loved you: and I will give men for you, and princes for your life.

⁴ He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction. ⁵ But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; [and] by his bruises we were healed.

⁸ For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, says the Lord. ⁹ But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.

⁶ They will dwell near and hide [themselves]; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul. ⁷ You will on no account save them; you will bring down the people in wrath.

⁵ The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand. ⁶ The sun shall not burn you by day, neither the moon by night.

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

² Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.

¹⁵ [His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house.

¹⁸ He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, [for] wealth of which he shall not taste: [it is] as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he can’t swallow.

⁵ He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

³ From the rising of the sun to his setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised.

²² The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; it enriches [him], and grief of heart shall not be added to [it].

⁶ In the houses of the righteous is much strength: but the fruits of the ungodly shall perish.

¹⁹ For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God troubles him in the mirth of his heart.

¹¹ Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for you do not enquire in wisdom concerning this.

¹⁹ Men prepare bread for laughter, and wine and oil that the living should rejoice: but to money all things will humbly yield obedience.

⁸ The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after king Sedekias had concluded a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release;

⁹ The ways of an ungodly [man] are an abomination to the Lord; but he loves those that follow after righteousness.

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

¹ Listen to me, you⌃ that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord: look to the solid rock, which you⌃ have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which you⌃ have dug.

³ After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:

⁶ And David and his men, departed to Jerusalem, to the Jebusite that inhabited the land: and it was said to David, You shall not come in hither: for the blind and the lame withstood him, saying, David shall not come in hither. ⁷ And David took first the hold of Sion: this [is] the city of David. ⁸ And David said on that day, Every one that smites the Jebusite, let him attack with the dagger both the lame and the blind, and those that hate the soul of David. Therefore they say, The lame and the blind shall not enter into the house of the Lord. ⁹ And David lived in the hold, and it was called the city of David, and he built the city itself round about from the citadel, and [he built] his own house.

¹⁶ And a wise woman cried from the wall, and said, Hear, hear; say, I pray you⌃, to Joab, Draw near hither, and I will speak to him. ¹⁷ And he drew near to her, and the woman said to him, Are you Joab? and he said, I [am]. And she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid; and Joab said, I do hear. ¹⁸ And she spoke, saying, Of old time they said thus, Surely one was asked in Abel, and Dan, whether the faithful in Israel failed in what they purposed; they will surely ask in Abel, even in like manner, whether they have failed. ¹⁹ I am a peaceful one of the strong ones in Israel; but you seek to destroy a city and a mother city in Israel: why do you seek to ruin the inheritance of the Lord? ²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should ruin or destroy. ²¹ Is not the case thus, that a man of mount Ephraim, Sabee, son of Bochori by name, has even lifted up his hand against king David? Give him only to me, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall. ²² And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and they took off the head of Sabee the son of Bochori; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

⁵ A wise man is better than a strong man; and a man who has prudence than a large estate.

¹⁹ It is well for you to hold fast by this; also by this defile not your hand: for to them that fear God all things shall come forth [well].

¹³ This I also saw [to be] wisdom under the sun, and it is great before me: ¹⁴ [suppose there were] a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it; 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. 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.

¹⁹ By a multitude of words you shall not escape sin; but if you refrain your lips you will be prudent.

¹³ For the sin of [his] lips a sinner falls into snare; but a righteous man escapes from them. He whose looks are gentle shall be pitied, but he that contends in the gates will afflict souls.

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

²⁷ He that forbears to utter a hard word is discreet, and a patient man is wise. ²⁸ Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom: and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.

²¹ Life and death are in the power of the tongue; and they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.

⁵ And when Aman understood that Mardochaeus did not obeisance to him, he was greatly enraged, ⁶ and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

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.

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.

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, and folly before a fall.

¹² Before ruin a man's heart is exalted, and before honor it is humble.

²⁹ Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.

⁸ for oppression makes a wise man mad, and destroys his noble heart. ⁹ The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: your prophecy shall not be thus, [no] not thus.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷ For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom. 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. ¹¹ Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

²⁴ The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule; but the deceitful shall be for a prey.

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.

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

⁴ A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.

¹³ The sluggard makes excuses, and says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.

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.

¹⁶ A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.

¹² Then I said, Now will the Philistines come down to me to Galgala, and I have not sought the face of the Lord: so I forced myself and offered the whole burnt offering. 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.

²¹ But the people took of the spoils the best flocks and herds [out] of that which was destroyed, to sacrifice before the Lord our God in Galgal. ²² And Samuel said, Does the Lord take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? behold, obedience [is] better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams. 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.

⁸ You shall cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice. ⁹ Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit in my inward parts. ¹¹ Cast me not away from your presence; and remove not your holy Spirit from me. ¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation: establish me with your directing Spirit. ¹³ [Then] will I teach transgressors your ways; and ungodly men shall turn to you.

⁹ He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable.

¹¹ Of what [value] to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? says the Lord: I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats: ¹² neither shall you⌃ come [with these] to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? You⌃ shall no more tread my court. ¹³ Though you⌃ bring fine flour, [it is] vain; incense is an abomination to me; I can’t bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day; ¹⁴ [your] fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: you⌃ have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins. ¹⁵ When you⌃ stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though you⌃ make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

³ But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as [one that offers] swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.

²⁰ Therefore do you⌃ bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.

¹¹ Is my house, whereon my name is called, a den of robbers in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord. ¹² For go you⌃ to my place with is in Selo, where I caused my name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

²¹ I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell [your] meat-offerings in your general assemblies. ²² Therefore if you⌃ should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I have respect to your grand peace-offerings.

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

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.

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

¹⁹ True lips establish testimony; but a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.

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

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

¹⁸ [As] a club, and a dagger, and a pointed arrow, so also is a man who bears false witness against his friend.

⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.

⁵ Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.

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

¹ A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

² Lift up your eyes [to look] straight forward, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness. ³ And you did retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself: you had a whore's face, you did become shameless toward all.

³ O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

¹⁶ So Jeremias came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days. ¹⁷ Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: you shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

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 says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.

⁷ Thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways.

¹⁵ And Aggaeus answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whoever shall approach them, shall be defiled [because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and you⌃ have hated him that reproved in the gates].

¹⁸ I struck you with barrenness, and with blasting, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet you⌃ returned not to me, says the Lord. ¹⁹ Set your hearts now [to think] from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;

²¹ [There are] many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord abides for ever.

⁵ And [as for] the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, [saying], 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.

⁹ Know, you⌃ Gentiles, and be conquered; listen you⌃, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after you⌃ strengthened yourselves; for even if you⌃ should again strengthen yourselves, you⌃ shall again be conquered. ¹⁰ And whatever counsel you⌃ shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nothing; and whatever word you⌃ shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

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: ¹¹ calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned: I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

²³ Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

¹³ And the men tried hard to return to the land, and were not able: for the sea rose and grew more and more tempestuous against them.

³ But you, O Lord, are my helper: my glory, and the one that lifts up my head.

⁸ Deliverance is the Lord's, and your blessing is upon your people.

⁷ For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved.

¹⁷ and delivered them out of all their afflictions. ¹⁸ The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

²⁰ My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.

¹⁰ Let all your works, O Lord, give thanks to you; and let your saints bless you.

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.

¹ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, [which are] a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.

²³ Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.