Proverbs 6 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ [My] son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your hand to an enemy. ² For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth. ³ [My] son, do what I command you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you are come into the power of evil [men]: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you are become surety. ⁴ Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids; ⁵ that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare. 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. ¹² A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good. ¹³ And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers. ¹⁴ [His] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city. ¹⁵ Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin. ¹⁶ For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul. ¹⁷ The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just; ¹⁸ and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —[are hateful to God]. ¹⁹ An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren. ²⁰ [My] son, keep the laws of your father, and reject not the ordinances of your mother: ²¹ but bind them upon your soul continually, and hang them as a chain about your neck. ²² Whenever you walk, lead this along and let it be with you; that it may talk with you when you wake. ²³ For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction: ²⁴ to keep you continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue. ²⁵ Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be you caught by your eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids. ²⁶ For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men. ²⁷ Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments? ²⁸ or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet? ²⁹ So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her. ³⁰ It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul: ³¹ but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods. ³² But the adulterer through lack of sense procures destruction to his soul. ³³ He endures both pain and disgrace, and his reproach shall never be wiped off. ³⁴ For the soul of her husband is full of jealousy: he will not spare in the day of vengeance. ³⁵ He will not forego [his] enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.

⁹ And I engage for him; at my hand do you require him; if I bring him not to you, and place him before you, I shall be guilty toward you for ever.

³² For your servant has received the boy [in charge] from his father, saying, If I bring him not to you, and place him before you, I shall be guilty towards my father for ever. ³³ Now then I will remain a servant with you instead of the lad, a domestic of my lord; but let the lad go up with his brethren.

³ Who is this? let him join hands with me.

¹⁵ A bad man does harm wherever he meets a just man: and he hates the sound of safety.

¹⁸ A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, [as he] also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.

²⁶ Become not surety from respect of a man's person.

¹³ Take away the man's garment, (for a scorner has passed by) whoever lays waste another's goods.

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.

⁷ A fool's mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

³ And Moses and Aaron went in before Pharao, and they said to him, These things says the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long do you refuse to reverence me? Send my people away, that they may serve me.

¹⁴ And David said to Gad, On every side I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions [are] very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.

⁵ And Samaias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of Juda that were gathered to Jerusalem for fear of Susakim, and said to them, Thus said the Lord, You⌃ have left me, and I will leave you in the hand of Susakim.

¹² And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God: he was not ashamed before the prophet Jeremias, nor because of the word of the Lord;

⁸ I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix mine eyes upon you.

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.

¹⁰ Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither you go.

¹ (12) For the end, A Psalm of David, upon the eighth. Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

³ on a lute of ten strings, with a song on the harp.

¹⁷ for nets are not without cause spread for birds.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to you; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to you. ⁸ Tell the earth, if it may speak to you: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to you.

⁹ How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep?

²⁶ As a sour grape is hurtful to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so iniquity hurts those that practise it.

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

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

⁹ A man who helps not himself by his labor is brother of him that ruins himself.

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

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.

²⁵ Desires kill the sluggard; for his hands do not choose to do anything.

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. 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.

²⁵ the ants which are weak, and [yet] prepare [their] food in summer;

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

³⁹ And will you hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?

²⁶ And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south? ²⁷ And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest, ²⁸ on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]? ²⁹ Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far. ³⁰ And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.

⁴ Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate? ⁵ Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth. ⁶ His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone. ⁷ One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air can’t come between them. ⁸ They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and can’t be separated. ⁹ At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star. ¹⁰ Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad. ¹¹ Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals. ¹² His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ¹³ And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs. ¹⁴ The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved. ¹⁵ His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil. ¹⁶ And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth. ¹⁷ If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate. ¹⁸ For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood. ¹⁹ The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass. ²⁰ Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand. ²¹ His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay. ²² He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment, ²³ and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range. ²⁴ There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels. ²⁵ He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

²⁷ The locusts have no king, and [yet] march orderly at one command.

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

⁸ To-day, if you⌃ will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness:

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.

¹⁴ Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved: how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things. ³⁴ And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.

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.

³⁴ But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.

²⁸ [And Eliab his elder brother heard as he spoke to the men, and Eliab was very angry with David and said, Why have you thus come down, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the naughtiness of your heart, for you are come down to see the battle. ]

³ For behold the sinners have bent their [bow], they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot For privily at the upright in heart.

⁷ He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast [shall be] the portion of their cup.

³ Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and you shall be fed with the wealth of it.

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. ⁴ Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

⁷ Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;

⁸ They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. ⁹ We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.

¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

²⁴ Remove from you a froward mouth, and put far away from you unjust lips.

¹⁴ [His] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

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.

⁶ The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.

²⁷ But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.

⁴ A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man attends not to false lips.

² The one basket was [full] of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was [full] of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for their badness.

⁸ And as the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, for their badness; thus says the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt. ⁹ And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an [object of] hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out. ¹⁰ And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I gave them.

¹² What has your heart dared? or what have your eyes [aimed at],

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

¹⁰ He that winks with his eyes deceitfully, procures griefs for men; but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.

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

¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

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

¹⁸ and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —[are hateful to God]. ¹⁹ An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

²⁸ A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends. ²⁹ A transgressor tries [to ensnare] friends, and leads them in ways [that are] not good. ³⁰ And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evil: he is a furnace of wickedness.

⁸ To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.

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.

¹⁷ As he that lays hold of a dog's tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another's cause. ¹⁸ As those who need correction put forth [fair] words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown; ¹⁹ so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest. ²⁰ With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases. ²¹ A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife. ²² The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they strike [even] to the inmost parts of the bowels.

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.

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

² And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city:

⁷ for they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

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

¹⁶ Nevertheless they sneered at his messengers, and set at nothing his words, and mocked his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against his people, till there was no remedy.

¹⁸ Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. ¹⁹ Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor. ²⁰ Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

²⁷ yes when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and [your] overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

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

¹³ therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand. ¹⁴ And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, [as] small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.

¹¹ and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which can’t be mended again.

¹⁰ There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury, ¹¹ a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead. ¹² For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before your face.

¹⁸ You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord your God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord your God.

⁴ And [if] she should go away and be married to another man;

¹⁶ For every one that does this [is] an abomination to the Lord your God, even every one that does injustice.

⁵ Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set [them] in safety; I will speak [to them] thereof openly.

³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous.

¹ False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable to him.

²⁰ Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.

⁸ The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him. ⁹ The ways of an ungodly [man] are an abomination to the Lord; but he loves those that follow after righteousness.

¹⁵ He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.

¹⁰ A large and small weight, and various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and [so is] he that makes them.

²³ A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.

¹⁸ Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:

²¹ By three thing the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear:

²⁴ And [there are] four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise:

²⁹ And there are three things which go well, and a fourth which passes along finely.

³ And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Galaadites.

⁶ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut [them] up into Idumea.

⁹ Thus says the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Idumea, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.

¹¹ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

¹ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the king of Idumea to lime.

⁴ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain [idols] which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

⁶ Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

¹⁰ So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.

²⁵ Cursed is he whoever shall have taken a bribe to kill an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it.

⁴ Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon [it].

⁶ You will destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

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

⁶ they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. ⁷ They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name. ⁸ They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

² My help [shall come] from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. ³ Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber.

¹ (132) A Song of Degrees. Lord, remember David, and all his meekness:

¹¹ If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

²² Lying lips are a abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.

⁵ A faithful witness does not lie; but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods.

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

⁴ A high-minded man is stout-hearted in [his] pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates the truth; and an unguarded mouth causes tumults.

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

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.

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.

⁹ Therefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

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:

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness. ⁴ None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity. ⁵ They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk. ⁶ Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity. ⁷ And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹ Hear the word of the Lord, you⌃ children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. ² Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

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,

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

⁸ but deliberate in council. Death befalls uninstructed [men].

⁷ And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹⁷ and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbor; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁶ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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. ²⁰ And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.

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. ¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright. ¹² And it came to pass when he returned him this answer, he and all the kings with him were drinking in tents: and he said to his servants, Form a trench. And they made a trench against the city. 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. ¹⁴ And Achaab said, Whereby? And he said, Thus says the Lord, by the young men of the heads of the districts. And Achaab said, Who shall begin the battle? and he said, You. ¹⁵ And Achaab numbered the young men the heads of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty: and afterwards he numbered the people, [even] every man fit for war, seven thousand.

¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners move me.

¹⁷ A righteous man declares the open truth; but an unjust witness is deceitful.

²⁸ A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.

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.

¹⁰ Cast out a pestilent person from the council, and strife shall go out with him; for when he sits in the council he dishonors all.

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

²⁰ With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases.

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;

¹⁶ Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it.

⁸ Hear, [my] son, the instruction of your father, and reject not the rules of your mother. ⁹ For you shall receive for your head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round your neck.

¹ [My] son, keep my words, and hide with you my commandments. [My] son, honor the Lord, and you shall be strong; and fear none but him: ² keep my commandments, and you shall live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [your] eyes. ³ And bind them on your fingers, and write [them] on the table of your heart. ⁴ Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;

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

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

¹⁶ And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and immovable before your eyes, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

⁸ And you shall fasten them for a sign upon your hand, and it shall be immoveable before your eyes.

³ Let not mercy and truth forsake you; but bind them about your neck:

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.

⁴ The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

³ For they inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them.

¹¹ good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;

²³ that you may go confidently in peace in all your ways, and that your foot may not stumble. ²⁴ For if you rest, you shall be undismayed; and if you sleep, you shall slumber sweetly.

¹⁸ And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, and cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless his own reproach shall return to him. ¹⁹ Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of his own land: but he shall become weak, and fall, and not be found. ²⁰ And there shall arise out of his root one that shall cause a plant of the kingdom to pass over his place, earning kingly glory: and yet in those days shall he be broken, yet not openly, nor in war. ²¹ [One] shall stand on his place, [who] has been set a nothing, and they have not put upon him the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful ways.

¹⁷ You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbor, so you shall not bear sin on his account.

⁸ They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright.

⁵ I cried to you, O Lord, and said, You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

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

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

¹³ Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, —but keep it for yourself for your life.

¹² and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!

²⁴ The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.

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

²⁰ For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

⁸ And you shall say to this people, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you,

³ for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:

⁵ that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.

²⁶ I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account [of things], and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

² And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and enquired about the woman: and [one] said, [Is] not this Bersabee the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Urias the Chettite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

³⁰ And Ju came to Jezrael; and Jezabel heard [of it], and coloured her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked through the window.

⁹ My sister, [my] spouse, you have ravished my heart; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

¹⁴ that she called those that were in the house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew servant to mock us—he came in to me, saying, Lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

³⁶ And it shall come to pass that he that survives in your house, shall come to do obeisance before him for a little piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of your priest's offices to eat bread.

¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labors come into the houses of strangers;

²³ and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.

³ When a man loves wisdom, his father rejoices: but he that keeps harlots will waste wealth.

⁸ Lawless men burn down a city: but wise men turn away wrath.

⁸ And therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord.

¹⁸ And you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Woe to the [women] that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.

⁹ If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors; ¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low. ¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [in the case] of defiling [another] man's wife. ¹² For it is a fire burning on every side, and whoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.

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. ⁶ Therefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire. ⁷ They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.

¹⁸ And Pharao having called Abram, said, What is this you have done to me, that you did not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Therefore did you say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, your wife is before you, take her and go quickly away.

⁴ But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said, Lord, will you destroy an ignorantly [sinning] and just nation? ⁵ Said he not to me, She is my sister, and said she not to me, He is my brother? with a pure heart and in the righteousness of my hands have I done this. ⁶ And God said to him in sleep, Yes, I knew that you did this with a pure heart, and I spared you, so that you should not sin against me, therefore I suffered you not to touch her. ⁷ But now return the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and shall pray for you, and you shall live; but if you restore her not, know that you shall die and all your.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said to him, Why have you done this to us? one of my kindred within a little had lain with your wife, and you would have brought [a sin of] ignorance upon us. ¹¹ And Abimelech charged all his people, saying Every man that touches this man and his wife shall be liable to death.

¹⁰ Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.

³ And David sent and enquired about the woman: and [one] said, [Is] not this Bersabee the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Urias the Chettite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.

⁹ Why have you set at nothing the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? you have slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall not depart from your house for ever, because you has set me at nothing, and you have taken the wife of Urias the Chettite, to be your wife.

²¹ And Achitophel said to Abessalom, Go in to your father's concubines, whom he left to keep his house; and all Israel shall hear that you have dishonored your father; and the hands of all that are with you shall be strengthened.

⁵ Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless. The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices. He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace. All of the works of the Lord [are done] with righteousness; and the ungodly [man] is kept for the evil day.

⁸ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

¹¹ They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

⁵ And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a sift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, says the Lord Almighty.

³⁹ And will you hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?

¹ And if one steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep. ² And if the thief be found in the breach [made by himself] and be struck and die, there shall not be blood shed for him. ³ But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen. ⁴ And if the thing stolen be left and be in his hand alive, whether ox or sheep, he shall restore them two-fold.

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

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.

⁹ and in this house there is nothing above me, nor has anything been kept back from me, but you, because you are his wife—how then shall I do this wicked thing, and sin against God? ¹⁰ And when she talked with Joseph day by day, and he listened not to her to sleep with her, so as to be with her,

³⁹ And Pharao said to Joseph, Since God has showed you all these things, there is not a wiser or more prudent man than you.

¹⁴ You shall not steal.

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.

²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins. ²³ Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.

⁷ passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

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: ²³ and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.

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

⁴ Whoso is foolish, let him turn aside to me: and to them that lack understanding she says,

¹⁶ [saying], Whoso is most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those that lack prudence, saying, ¹⁷ Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft. 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.

²⁵ [That which is] far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out? ²⁶ I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account [of things], and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

⁸ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife.

²¹ Hear you⌃ now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:

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?

¹¹ The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink. ¹² They asked counsel by [means of] signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

⁹ O Israel, who will aid [you] in your destruction?

⁴ You were insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled the couch, whereupon you went up.

¹⁹ And Dalida made Sampson sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and she began to humble him, and his strength departed from him. ²⁰ And Dalida said, The Philistines [are] upon you, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house.

⁵ Forasmuch as David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he turned not from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? though there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.

¹ (39) For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence. ² I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed. ³ My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue, ⁴ O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack. ⁵ Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before you: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. Pause. ⁶ Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. ⁷ And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with you. Pause. ⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.

¹ (52) For the end, [a Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in [your] mischief? All the day

⁸ But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

⁹ lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless: 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,

¹⁴ and there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she should not be defiled;

¹¹ Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

²⁹ And he took his sword, and laid hold of his concubine, and divided her into twelve parts, and sent them to every coast of Israel. ³⁰ And it was so, that every one who saw it said, [Such a day] as this has not happened nor has been seen from the day of the going up of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt until this day: take you⌃ counsel concerning it, and speak.

⁴ Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.

⁶ Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, [even] the flames thereof.

¹ Now Naiman, the captain of the host of Syria, was a great man before his master, and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria, and the man was mighty in strength, [but] a leper.

³ For I also was a son obedient to [my] father, and loved in the sight of [my] mother:

¹³ Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

²⁵ before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me.

⁹ And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.

⁹ And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you⌃ have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.