Proverbs Cross References - Leeser

¹ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel: ² To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the sayings of understanding; ³ To accept the instruction of intelligence, righteousness, and justice, and equity; ⁴ To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion. ⁵ The wise will hear, and will increase his information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels: ⁶ To understand a proverb, and a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles. ⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools alone despise. ⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother; ⁹ For a wreath of grace are they unto thy head, and chains for thy throat. ¹⁰ My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not. ¹¹ If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent; ¹² We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit; ¹³ We shall find all kinds of precious wealth, we will fill our houses with booty; ¹⁴ Thy lot must thou cast in our midst; one purse shall be for us all: ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou on the way with them; withhold thy foot from their path; ¹⁶ For their feet run after evil, and they make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ For uselessly is the net spread out before the eyes of every winged bird: ¹⁸ While they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch in concealment for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the paths of every one that is greedy after unlawful gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it. ²⁰ Wisdom crieth loudly without; in the public places she uttereth her voice; ²¹ At the corner of noisy streets she calleth, at the entrances of gates; in the city she sayeth her speeches: ²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. ²⁴ Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive; ²⁵ And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition: ²⁶ Therefore I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride you when your terror cometh; ²⁷ When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction. ²⁸ Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me; ²⁹ For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose; ³⁰ That they would not attend to my counsel: that they rejected all my admonition. ³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied. ³² For the defection of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will cause them to be lost. ³³ But he that hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from the dread of evil.

²⁴ And David comforted Bath-sheba’ his wife, and he went in unto her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and called his name Solomon; and the Lord loved him. ²⁵ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name, Yedideyah in behalf of the Lord.

¹² Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

^{31 (5:11)} And he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrachite, and Heman, and Kalkol, and Darda’, the sons of Machol: and his name was spread among all the nations round about. ^{32 (5:12)} And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

⁹ Behold, a son will be born to thee, he it is who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for Solomon [The Peaceful] shall be his name, and peace and quietness will I bestow on Israel in his days.

⁵ And of all my sons,—for the Lord hath given me many sons,—hath he made choice of Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

²⁸ And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son became king in his stead.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth his father to rejoice; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

¹ Also these are the proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah the king of Judah have collected.

¹ The words of Koheleth, the son of David, the king in Jerusalem.

⁹ And in addition to this that Koheleth was wise, he continually also taught the people knowledge, and he probed, and searched out, and composed many proverbs.

⁵ See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, just as the Lord my God commanded me; that ye may do so in the midst of the land whither ye go to take possession of it. ⁶ Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the nations, that shall hear all these statutes, and they will say, Nothing but a wise and understanding people is this great nation.

⁹ Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad; for who would otherwise be able to judge this thy great people? ¹⁰ And the speech was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ¹¹ And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; and hast not asked for thyself riches, nor hast asked the life of thy enemies; but hast asked for thyself discernment to understand how to give judgment: ¹² Behold, I have done according to thy word; lo, I have given thee a wise and a discerning heart; so that like unto thee there was none before thee, nor after thee shall any one arise like unto thee.

⁵ Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding: forget not, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she will watch over thee: love her, and she will keep thee. ⁷ The beginning of wisdom is, Acquire wisdom: and with all thy acquisition acquire understanding.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ Learn, O ye simple, to understand prudence: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

¹⁶ How much better is it to obtain wisdom than gold! and to obtain understanding is preferable to silver!

¹⁶ Wherefore is the purchase-money in the hand of a fool to acquire wisdom, seeing he hath no sense?

²⁸ And when all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to exercise justice.

²² Do but accept instruction from his mouth, and lay up his saying in thy heart.

¹ My son, if thou wouldst but accept my words, and treasure up my commandments with thee; ² To let thy ear listen unto wisdom: if thou wouldst incline thy heart to understanding. ³ For if thou wilt call after intelligence; if after understanding thou wilt lift up thy voice; ⁴ If thou wilt seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: ⁵ Then wilt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of God wilt thou find. ⁶ For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He treasureth up sound wisdom for the righteous, as a shield to those that walk in integrity: ⁸ That men may keep the paths of justice; and the way of his pious servants doth he guard. ⁹ Then wilt thou understand righteousness, and justice, and equity: yea, every track of goodness.

¹⁰ Accept my correction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is better than pearls; and all the things that men wish for are not equal to her.

^{7 (19:8)} The law of the Lord is perfect, quieting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

^{11 (34:12)} Come, ye children, hearken unto me: the fear of the Lord will I teach you.

⁹ BETH. Wherewithal shall a youth keep his way pure? by guarding it according to thy word.

¹³⁰ The opening of thy words giveth light, it giveth understanding unto the simple.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

¹⁰ For wisdom will enter thy heart, and knowledge will be pleasant unto thy soul; ¹¹ Discretion will watch over thee, understanding will keep thee;

²¹ My son, let them not be removed from thy eyes; keep before thee sound wisdom and discretion:

⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a lad void of sense; ⁸ He was passing through the market-place near her corner; and he stepped along on the way to her house, ⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the depth of the night and when it was dark: ¹⁰ And, behold, a woman came to meet him with the attire of a harlot, and obdurate of heart. ¹¹ (She is noisy and ungovernable; in her house her feet never rest; ¹² At one time she is in the street, at another in the open places, and near every corner doth she lurk,) ¹³ And she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him, ¹⁴ “I had bound myself to bring peace-offerings; this day have I paid my vows: ¹⁵ Therefore am I come forth to meet thee, to seek thy presence diligently, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ With tapestry coverings have I decked my bed, with embroidered coverlids of the fine linen of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have sprinkled my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us indulge in love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with dalliances. ¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, he is gone on a journey a great way off: ²⁰ The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.” ²¹ She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided him. ²² He followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, the fool: ²³ Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life. ²⁴ And now, O children, hearken unto me, and listen to the sayings of my mouth.

¹² I wisdom dwell with prudence, and the knowledge of discreet thoughts do I discover.

¹⁷ I indeed love those that love me: and those that seek me earnestly shall find me.

³² And now, O children of men, hearken unto me! for happy those that observe my ways.

⁴ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that is void of sense, she saith to him, ⁵ “Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. ⁶ Forsake simplicity, and live; and go onward on the way of understanding.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youthful vigor, and walk firmly in the ways of thy heart, and in the direction which thy eyes see: but know thou, that concerning all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

⁸ And there shall be a highway and a way, and The holy way, shall it be called; no unclean one shall pass over it; but it shall be only theirs; the wayfaring man, and those unacquainted therewith, shall not go astray.

³² And David said to Abigayil, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me; ³³ And blessed be thy intelligence, and blessed be thou, who hast prevented me this day from coming unto blood-guiltiness, and from helping myself with my own hand.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, as he was speaking unto him, that he said unto him, Have we ever appointed thee as a counsellor to the king? forbear this: why shouldst thou be smitten? Then did the prophet forbear; and he said, I know that God hath resolved to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

¹⁰ Therefore ye men of sense hearken unto me: far is it from God to practise wickedness; and from the Almighty to do wrong!

¹⁶ If then thou wishest to understand, hear this: give ear to the sound of my words.

³⁴ Men of sense will say unto me, and every wise man who heareth me,

⁹⁸ Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me. ⁹⁹ Above all my teachers have I obtained intelligence; for thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ More than the elders do I possess understanding; because thy precepts do I keep.

⁹ Give to the wise instruction, and he will become yet wiser: impart knowledge to the righteous, and he will increase his information.

¹ Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

⁸ Mouth to mouth do I speak with him, even evidently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord doth he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

^{4 (49:5)} I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open with the harp my riddle.

² I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient times;

¹¹ The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails fastened are the words of the men of the assemblies, which are given by one shepherd.

²⁸ And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; a good understanding have all that fulfill his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

²⁹ For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose; ³⁰ That they would not attend to my counsel: that they rejected all my admonition.

¹² And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof; ¹³ While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;

¹⁰ The commencement of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; and the knowledge of the Most Holy One is understanding.

⁵ A fool contemneth the correction of his father; but he that observeth admonition will become prudent.

³³ The fear of the Lord is the correction for wisdom; and before honor there must come humility.

² A fool hath no delight in understanding, but in laying open what is in his heart.

¹³ The end of the matter is, let us hear the whole: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

³ Ye shall fear, every man, his mother and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and they chastise him, and he will not hearken unto them: ¹⁹ Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; ²⁰ And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and be afraid.

²⁵ If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him; but if against the Lord a man should sin, who shall pray for him? Nevertheless would they not hearken unto the voice of their father, because the Lord desired to slay them.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not.

¹⁵ My son, walk not thou on the way with them; withhold thy foot from their path;

¹ My son, if thou wouldst but accept my words, and treasure up my commandments with thee;

¹ My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart keep my commandments;

¹ Hear, ye children, the correction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For good information do I give you: my teaching must ye not forsake. ³ For I was a son unto my father, a tender and an only child before my mother. ⁴ And he instructed me, and said unto me, Let thy heart grasp firmly my words: observe my commandments and live.

¹ My son, attend unto my wisdom; to my understanding incline thou thy ear: ² That thou mayest observe discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

²⁰ Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother:

¹ My son, observe my sayings, and my commandments must thou treasure up with thee.

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, this shall the ravens of the valley pick out; and the young eagles shall eat it.

¹ The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy with which his mother instructed him.

⁴² And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a golden chain about his neck;

²² And they will be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy throat.

⁹ She will give to thy head a wreath of grace: a crown of ornament will she deliver to thee.

²⁰ Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother: ²¹ Bind them upon thy heart continually, tie them about thy throat.

¹⁰ Comely are thy cheeks between strings of pearls, thy neck with rows of jewels.

⁹ Thou hast ravished my heart, O my sister, my bride; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

¹⁹ The drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and I placed bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain around thy neck.

⁷ the king called with might to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king commenced, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whatsoever man will read this writing, and tell me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall rule as the third in the kingdom.

¹⁶ But I have truly heard concerning thee, that thou art able to give interpretations, and untie knotty doubts: now if thou art able to read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, thou shalt be clothed with purple, with a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt rule as the third in the kingdom.

²⁹ Then gave Belshazzar the order, and they clothed Daniel with purple, with a chain of gold about his neck, and they made a proclamation concerning him, that he should rule as the third in the kingdom.

⁷ And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. ⁸ But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, Thy master troubleth himself not about what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath into my hand; ⁹ There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great evil, and sin against God? ¹⁰ And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, and he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her; ¹¹ That it came to pass one particular day, that he went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. ¹² And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me; and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and ran out into the street. ¹³ And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

^{8 (13:9)} Then shalt thou not consent unto him, nor shalt thou hearken unto him; nor shall thy eye look with pity on him, nor shalt thou spare, nor shalt thou conceal it for him;

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she worried him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul became impatient to die; ¹⁷ And he told her all his heart, and said unto her, A razor hath not passed over my head; for a Nazarite of God have I been from my mother’s womb; if I were shaved, my strength would depart from me, and I should become weak, and be like all other men. ¹⁸ And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once; for he hath told me all his heart. Then came the lords of the Philistines up unto her, and brought the money in their hand. ¹⁹ And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to subdue him, and his strength departed from him. ²⁰ And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and thought, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself free. But he knew not that the Lord had departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazzah, and bound him with fetters of copper; and he had to grind in the prison-house.

¹ BOOK FIRST: Happy is the man who walketh not in the council of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

¹⁸ When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.

²¹ She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided him. ²² He followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, the fool: ²³ Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life.

²⁰ He that walketh with wise men will become wise; but he that associateth with fools will be destroyed.

²⁹ The man of violence misleadeth his neighbor, and maketh him go on a way which is not good.

¹⁹ He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that enticeth with his lips.

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes search for the unfortunate. ⁹ He lieth in wait in a secret place like a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to snatch up the poor: he snatcheth up the poor, as they draweth him into his net. ¹⁰ He croucheth, he bendeth himself, and the unfortunate fall through his might.

¹² Every man is just like a lion that is greedy to tear his prey, and like a young lion lurking in a covert.

⁷ For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit, without cause have they dug pit-falls against my life.

^{6 (56:7)} They come together in troops, they hide themselves, they are those that watch my heels, as though they hoped to take my soul.

^{5 (64:6)} They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they tell secretly of laying snares: they say, Who will see them? ^{6 (64:7)} They search out iniquities; “We are ready with the carefully searched out device:” and the inward thought and heart of each is deeply hidden.

¹⁶ For their feet run after evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

¹⁸ While they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch in concealment for their own lives.

⁶ The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

¹⁴ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

²⁶ For there are found among my people wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that layeth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

¹⁹ But I was like a sheep or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may not be remembered any more.”

¹⁸ And they said, Come, and let us contrive devices against Jeremiah; for the law will not be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words. ¹⁹ Listen to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of those that contend with me. ²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed instead of good, that they have dug a pit for my life? Remember my standing before thee to speak good concerning them, to cause thy wrath to turn away from them.

² The pious hath disappeared out of the land; and the upright among men there is none; all of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

³⁰ But if the Lord do create a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertaineth unto them, and they go down alive into the pit: then shall ye understand that these men have provoked the Lord. ³¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground that was under them was cloven asunder: ³² And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korach, and all their goods. ³³ And they went down, they, and all they that appertained to them, alive into the pit; and the earth closed over them, and they disappeared from the midst of the congregation.

¹⁰ When the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korach, while that company died, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign.

^{9 (5:10)} For there is not in their mouth any sincerity; their inward part is full of deception; an open sepulchre is their throat: they flatter with their tongue.

¹ Of David. Unto thee, O Lord, will I call; O my rock, turn not unheeding from me: lest thou turn away silent from me, and I become like those that go down into the pit.

²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, Aha, this is the wish of our soul: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

¹ To the chief musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, by David, a Michtham, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. ^(56:2) Be gracious unto me, O God; for man longeth to swallow me up; all the time he oppresseth me fighting. ^{2 (56:3)} Those that regard me with envy long to swallow me up all the time; for many are they that fight against me, O thou Most High.

^{3 (57:4)} He will send from heaven, and save me, though he that longeth to swallow me up utter reproach. Selah. God will send forth his kindness and his truth.

³ Then would they have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

⁷ Hasten, answer me, O Lord, my spirit falleth: hide not thy face from me, that I may not become like those that go down into the pit.

³⁴ “Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon devoured me, he crushed me, he set me down as an empty vessel, he swallowed me up like a huge serpent, he filled his belly with my delicacies: he drove me out.

⁵ The Lord became like an enemy; he destroyed Israel, he destroyed all her palaces, he ruined her strong-holds, and he increased in the midst of the daughter of Judah groaning and wailing.

¹⁶ All thy enemies open wide their mouth against thee; they hiss and gnash their teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up: ah, truly this is the day that we hoped for; we have found, we have seen it.

² But they are those who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and who crush their bones, and chop them in pieces, as that to be put in a pot, and as flesh within a caldron.

² The wicked remove landmarks: they rob flocks, and feed them. ³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take in pledge the widow’s ox.

¹⁹ So are the paths of every one that is greedy after unlawful gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.

¹³ For he hath said, “By the strength of my hand have I done it, and by my wisdom, for I have intelligence; and I have removed the boundaries of nations, and their laid-up treasures have I plundered, and brought down low those that were powerfully seated. ¹⁴ And my hand hath reached, as a bird’s nest, the wealth of the people: and as one gathereth up eggs that are forsaken, have I myself gathered up all the earth: and there was not one that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.”

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then was it well: is not this the proper knowledge of me? saith the Lord. ¹⁷ But thy eyes and thy heart are directed on nothing but upon thy own gain, and upon innocent blood to shed it, and upon oppression, and upon extortion, to practise them.

^{12 (2:13)} The lion tore in pieces prey enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled with prey his holes, and his dens with what he had torn.

⁹ Greater shall be the glory of this latter house than that of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood, and with dissemblers will I not enter in communion. ⁵ I have hated the assemblage of evil-doers; and with the wicked will I not sit.

¹⁰¹ From every evil path have I withholden my feet, in order that I might observe thy word.

¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and step not on the way of the bad. ¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not through by it, turn off from it, and pass away.

²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

⁸ Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door of her house;

⁶ Forsake simplicity, and live; and go onward on the way of understanding.

¹⁰ Thus hath said the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander about, their feet have they not restrained: therefore the Lord doth not receive them in favor; now will he remember their iniquity, and will punish their sins.

¹⁶ For they sleep not, except they have done evil, and their sleep is robbed away, unless they cause some to stumble.

¹⁸ A heart that contriveth plans of injustice, feet that hasten to run after evil,

⁷ Their feet run to what is evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; wasting and destruction are on their highways.

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of the heavens?

²³ Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the swallow, atad the crane observe the time of their coming home; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king was appeased.

^{14 (7:15)} Behold, he travaileth with wrong doing; but he hath conceived mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood. ^{15 (7:16)} He hath hollowed out a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he hath wrought. ^{16 (7:17)} His mischief will return upon his own head, and upon his own skull will his violence come down.

^{16 (9:17)} The Lord is made known: he executed justice: through the doing of his own hands is the wicked ensnared. Higgayon, Selah.

^{23 (55:24)} But thou, O God, thou wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: let not the men of blood and deceit live out half their days; but I will indeed trust in thee.

²² His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly. ²³ He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.

¹⁷ “Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant.” ¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the departed are there; that in the depths of the nether world are her guests.

¹⁷ A man oppressed by the load of having shed human blood will flee even to the pit: let no man hold him.

¹¹ And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him: why then didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and it would have been obligatory on me to give thee ten shekels of silver and a girdle. ¹² And the man said unto Joab, And though I should weigh on my hands a thousand shekels of silver, I would not stretch forth my hand against the king’s son; for before our ears did the king charge thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Take heed, whoever it be, of the young man, of Abshalom. ¹³ Or should I even have acted with falsehood against my own life, since there is no matter which can be hidden from the king; thou wouldst surely have placed thyself aloof.

²⁰ But Gechazi, the servant of Elisha’ the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Na’aman, this Syrian, in not receiving from his hand what he had brought; but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some little thing from him. ²¹ So Gechazi hurried after Na’aman; and when Na’aman saw him running after him, he lighted doom from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, all is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the mountain of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: do give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. ²³ And Na’aman said, Give thy assent, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and he gave them unto his two young men, and they carried them before him. ²⁴ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he dismissed the men, and they departed. ²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha’ said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gechazi? And he said, Thy servant went not hither or thither. ²⁶ And he said unto him, My mind was not gone, when the man turned round from his chariot to meet thee. Is it a time to take money, and to take garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants? ²⁷ May then the leprosy of Na’aman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

³⁹ If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve:

²⁷ He that is greedy after gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts will live.

³ Do not long for his savory meats; they are deceitful food. ⁴ Fatigue thyself not to become rich; because thou hast understanding, forbear.

^{13 (5:12)} There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches reserved for their owner to his own hurt.

¹⁷ But thy eyes and thy heart are directed on nothing but upon thy own gain, and upon innocent blood to shed it, and upon oppression, and upon extortion, to practise them. ¹⁸ Therefore thus hath said the Lord concerning Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, They shall not lament for him, with, “Woe, my brother!” and, “Woe, sister!” they shall not lament for him, with “Woe, lord!” and, “Woe, to his glory!” ¹⁹ With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, dragged about and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

¹ Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage. ³ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will devise against this family an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; nor shall ye go erect; for it is an evil time.

¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood-guiltiness, and Jerusalem with wrong. ¹¹ Her heads judge for bribes, and her priests teach for reward, and her prophets divine for money: and yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? evil cannot come over us. ¹² Therefore for your sake shall Zion be ploughed up as a field, and Jerusalem shall become ruinous heaps, and the mount of the house, forest-covered high-places.

⁹ Woe to him that obtaineth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of the wicked!

¹ Behold, wisdom calleth, and understanding sendeth forth her voice, ² On the top of high places, by the wayside, at the house where there are many paths doth she place herself. ³ Alongside of gates, at the opening of the city, at the entrance of the town-doors doth she call loudly, ⁴ Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice goeth forth to the sons of men, ⁵ Learn, O ye simple, to understand prudence: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

³ She hath sent forth her maidens: she inviteth her guests upon the top of the highest places of the town.

³ And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Eternal, the God of the Hebrews, How long yet wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

²⁸ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

²⁷ How long shall indulgence be given to this evil congregation, that murmur against me? the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me, have I heard.

⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh scorning like water,

⁸ Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!

⁴ To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools alone despise.

²⁹ For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;

³⁴ If it concern the scornful he will himself render them a scorn; but unto the lowly doth he give grace.

¹² And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;

⁹ How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie down? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a lad void of sense;

¹⁶ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; and as for him that is void of sense, she saith to him,

⁶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none; but knowledge is easy to the man of understanding.

¹² A scorner loveth not that one should admonish him: unto the wise doth he not go.

²⁹ Punishments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

¹¹ When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is taught intelligence, he receiveth knowledge.

¹ A hymn of praise by David. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

²⁵ And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:

³⁰ That they would not attend to my counsel: that they rejected all my admonition.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and the way of life are the admonitions of correction:

¹⁷ On the way unto life is he that observeth correction; but he that forsaketh reproof is in error.

¹ A man that, having received many admonitions, still hardeneth his neck, will suddenly be broken, and this without remedy.

¹⁵ Until a spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be changed into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be accounted as a forest.

⁸ Drop down ye heavens, and let the skies distil blessing; let the earth open and let them all be fruitful of prosperity, and let righteousness spring up likewise: I the Lord have created it.

¹ Ho, every one of ye that thirsteth, come ye to the water, and he too that hath no money: come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy without money and without price wine and milk. ² Wherefore will ye spend money for what is not bread? and your labor for what satisfieth not? hearken then unto me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. ³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the promised mercies of David, which are sure.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye on him, while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of unrighteousness his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁴ Return, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am become your husband; and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and bring you to Zion:

²⁷ Again, when the wicked turneth away from his wickedness which he hath committed, and executeth justice and righteousness: he shall indeed preserve his soul alive. ²⁸ Because he hath considered, and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die. ²⁹ Yet say the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equitable: are not my ways equitable, O house of Israel? is it not your ways which are not equitable? ³⁰ Therefore will I judge you, every one according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord Eternal: return ye, and cause others to return from all your transgressions, that iniquity may not become your stumbling-block.

¹¹ Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Eternal, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but in the return of the wicked from his way that he may live: return ye, return ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

^{1 (14:2)} Return, O Israel, even unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast stumbled through thy iniquity.

^{28 (3:1)} And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit over all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams: your young men shall see visions:

¹⁰ But I will pour out over the house of David, and over the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they will look up toward me for every one whom they have thrust through, and they will lament for him, as one lamenteth for an only son, and weep bitterly for him, as one weepeth bitterly for the first-born.

^{20 (31:21)} Thou wilt conceal them in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracy of men: thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

² Why did I come and no man was there, did I call, with none to answer? hath my hand become too short for redeeming? or is there no power in me to deliver? behold, through my threatening I can dry up the sea, I can change the rivers into a wilderness: their fish stink for want of water, and die for thirst.

¹² Yea, I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall kneel down to the slaughter; because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear; but ye did what is evil in my eyes, and that wherein I had no delight did ye choose.

⁴ So will I also make choice of their misfortune, and what they dread will I bring upon them; because I called, and none did answer; I spoke, and they did not hear; and they did what is evil in my eyes, and that in which I delighted not did they choose.

¹³ And now, whereas ye have done all these acts, saith the Lord, and I spoke unto you, causing the prophets to rise up early and speaking, while ye would not hear; and I called you, but ye would not answer:

¹⁸ Therefore I also will deal in fury; my eye shall not look with pity, and I will not spare: and though they call before my ears with a loud voice, will I still not hear them.

¹¹ But they refused to listen, and turned away rebelliously the shoulder, and stopped their ears, so as not to hear; ¹² And their heart they rendered as an adamant, so as not to hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent through his spirit, by means of the former prophets: wherefore came a great anger from the Lord of hosts.

¹⁶ But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scorned his prophets, until the fury of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

^{11 (81:12)} But my people did not hearken to my voice; and Israel was not willing to follow me.

¹¹ Because they have rebelled against the words of God, and have contemned the counsel of the Most High;

¹⁴ Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let these deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

⁴ He who dwelleth in the heavens will laugh: the Lord will hold them in derision.

¹³ The Lord will laugh at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.

¹⁵ Therefore shall suddenly come his calamity: unawares shalt he be broken without a remedy.

²⁴ What the wicked dreadeth, that will come upon him: but the longing of the righteous will God grant.

^{9 (58:10)} Before your pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.

^{22 (69:23)} May then their table become a snare before them: and to those that are at peace, a trap. ^{23 (69:24)} May their eyes become dark, that they cannot see; and make their loins continually to waver. ^{24 (69:25)} Pour out over them thy indignation, and let the heat of thy anger overtake them. ^{25 (69:26)} May their palace become desolate: in their tents let no one dwell. ^{26 (69:27)} For whom thou hast smitten they persecute; and of the pain of those whom thou but wounded do they converse. ^{27 (69:28)} Lay guilt upon their guilt; and let them not come into thy righteousness. ^{28 (69:29)} Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the righteous let them not be written down.

²⁵ Thou needest not to be afraid of sudden dread, neither of the unlooked-for tempest over the wicked, when it cometh. ²⁶ For the Lord will be thy confidence, and he will guard thy foot from being caught.

²⁴ What the wicked dreadeth, that will come upon him: but the longing of the righteous will God grant. ²⁵ As the whirlwind passeth by, the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

¹³ The nations will make a noise like the roaring of many waters; but He will rebuke it, and it shall flee afar off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as thistle-down before the tempest.

³ The Lord is long-suffering, and great in power, but he will by no means clear the guilty: the Lord—in the whirlwind and in the storm is his way, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

³ And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive for the sake of man, for that he is but flesh; yet his days of grace shall be a hundred and twenty years.

¹⁸ And ye will cry out on that day because of your king whom ye will have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.

⁹ Will God hear his cry, when distress cometh upon him?

¹² There do they cry, but he answereth not: because of the pride of evil men.

^{41 (18:42)} They cry, but there is none to help; unto the Lord,—but he answereth them not.

³⁴ When he slew them, then did they seek him, and they returned and inquired earnestly after God. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the most high God their redeemer. ³⁶ Nevertheless they prayed insincerely to him with their mouth, and with their tongue they lied unto him.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

¹¹ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will bring an evil upon them, from which they shall not be able to rid themselves; and they will cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.

¹² When they fast, I will not hear their entreaty: and when they offer burnt-offering and meat-offering, I will not receive them in favor; but by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence, will I make an end of them.

¹⁵ I will go from here, and return to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my presence: in their affliction will they seek for me.

⁴ Then will they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have committed their evil deeds.

¹³ And it is come to pass, that as he proclaimed, and they would not hear: so had they to call, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts;

¹⁴ And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us; and the knowledge of thy ways we desire not. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit shall we have, if we entreat him urgently?”

¹⁶ But unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth? ¹⁷ And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

¹¹ When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; women will come and set them on fire; for it is not a people of understanding; therefore he that made it will not have mercy on it, and he that formed it will show it no favor.

⁹ For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: ¹⁰ Who have said to the seers, Ye shall not see; and to the prophets, Reveal not unto us true things, speak unto us smooth things, reveal deceits; ¹¹ Depart you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, remove from before us the Holy One of Israel. ¹² Therefore thus hath said the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean thereon for aid:

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage to eternity; for they are the joy of my heart.

¹⁷³ Let thy hand be ready to help me; for thy precepts have I chosen.

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, they are discouraged and caught, lo, the word of the Lord have they rejected; and what wisdom have they now?

⁸ Even as I have seen, that those who plough wrong-doing, and sow trouble, have to reap the same.

¹⁴ The backslider in heart will have enough of his own ways; and from him departeth the good men.

⁸ He that soweth injustice will reap wrong-doing; and the rod of God’s wrath will not fail.

¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous, that he hath done well; for the fruit of their doings shall they eat. ¹¹ Woe unto the wicked who doeth evil; for the recompense of his hands shall be bestowed on him.

¹⁹ Thy own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall correct thee; and thou shalt know and see that evil and bitter was thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while the dread of me was not upon thee, saith the Lord Eternal of hosts.

¹⁹ Hear, O earth! behold, I will bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts; because unto my words have they not been attentive, and as regardeth my law,—that have they despised.

¹⁵ Thus did Yeshurun grow fat, and he kicked; thou art grown fat, thick, fleshy;and then he forsook the God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. ¹⁶ They incensed him with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger. ¹⁷ They sacrificed unto evil spirits, things that are not god, gods that they know not, new ones lately come up, which your fathers dreaded not. ¹⁸ Of the Rock that begat thee thou wast unmindful, and forgottest the God that had brought thee forth. ¹⁹ And the Lord saw this, and he was angry; because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. ²⁰ And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for a perverse generation are they, children in whom there is no faith. ²¹ They have moved me to wrath with things that are not god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I too will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a worthless nation. ²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and it burneth unto the lowest deep; and it consumeth the earth with her products, and it setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will heap upon them miseries; all my arrows will I spend upon them. ²⁴ They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter deadly disease; also the tooth of beasts will I let loose against them, with the poison of serpents that crawl in the dust. ²⁵ Without shall the sword destroy, and terror within the chambers, both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs. ²⁶ I said, I would drive them into one corner, I would cause their remembrance to cease from among men: ²⁷ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their oppressors should mistake the truth, lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not wrought all this. ²⁸ For a nation void of counsel are they, and there is no understanding in them. ²⁹ If they were but wise, they would understand this, they would consider their latter end! ³⁰ How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up? ³¹ For not as our Rock is their rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. ³² For from the vine of Sodom is their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, they bear bitter clusters. ³³ The poison of serpents is their wine, and the deadly venom of asps. ³⁴ Behold! this is laid up in store with me, it is sealed up among my treasures! ³⁵ Mine are vengeance and recompense, at the time that their foot shall slip; for nigh draweth the day of their calamity, and the future speedeth along for them. ³⁶ For the Lord will espouse the cause of his people, and bethink himself concerning his servants: when he seeth that their power is gone, and the guarded and fortified axe no more. ³⁷ Then will he say, Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted, ³⁸ They that ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them arise and help you, let them be a protection over you. ³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, ard there is no god with me: I alone kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver out of my hand. ⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. ⁴¹ When I whet my glittering sword, and my hand taketh hold on judgment: I will render vengeance unto my enemies, and those that hate me will I requite. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; from the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the crushed head of the enemy. ⁴³ Speak aloud, O ye nations, the praises of his people; for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and vengeance will he render to his adversaries, and forgive his land, and people. ⁴⁴ And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

^{22 (69:23)} May then their table become a snare before them: and to those that are at peace, a trap.

^{6 (92:7)} A brutish man knoweth it not, and a fool cannot understand this. ^{7 (92:8)} When the wicked spring up like herbs, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed evermore.

³⁶ But he that sinneth against me doth violence to his own soul: all those that hate me love death.

¹¹ Moab was ever at ease from his youth, and he was resting on his lees, and was not emptied from vessel to vessel, and had not gone into exile: therefore had his taste remained in him, and his scent was not changed. ¹² Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will send unto him tappers, that shall tap him, and they shall empty his vessels, and dash in pieces their bottles.

¹² Who is that man that feareth the Lord? to him will he point out the way which he is to choose? ¹³ His soul shall abide in happiness: and his seed shall inherit the land.

^{13 (81:14)} Oh that my people would hearken unto me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

⁷ Of an evil report shall he not be afraid: his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord. ⁸ Well supported is his heart, he shall not be afraid, until he looketh on the punishment of his assailants.

²¹ My son, let them not be removed from thy eyes; keep before thee sound wisdom and discretion: ²² And they will be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy throat. ²³ Then wilt thou walk in safety on thy way, and thy foot will not strike against aught: ²⁴ When thou layest thyself down, thou shalt feel no dread; and as thou liest down, thy sleep shall be pleasant.

³² And now, O children of men, hearken unto me! for happy those that observe my ways. ³³ Hear correction, and be wise, and reject it not. ³⁴ Happy is the man that hearkeneth unto me, watching day by day at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. ³⁵ For he who findeth me findeth life, and he obtaineth favor from the Lord.

¹¹ For through me shall thy days be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased unto thee.

²⁶ In the fear of the Lord is the strong confidence of man, and unto his children will it be a place of shelter.

³ The confiding mind wilt thou keep in perfect peace; because he trusteth in thee.

¹⁸ Oh that thou hadst but listened to my commandments! then would have been as a river thy peace, and thy prosperity as the waves of the sea:

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the promised mercies of David, which are sure.