Proverbs 26 Cross References - MLV

¹ As snow in summer and as rain in harvest, so honor is not becoming for a fool.
² As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not come.
³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey and a rod for the back of fools.
⁴ Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like to him. ⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he is wise in his own conceit.
⁶ He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet and drinks injury.
⁷ The legs of a lame man hang loose. So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
⁸ As he who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.
⁹ As a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
¹⁰ As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool and he who hires those who pass by.
¹¹ As a dog who returns to his vomit, is a fool who repeats his folly.
¹² See a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.
¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
¹⁴ The door turns upon its hinges, so does the sluggard upon his bed.
¹⁵ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. It wearies him to bring it again to his mouth.
¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason.
¹⁷ He who passes by and meddles with strife not his, is like he who takes a dog by the ears.
¹⁸ As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows and death, ¹⁹ so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not amusing?
²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.
²¹ As coals are to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
²² The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels and they go down into the innermost parts.
²³ Fervent lips and a wicked heart are an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
²⁴ He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him. ²⁵ Because he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
²⁶ Though his hatred cover itself with guile, his wickedness will be openly shown before the assembly.
²⁷ He who digs a pit will fall in it and he who rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
²⁸ A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded and a flattering mouth works ruin.

⁷ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice and cried out and said to them, Listen to me, you* men of Shechem, that God may listen to you*.

²⁰ But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.

⁵⁶ Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brothers. ⁵⁷ And God requited all the wickedness of the men of Shechem upon their heads. And the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

¹⁷ Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to Jehovah that he may send thunder and rain and you* will know and see that your* wickedness is great, which you* have done in the sight of Jehovah in asking a king for you*.
¹⁸ So Samuel called to Jehovah and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.

¹ After these things king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite and advanced him and set his seat above all the rulers that were with him. ² And all the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, bowed down and did reverence to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down, nor do him reverence. ³ Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why do you transgress the king's commandment?
⁴ Now it happened, when they spoke daily to him and he did not listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew. ⁵ And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down, nor do him reverence, then Haman was full of wrath.
⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
⁷ In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
⁸ And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom and their laws are diverse from those of every people, nor do they keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to endure them. ⁹ If it please the king, let it be written that they are destroyed. And I will pay ten thousand talants of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
¹⁰ And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. ¹¹ And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.
¹² Then the king's scribes were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it. And there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps and to the governors who were over every province and to the rulers of every people, to every province according to the writing of it and to every people after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written. And it was sealed with the king's ring.
¹³ And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little sons and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
¹⁴ A copy of the writing that the decree should be given out in every province was proclaimed to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. ¹⁵ The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.
And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

⁶ So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

⁹ And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

⁸ The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

⁴ in whose eyes those who reject God are despised, but who honors those who fear Jehovah, he that swears to his own hurt and changes not,

¹ Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual.

⁷ Excellent speech is not becoming to a fool, much less lying lips to a prince.

¹⁰ Luxurious living is not becoming for a fool, much less a servant to have rule over rulers.

³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey and a rod for the back of fools.

⁸ As he who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.

¹⁶ The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness will prolong his days.

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were, an error which proceeds from the ruler: ⁶ Folly is set in great dignity and the rich sit in a low place. ⁷ I have seen servants upon horses and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.

⁸ How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah has not defied?

⁴ because they met you* not with bread and with water on the way, when you* came forth out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵ Nevertheless Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.

²⁸ Then one of the people answered and said, Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day and the people were faint.
²⁹ Then Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. See, I beseech you*, how my eyes have been enlightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

¹² It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done to me and that Jehovah will reward me good for his cursing of me this day.

² because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them. However our God turned the curse into a blessing.

²⁸ Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

⁵ And he said to the men of Succoth, Give, I beseech you*, loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are faint and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian. ⁶ And the rulers of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand that we should give bread to your army?
⁷ And Gideon said, Therefore when Jehovah has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your* flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

⁹ Do not become as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be a bit and bridle to hold them in, else they will not come near to you.

¹³ Wisdom is found in the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

¹⁰ A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

²⁵ Strike a scoffer and a simple man will learn prudence. And reprove he who has understanding and he will understand knowledge.

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.

²² Though you should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

²¹ What do you wish? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

⁶ and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.

² I have spoken to you beforehand and I do say again like beforehand, being present the second-time and so being absent now, I am writing to warn those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not be sparing them,

¹ And the men of Ephraim were gathered together and passed northward. And they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the sons of Ammon and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house upon you with fire.
² And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon and when I called you*, you* did not save me out of their hand. ³ And when I saw that you* did not save me, I put my life in my hand and passed opposite the sons of Ammon and Jehovah delivered them into my hand. Why then have you* come up to me this day, to fight against me?
⁴ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead killed* Ephraim, because they said, You* are fugitives of Ephraim, you* Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.
⁵ And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No, ⁶ then they said to him, Say now Shibboleth and he said Sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right, then they laid hold on him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.

⁴¹ And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household, over the Jordan and all David's men with him?
⁴² And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you* angry for this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's cost, or has he given us any gift?
⁴³ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, We have ten parts in the king and we have also more right in David than you*. Why then did you* despise us, that our advice should not be had first in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

¹⁴ and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your* yoke heavy, but I will add to your* yoke. My father disciplined you* with whips, but I will chastise you* with scorpions.

¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your* tents, O Israel. Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

⁸ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, King of Israel, saying, Come, let us look each other in the face.
⁹ And Jehoash the King of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as a wife. And a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle. ¹⁰ You have indeed struck Edom and your heart has lifted you up. Glory by it and abide at home, for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, even you and Judah with you?

¹⁴ The beginning of strife is like letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarreling.

⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he is wise in his own conceit.

²¹ But they held their peace and answered him not a word. For the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

²¹ For you were called into this, because Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving a model for you, in order that you should follow after his footprints. ²² He who did no sin, nor was treachery found in his mouth; ²³ who, being reviled, was not reviling again in return; when suffering, was not threatening, (but was giving himself to the one who judges righteously),

⁹ not repaying evil in exchange-for evil or reviling in exchange-for reviling, but instead, speaking well of others; knowing that you were called for this, in order that you should inherit a blessing.

⁹ But Michael the archangel, when arguing with the devil, after he was reasoning concerning the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a judging of blasphemy against him, but said, The Lord rebuke you.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and killed* Micaiah on the cheek and said, Which way did the Spirit of Jehovah go from me to speak to you? ²⁵ And Micaiah said, Behold, you will see on that day when you will go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
²⁶ And the King of Israel said, Take Micaiah and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son, ²⁷ and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I come in peace. ²⁸ And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Jehovah has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, you* peoples, all of you*.

⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

⁴ Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like to him.

¹² See a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but a poor man who has understanding searches him out.

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight!

¹⁷ And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth? ¹⁸ Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth and I wrote them with ink in the book.

¹ Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying, ² Why are your disciples transgressing the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.
³ But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, testing him, and asked him to show them a sign from heaven. ² But having answered, he said to them, When it becomes evening, you say, It will be fair-weather; for the heaven is red. ³ And in the morning, There will be a storm today; for the heaven is red and dismal. Hypocrites! You indeed know how to discern the face of the heaven, but you are not able to discern the signs of the times. ⁴ An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And he left them and went away.

²³ And having come to him in the temple, the high-priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, saying, By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?
²⁴ But Jesus answered and said to them, I will also ask you one question, which if you tell me, then I will also tell you by what authority I am doing these things. ²⁵ The immersion of John, where was it from, from heaven or from men?
Now they were reasoning with themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, Therefore why did you not believe him? ²⁶ But if we say, From men; we fear the crowd; for all are holding John up like a prophet. ²⁷ And they answered Jesus and said, We do not know.
He also said to them, Nor do I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees traveled away and took counsel on how they might ensnare him in his speech. ¹⁶ And they send their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and do not care concerning anyone’s appearance; for you do not look at the countenance of men. ¹⁷ Therefore tell us, What do you think? Is it legal to give tribute to Caesar or not?
¹⁸ But Jesus, having known their wickedness, said, Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹ Show me the tribute coin. Now they brought to him a denarius. ²⁰ And he says to them, Whose face is this image and inscription? ²¹ They say to him, Caesar’s. Then he says to them, Therefore give to Caesar, the things which are Caesar’s, and to God, the things which are God’s. ²² And having heard it, they marveled, and went away, leaving him.

²³ In that day, the Sadducees came to him, saying that there is no resurrection, and they asked him, ²⁴ saying, Teacher, Moses said, If anyone dies, having no children, his brother will marry his wife and will be raising up seed to his brother. ²⁵ Now seven brethren were with us, and the first having married, but after he was dead, his wife had no seed left to his brother; ²⁶ likewise also the second and the third, until the seventh. ²⁷ But after them all, the woman also died. ²⁸ Therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven in the resurrection? For they all had her as a wife.
²⁹ But Jesus answered and said to them, You are being misled, by not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. ³⁰ For they neither marry, nor are betrothed in the resurrection, but are like messengers of God in heaven. ³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what has been said to you by God, saying, ³² I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

¹³ Now someone out of the crowd said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.
¹⁴ But he said to him, Man, who designated me a justice or a divider over you?
¹⁵ Now he said to them, See and guard yourselves from greed, because not to anyone is his life in the abundance of his possessions.
¹⁶ Now he spoke a parable to them, saying: The farmland of a certain rich man was fertile; ¹⁷ and he was reasoning in himself, saying, What should I do, because I have nowhere, in which, I will gather together my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, I will be doing this: I will be taking down my barns and build greater ones. And I will be gathering together there, all my fruits of labor and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will be saying to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; rest yourself, eat, drink, and be joyous.
²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, your soul is asked back from you in this night, and the things which you prepared, whose will they be? ²¹ So is he who is storing up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

²³ Now someone said to him, Lord, if only those few are saved?
But he said to them, ²⁴ Struggle to enter in through the narrow gate, because I am saying to you, Many will be seeking to enter in and will not be strong-enough. ²⁵ From whenever time the householder arose and locked the door and you, being outside, may begin to stand and to knock on the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
And when he has answered the knock, he will say to you, I do not know you or where you are from. ²⁶ Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your sight and you taught in our streets.
²⁷ And he will say, I say to you, I do not know you or where you are from. Withdraw from me, everyone–the workers of unrighteousness. ²⁸ The weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there, whenever you^\'b0 see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth outside. ²⁹ And they will be coming from the east and west and north and south, and will be reclining in the kingdom of God. ³⁰ And behold, there are last who will be first and there are first who will be last.

⁷ Now as they were remaining, asking him, he stood-erect and said to them, The sinless one among you, let him cast the first stone upon her.

²⁶ But they said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?
²⁷ He answered them, I spoke to you already and you did not hear; why are you wishing to hear it again? Do you wish also to become his disciples?
²⁸ They reviled him and said, You are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but this one, we do not know where he is from.
³⁰ The man answered and said to them, For a marvelous thing is in this, because you do not know where he is from and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹ But we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and if he is practicing his will, he hears him. ³² It has not been heard from the beginning of the world, that anyone has opened the eyes of one who had been born blind. ³³ If this one was not from God, he would be unable to do anything.

²⁵ For brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant of this mystery (that you may not be too prudent with yourselves), that a hardening has become partially to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles should enter;

¹⁶ Being mindful of the same things toward one another and not being mindful of the exalted things, but involve yourself with the humble. Do not become too prudent with yourselves.

¹³ This testimony is true. Because of which case, reprove them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

³¹ But the men who went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador is health.

¹³ As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, is a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

¹⁶ But to the wicked man God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes and that you have taken my covenant in your mouth, ¹⁷ since you hate instruction and cast my words behind you?
¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you consented with him and have been partaker with adulterers. ¹⁹ You give your mouth to evil and your tongue frames deceit. ²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
²¹ These things you have done and I kept silence. You thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself. But I will reprove you and set them in order before your eyes.

⁸ So they will be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them will wag the head.

⁹ As a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

⁴ Or how will you say to your brother, Allow me, that I may cast out the speck from your eye, and behold, the beam in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see precisely to cast out the speck from your brother’s eye.

²³ And he said to them, You will certainly say this parable to me, Physician, heal yourself. We have heard how much had happened in Capernaum, do it here also in your fatherland.

¹ As snow in summer and as rain in harvest, so honor is not becoming for a fool.

²² For a servant when he is king and a fool when he is filled with food,

³⁵ They have stricken me, you will say and I was not hurt. They have beaten me and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

³¹ Behold, a righteous man will be recompensed in the earth, also the wicked man and the sinner!

⁶ who will ‘repay to each according to his works.’

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.

⁴⁵ Then it travels and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself and they enter and dwell there and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will also be to this evil generation.

²² But it has befallen to them as the way of the true proverb, ‘ The dog having turning again toward his own vomit,’and the sow that had fully-washed, to wallowing in the mud.

²⁹ See a man diligent in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before insignificant men.

¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason.

²⁰ See a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

³¹ Which one out of the two did the will of his father?
They say, The first.
Jesus says to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will precede you into the kingdom of God.

⁴⁴ And turning to the woman, he said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she has rained on my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and was praying these things with himself, God, I give-thanks to you, that I am not like the rest of men: swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers or just-like this tax collector.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone seems to be wise in this age among you, let him become foolish, in order that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, ‘ It is he who grabs the wise in their craftiness';

¹ Now brethren, we are making known to you the grace of God which has been given in the congregations of Macedonia; ² because the abundance of their joy in much trial of affliction and according to the depth of their poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

¹⁷ Because you say, I am rich and have enriched ourselves and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are the miserable and the pitiful and are poor and blind and naked.

¹⁹ The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is made a highway.

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep and the idle soul will suffer hunger.

¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I will be slain in the streets.

⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

²⁴ The hand of the diligent will rule, but the slothful will be put under forced-labor.

²⁷ The slothful man roasts not what he took in hunting, but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

³³ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

¹² in order that you should not become sluggish, but imitators of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.

²⁴ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

¹⁵ but make the Lord God holy in your hearts, and be ready habitually with a defense to everyone who is asking you for a reason concerning the hope which is in you, with meekness and fear;

¹¹ An evil man seeks only rebellion. Therefore a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calls for stripes.

³ It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

¹⁴ But he said to him, Man, who designated me a justice or a divider over you?

²³ But renounce foolish and non-instructive debates, knowing that they give-birth to quarrels. ²⁴ But it is essential for the Lord’s bondservant to not quarrel, but to be mild toward all, skilled in teaching, tolerating it when being mistreated,

²³ The archers embittered at him and shot at him and persecute him,

²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

¹⁸ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul and a sword and a sharp arrow.

¹¹ Behold, all you* who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands, walk you* in the flame of your* fire and among the brands that you* have kindled. This you* will have from my hand. You* will lie down in sorrow.

²³ It is as sport to a fool to do mischief and so is wisdom to a man of understanding.

⁹ Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.

²¹ Folly is joy to him who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding makes his going straight.

⁴ and do not let obscenity, and foolish-talk or petty jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving.

¹³ They will be getting the wages of unrighteousness; those who are deeming the carousing in the day to be a sensual-delight. They are stains and blemishes, carousing in their own acts of deception, while feasting sumptuously alongside you,

²⁸ A perverse man scatters abroad strife and a whisperer separates chief friends.

¹⁰ Cast out the scoffer and contention will go out, yes, strife and reproach will cease.

²² The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels and they go down into the innermost parts.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus the tongue is designated among our members as what stains the whole body and ignites the birth cycle and is ignited by hell.

¹ And there happened to be there a worthless fellow whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew the trumpet and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O Israel.

² And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt, ³ and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

²⁰ And it happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David, but only the tribe of Judah.

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

¹² Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.

²² An angry man stirs up strife and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.

³³ Because the churning of milk brings forth butter and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood, so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.

⁸ The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels and they go down into the innermost parts.

¹⁹ He who goes about as a gossiper reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with he who opens his lips wide.

⁹ Slanderers have been in you to shed blood and in you they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
¹⁰ But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he killed* him with it in the body and shed out his guts to the ground and struck him not again and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

¹⁸ He who hides hatred is from lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.

⁴ Take away the dross from the silver and there comes forth a vessel for the refiner.

³¹ And they come to you as the people come and they sit before you as my people. And they hear your words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are similar to whitewashed burial chambers, which on the outside indeed appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones, and full of all uncleanness.

³⁹ But the Lord said to him, Now you, the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but the inside of you is full from swindling and wickedness.

⁴⁷ While he is still speaking, behold, a crowd and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was going before them, and he drew near to Jesus to kiss him. ⁴⁸ But Jesus said to him, Judas, are you giving up the Son of Man with a kiss?

⁶ And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers wickness to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

¹ A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah, but a just weight is his delight.

⁵ The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.

¹⁷ He who breathes-out truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness, deceit.

²⁰ Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but joy is to the counselors of peace.

⁸ The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. They speak with a flattering lip and with a double heart.

³ Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of wickedness, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

¹⁶ There are six things which Jehovah hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to him: ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹ a false witness who breathes-out lies and he who sows discord among brothers.

² Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. ³ And they bend their tongue–their bow–for falsehood and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil and they do not know me, says Jehovah.
⁴ You* take heed each one of his neighbor and trust you* not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbor will go about with gossipers. ⁵ And they will deceive each one his neighbor and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They inwardly set up an ambush. ⁶ Your habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says Jehovah.
⁷ Therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will melt them and try them, for how else should I do, because of the daughter of my people? ⁸ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies wait for him.

⁶ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they have cried aloud after you. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.

⁵ Trust you* not in a neighbor. Put you* not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

²³ Then if anyone says to you, Behold, here is the Christ; or, over here is the Christ. Do not believe it.

⁸ And Cain told Abel his brother. And it happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

¹⁷ And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight Jehovah's battles. For Saul said, Do not let my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

²¹ And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, You will this day be my son-in-law a second time.

²⁷ And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly and killed* him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
²⁸ And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah until everlasting of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. ²⁹ Let it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house. And let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread. ³⁰ So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

²² And Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
²³ And it happened after two full years, that Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim and Absalom invited all the king's sons. ²⁴ And Absalom came to the king and said, Behold now, your servant has sheep-shearers. Let the king, I beseech you and his servants go with your servant. ²⁵ And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, lest we are burdensome to you. And he pressed him. However he would not go, but blessed him.
²⁶ Then Absalom said, If not, I beseech you, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with you? ²⁷ But Absalom pressed him and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
²⁸ And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Notice you* now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine and when I say to you*, Strike Amnon, then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you*? Be courageous and be valiant.

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. ²² (Cast your burden upon Jehovah and he will sustain you. He will not allow the righteous man to be shaken everlasting.)
²³ But you, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

¹⁵ He has made a pit and dug it and has fallen into the ditch which he made. ¹⁶ His mischief will return upon his own head and his violence will come down upon his own scalp.

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

² The poor man is hotly-pursued in the pride of the wicked man. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

⁶ They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.

¹⁰ He who causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall himself into his own pit. But the perfect will inherit good.

⁸ He who digs a pit will fall into it and he who breaks through a wall, a serpent will bite him.

²⁴ to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreign woman who flatters with her words.

²¹ She causes him to yield with her much fair speech. She forces him along with the flattering of her lips.
²² He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

⁵ A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

²⁰ And having observed him, they sent forth agents, who themselves pretended to be righteous, in order that they might grab him from his speech, that they might give him to the rule and the authority of the governor. ²¹ And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach correctly, and do not accept the countenance of men, but in truth, are teaching the way of God.

⁴⁰ But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I heard from God. Abraham did not ever do this.

⁴⁴ You are from your father, the devil, and you to do the lusts of your father. That one was a murderer from the beginning and is not standing in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of it. ⁴⁵ But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which out of you convicts me concerning sin? But if I speak the truth, why are you not believing in me? ⁴⁷ He who is from God hears the declarations of God, but because of this, you do not hear them, because you are not from God.
⁴⁸ Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and you have a demon?
⁴⁹ Jesus answered, I do not have a demon, but I am honoring my Father and you are dishonoring me.

³² Jesus answered them, I have showed you many good works from my Father, because of what work from those do you stone me?
³³ The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you concerning a good work, but concerning blasphemy, and because you being a man, are making yourself God.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they were having no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin. ²³ He who hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, then they were having no sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.