Proverbs 22 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.
² The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
³ A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.
⁴ The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.
⁵ Thorns and snares, are in the way of the perverse,––he that guardeth his soul, shall be far from them.
⁶ Train up a youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh old, he will not depart from it.
⁷ The rich, over the poor, beareth rule,––and, slave, is the borrower to the lender.
⁸ He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
⁹ A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed,––because he hath given of his bread to the poor.
¹⁰ Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
¹¹ Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!
¹² The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
¹³ Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
¹⁴ A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
¹⁵ Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.
¹⁷ Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching; ¹⁸ For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips. ¹⁹ That in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee today, even to thee. ²⁰ Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge: ²¹ To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.
²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.
²⁴ Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in: ²⁵ Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.
²⁶ Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts: ²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?
²⁸ Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father’s made.
²⁹ Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.

⁴⁷ Moreover also, the servants of the king have been in, to bless our lord King David, saying––Thy God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne,––And the king bowed himself upon his bed.

¹ Better a name, than precious ointment,––and the day of death, than the day of one’s birth.

²⁰ Notwithstanding, in this, be not rejoicing––that, the spirits, unto you submit themselves; but be rejoicing––that, your names, are inscribed in the heavens!

¹⁰ And rescued him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he appointed him governor over Egypt and all his house.

³ Yea! I request thee also, true yokefellow, be thou helping together with these women,––who, indeed, in the joyful message, have maintained the combat with me, along with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow–workers, whose names, are in the book of life.

³⁹ And, these all, though they obtained witness through their faith, yet bare not away, the promise:

⁷ Yahweh, maketh poor, and enricheth,––Layeth low, yea exalteth;

¹⁵ Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?

¹⁹ For he hath shewn no respect of persons unto princes, neither hath he recognised the rich rather than the poor? For, the work of his hands, are they all.

¹ [To the Chief Musician. For the Sons of Korah. A Melody.]
Hear ye this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of this passing world; ² Both sons of the low, And sons of the high,––Together both rich and needy:––

³¹ The oppressor of the poor, hath reproached his Maker, but he that sheweth favour to the needy, is one who, holdeth Him in honour.

¹³ The poor man and the man of usury, meet together, he that enlighteneth the eyes of them both, is Yahweh.

¹⁹ Now, a certain man, was rich, and he used to clothe himself with purple and fine linen, making merry day by day, brilliantly. ²⁰ And, a certain beggar, by name Lazarus, used to be cast near his gate, full of sores,

²¹ [And] the eye cannot say unto the hand––I have no need of thee,––nor, again, the head, unto the feet––I have no need of you:––

² For, if there enter into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings in gay clothing, and there enter a destitute man also, in soiled clothing,–– ³ And ye eye him that hath on the gay clothing, and say, Thou, be sitting here, pleasantly,––and, unto the destitute man, say––Thou, stand, or sit there under my footstool, ⁴ Would ye not have been led to make distinctions among yourselves, and have become judges with wicked reasonings? ⁵ Hearken! my brethren beloved:––Hath not, God, chosen the destitute in the world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

²⁰ He that feared the word of Yahweh, among the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and his cattle flee, under shelter; ²¹ but, whoso applied not his heart unto the word of Yahweh, left his servants and his cattle, in the field.

⁷ And saw among the simple ones, discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense;

²² Going after her instantly, as an ox, to the slaughter, he entereth, and, as in fetters, unto the correction of a fool. ²³ Until an arrow cleaveth his liver, as a bird hasteth into a snare, and knoweth not, that, for his life, it is!

¹⁶ Whoso is simple, let him turn aside hither, and, as for him that lacketh sense, she saith to him: ¹⁷ Stolen waters, will be sweet,––and a secret meal, will be pleasant; ¹⁸ But he knoweth not, that the shades are there; In the depths of hades, are her guests.

¹⁶ A wise man, feareth, and avoideth evil, but, a dullard, is haughty and confident.

¹² A prudent man, seeth calamity––he hideth himself, the simple, pass on––they suffer.

¹ He that being often reproved stiffeneth his neck, suddenly shall be hurt, and there be no healing.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee,––Hide thee, as it were, a little moment, Till the indignation pass over. ²¹ For lo! Yahweh, is coming forth out of his place, To visit the iniquity of earth’s inhabitant upon him,––Therefore shall the earth unveil her shed–blood, And throw a covering, no longer, over her slain.

¹⁵ Whensoever, therefore, ye shall see the abomination desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place,––he that readeth, let him think, ¹⁶ Then, they who are in Judaea, let them flee into the mountains; ¹⁷ And, he that is on the house–top, let him not come down, to take away the things out of his house; ¹⁸ And, he that is in the field, let him not turn back, to take away his mantle.

² For, ye yourselves, perfectly well know––that, the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so, cometh; ³ As soon as they begin to say––Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction,––just as the birth–throe unto her that is with child,––and in nowise shall they escape. ⁴ But, ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that, the day, upon you, as upon thieves, should lay hold; ⁵ For, all ye, are, sons of light, and sons of day,––we are not of night, nor of darkness:
⁶ Hence, then, let us not be sleeping, as the rest, but let us watch and be sober:––

¹⁸ In order that, through means of two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to make himself false, a mighty consolation, we might have, who have fled along to grasp, the fore–lying hope,

⁷ By faith, Noah, having received intimation concerning the things not yet seen, filled with reverence, prepared an ark to the saving of his house––through which he condemned the world, and, of the righteousness by way of faith, became heir.

⁹ Revere Yahweh, ye his holy ones, For there is no want to them who revere him. ¹⁰ Young lions, have come short, and suffered hunger, but, they who seek Yahweh, shall not lack any good thing.

¹ Praise ye Yah! How happy is the man who revereth Yahweh, In his commandments, delighteth he greatly; ² Mighty in the earth, shall be his seed, The generation of the upright, shall be blessed; ³ Wealth and riches, shall be in his house, and, his righteousness, standeth for aye.

¹⁶ Length of days, is in her right hand, in her left, are riches and honour;

²¹ He that pursueth righteousness and lovingkindness, shall find life, righteousness and honour.

⁶ So shall a wealth of deliverances, wisdom and knowledge, become the stability of thy times,––the reverence of Yahweh, the same, is his treasure.

¹⁵ For, thus, saith he that is high, and lifted up––Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and, To revive the heart of them who are crushed; ––

³³ But be seeking first, the kingdom and its righteousness,––and, all these things, shall be added unto you.

⁸ For, the bodily training, for little, is profitable, whereas, godliness, for all things is profitable,––having, promise, of life––the present and the coming.

⁶ Howbeit he giveth, greater, favour. Wherefore it saith––God, against the haughty, arrayeth himself, Whereas, unto the lowly, he giveth favour.

¹⁰ Be made low in presence of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

¹³ know, that Yahweh your God will no further drive out these nations from before you,––but they will become unto you a snare and a hook, and a goad in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye have perished from off this goodly soil, which Yahweh your God hath given unto you.

⁸ For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;

⁶ He will rain upon the lawless live–coals, Fire and brimstone and a burning wind, are the portion of their cup.

²⁶ With the pure, thou didst show thyself pure, But, with the perverse, thou didst show thyself ready to contend. ²⁷ For, as for thee, an oppressed people, thou didst save, but, looks that were lofty, layedst thou low;

¹ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, Under the shadow of the Almighty, will tarry,

³ He that watcheth his mouth, guardeth his soul, He that openeth wide his lips, [it shall be] his ruin.

¹⁵ Sound discretion, yieldeth favour, but, the way of the treacherous, is rugged.

¹⁹ The way of the sluggard, is like a thorn hedge, but, the path of the upright, is a raised road.

¹⁷ The highway of the upright, is to avoid evil, He preserveth his soul, who guardeth his way.

¹⁶ One who guardeth the commandment, guardeth his life, he that is reckless in his ways, shall die.

¹⁸ We know that, whosoever hath been born of God, is not committing sin,––Nay, he that hath been born of God, He keepeth him, and, the wicked one, doth not touch him.

²⁰ But, ye, beloved! building yourselves up in your most holy faith, in Holy Spirit, praying, ²¹ Yourselves, in God’s love, keep,––awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto age–abiding life.

¹⁹ For I have become his intimate friend, To the end that he may command his sons and his house after him, so shall they keep the way of Yahweh, by doing righteousness and justice,––To the end that Yahweh may bring in for Abraham, what he hath spoken concerning him.

⁹ Only take thou heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, so that thou forget not the things which thine own eyes have seen, and so that they go not out of thy heart, all the days of thy life,––but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons, and unto thy sons’ sons:––

⁷ and thou shalt impress them upon thy sons, and shalt speak of them,––when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

²⁸ Hence, I also, have loaned him unto Yahweh, all the days that he liveth. He, is lent unto Yahweh. And he bowed down there, unto Yahweh.

²⁶ But, the boy Samuel, went on growing in stature, and in favour,––both with Yahweh, and also with men.

² Now, therefore, lo! the king going to and fro before you, But, I, am old and grey–headed, and, my sons, lo! they are with you,––But, I, have gone to and fro before you from my youth until this day. ³ Behold me! testify against me, before Yahweh, and before his Anointed––Whose, ox, have I taken? or whose, ass, have I taken? or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I crushed? or at whose, hands, have I taken a bribe, to cover up mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it unto you.

³ Which we have heard, and come to know, And, our fathers, have recounted to us; ⁴ We will not withhold [them] from their children, To a later generation, recounting the praises of Yahweh, Even his might and his wonders which he wrought; ⁵ When he set up a testimony in Jacob, And, a law, appointed in Israel,––Which he commanded our fathers, That they might make them known to their children; ⁶ To the end, A later generation might come to know, Children who should be born, Who should arise, and recount [them] to their children;

⁴ And ye fathers, be not provoking your children to anger, but be nourishing them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

¹⁵ And that, from a babe, those sacred letters, thou hast known which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus:

¹ Now, a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets, made outcry unto Elisha, saying––Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and, thou, knowest that, thy servant, was one who revered Yahweh,––now, the creditor, hath come to take my two boys to himself as bondmen.

⁴ And there were others who were saying, We have borrowed silver, for the king’s tribute,––[upon] our lands and our vineyards. ⁵ Now, therefore, as is the flesh of our brethren, so is our flesh, as are their children, so are our children. Yet lo! we are putting in subjection our sons and our daughters, for bondservants, yea there are some of our daughters already trodden down, and we are powerless, and, our fields and our vineyards, belong to others.

²³ Supplications, doth the poor man utter, but, the rich, answereth fiercely.

¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

² And it shall be––As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so, his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress,––As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor.

⁶ Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Israel, and because of four, will I not turn it back,––Because they have sold––for silver––the righteous, and the needy––for a pair of shoes:

¹ Hear ye this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,––who say to their lords, Bring in, and let us drink!

¹¹ Therefore––because ye have trampled on the poor, and, the gift of corn, ye would take away from him, though, houses of hewn stone, ye have built, Yet shall ye not dwell in them,––Though, delightful vineyards, ye have planted, Yet shall ye not drink the wine of them. ¹² For I know how numerous are your transgressions, and how surpassing your sins,––ye adversaries of the righteous! ye acceptors of a bribe! Even the needy in the gate, have they turned away!

⁴ Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:

⁶ Who buy––for silver––the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes,––and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.

²⁵ and, he, not having, wherewith to pay, the master ordered him to be sold, and the wife, and the children, and whatsoever he had,––and payment to be made.

⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice?

¹ Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you:

⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:

⁸ So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

³ For the sceptre of lawlessness shall not remain over the allotment of the righteous,––lest the righteous put forth––unto perversity––their hands.

³ In the mouth of the foolish, is a haughty rod, but, as for the lips of the wise, thou shalt give heed to them!

⁴ For, the yoke of their burden, The cross–bar of their shoulder, The goad of their driver, Hast thou broken, as in the day of Midian.

⁵ Alas! for Assyria, the rod of mine anger,––Yea, the very staff in their hand, is, my displeasure:

²⁹ Do not rejoice, Philistia, any of thee, In that the rod of him that smote thee, is broken,––For, out of the root of the serpent, shall come forth, a viper, And his fruit be a fiery dragon that flieth.

³¹ For, at the voice of Yahweh, shall Assyria, be crushed,––With his rod, will he smite.

⁷ For, to the wind, they sow, and, to the whirlwind, they reap: stalk, hath it none, That which shooteth forth, shall yield no meal, If so be it yield, foreigners, swallow it lip,

¹³ Ye have plowed lawlessness, perversity, have ye reaped, ye have eaten the fruit of deception,––because thou didst trust in thy chariots, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

⁷ Be not deceiving yourselves! God, is not to be mocked; for, whatsoever a man soweth, the same, shall he also reap,–– ⁸ Because, he that soweth into his own flesh, out of the flesh, shall reap corruption, whereas, he that soweth into the Spirit, out of the Spirit, shall reap age–abiding life.

⁷ When there cometh to be among you a needy person, any one of thy brethren, within any one of thy gates, in thy land, which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother: ⁸ but thou shalt, open, thy hand unto him,––and, lend, him, enough to meet the poverty which doth impoverish him. ⁹ Take thou heed to thyself, lest there be something near thine abandoned heart, saying––Drawing nigh, is the seventh year, the year of release, and so thine eye be, evil, against thy needy brother, and thou give not unto him,––and he cry out against thee, unto Yahweh, and it become in thee, a sin! ¹⁰ Thou shalt, give, unto him, and thy heart, shall not be evil, when thou givest unto him,––for, on account of this very thing, will Yahweh thy God bless thee, in all that thou doest, and in all whereunto thou puttest thy hand. ¹¹ For the needy will not cease out of the midst of the land––for this cause, am I commanding thee, saying, Thou shalt, open, thy hand unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who hath never adventured the sole of her foot, to set it upon the ground, through delicateness and through tenderness, her eye shall be jealous of the husband of her bosom, and of her own son, and of her own daughter;

¹⁶ If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed; ¹⁷ Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her: ¹⁹ If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;

¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Melody of David.]
How happy is he that is attentive to the poor, In the day of calamity, will Yahweh deliver him: ² Yahweh, will preserve him and keep him alive, And he shall be pronounced happy in the land, Do not then give him up at the desire of his enemies! ³ Yahweh, will sustain him upon the bed of sickness, All his couch, hast thou transformed in his disease.

⁹ He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy, His righteousness, standeth for aye, His horn, shall be exalted in honour.

²⁵ The liberal soul, shall be enriched, and, he that refresheth, shall himself also be refreshed.

¹⁷ A lender to Yahweh, is one who sheweth favour to the poor, and, his good deed, He will pay him back.

¹³ He that shutteth his ear from the cry of the poor, even he, shall call, and not be answered.

¹ Cast thy bread–corn, upon the face of the waters,––for, after many days, shalt thou find it: ² Give a portion to seven, yea even to eight,––for thou canst not know, what there shall be of misfortune, upon the earth.

⁸ But, a noble man, noble things, hath devised,––And, he, upon noble things, will stand,

⁷ Is it not to break, unto the hungry, thy bread, And, the thrust–out oppressed, that thou bring into a home,––When thou seest one naked, that thou cover him, And, from thine own flesh, shalt not hide thyself?
⁸ Then, shall break forth, as the dawn, thy light, And, thy new flesh, shall, speedily, grow,––Then shall go, before thee, thy righteousness, The glory of Yahweh, shall bring up thy rear: ⁹ Then, shalt thou, Call, and, Yahweh, will answer, Cry out, and he will say, Behold me! If thou remove, out of thy midst, The yoke, The pointing of the finger, and, The speaking of iniquity; ¹⁰ And shalt let thine own soul, go out to the hungry, And, the soul of the oppressed, thou shalt satisfy, Then shall break forth, in darkness, thy light, And, thy thick darkness, [become] as the splendour of noon; ¹¹ Then will Yahweh guide, thee continually, And will satisfy, [even] in scorched regions, thine own soul, Yea, thy very bones, will he invigorate,––So shall thou become, like a garden well––watered, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not deceive; ¹² And they who come of thee, shall build the wastes of age–past times, And, as for the foundations of generation after generation, thou shalt rear them up,––So shalt thou be called––A Repairer of broken walls, A Restorer of paths leading home.

¹⁵ Is it not allowed me to do, what I please, with my own? or is, thine eye, evil, because I good?

³⁴ Then, will the king say to those on his right hand: Come ye, the blessed of my Father! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; ³⁵ For I hungered, and ye gave me to eat, I thirsted, and ye gave me drink, a stranger, was I, and ye took me home, ³⁶ Naked, and ye clothed me, sick, and ye visited me, in prison, was I, and ye came unto me. ³⁷ Then, will the righteous answer him, saying: Lord! when, saw we thee––hungry, and fed thee, or thirsty, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ And, when, saw we thee––a stranger, and took thee home, or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ And, when, saw we thee––sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? ⁴⁰ And, answering, the king will say unto them: Verily, I say unto you––Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my least brethren, unto me, ye did it.

²² murders, adulteries, covetousnesses, knaveries, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, profane speaking, foolishness,––

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for, nothing, back; and your reward shall be, great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High,––for, he, is, gracious, unto the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Become ye compassionate, according as, your Father, is, compassionate;
³⁷ And do not judge, and in nowise shall ye be judged; and do not condemn, and in nowise shall ye be condemned; release, and ye shall be released; ³⁸ Give, and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will they give into your lap; for, with what measure ye mete, shall it be measured back unto you.

¹³ But, whensoever, an entertainment, thou mayest be making, invite the destitute, the tried, the lame, the blind;

³⁵ In all things, I gave you to understand, that, thus toiling, it behoves to be helping the weak, also to be keeping in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, that, he himself, said––Happy is it, rather to give than to receive!

¹ Moreover we make known unto you, brethren, the favour of God which hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,–– ² That, in a great testing of tribulation, the superabounding of their joy and their deep destitution, superabounded unto the riches of their liberality;

⁶ As to this, however, he that soweth sparingly, sparingly, also shall reap, and, he that soweth with blessings, with blessings, also shall reap: ⁷ Each one, according as he hath purposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of necessity,––for, a cheerful giver, God, loveth. ⁸ Moreover God is able to cause, every gracious gift, to superabound unto you, in order that, having in every thing, at every time, every kind of sufficiency of your own, ye may be superabounding unto every good work; ⁹ Even as it is written––He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy,––his righteousness, abideth to futurity. ¹⁰ Now, he that supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for eating, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and cause to grow your fruits of righteousness: ¹¹ In every thing, being enriched, unto every kind of liberality,––which, indeed, worketh out, through us, thanksgiving unto God;

¹⁸ To be doing good, to be rich in noble works, to be, generous in giving, ready for fellowship,–– ¹⁹ Treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the life [which is life] indeed.

¹⁰ For, not unrighteous, is God, to be forgetful of your work and of the love which ye have shewn forth for his name, in that ye have ministered unto the saints, and are ministering,

¹⁶ But, of the doing good and of fellowship, be not forgetful; for, with such sacrifices as these, is, God, well–pleased.

⁹ Showing hospitality one to another without murmuring,––

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian woman, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing! ¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son,––for the son of this bondwoman must not inherit, with my son, with Isaac.

¹ But it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, it angered him, and he was greatly displeased,––and mocked the Jews; ² and spake before his brethren, and the army of Samaria, and said, What are, these feeble Jews, doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they bring to life the stones out of the heaps of dust, when, they, have been burned up? ³ Now, Tobiah the Ammonite, was beside him,––so he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox should go up, he would break down their stone wall!

²⁸ And, one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was son–in–law to Sanballat the Horonite,––therefore I chased him from me.

⁵ He that uttereth slander in secret against his friend, him, will I root out; One of lofty eyes, and of an ambitious heart, him shall I not be able to endure.

⁶ The lips of a dullard, enter into contention, and his mouth, for blows, crieth out.

²⁴ A haughty insolent one––Scoffer is his name, is he that acteth in a transport of pride.

²⁰ Without wood a fire is quenched, and, where there is no tattler, strife is hushed. ²¹ Black coal to burning blocks, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man, for kindling strife.

¹⁷ But, if he hear them amiss, tell it to the assembly,––And, if, even the assembly, he hear amiss, Let him be unto thee, just as the man of the nations and the tax–collector.

⁵ To deliver such a one as this, unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh,––that, the spirit, may be saved in the day of the Lord. ⁶ Unseemly, is your boast! Know ye not that, a little leaven, doth leaven, the whole of the lump?

¹³ Whereas, them who are without, God, judgeth? Remove ye the wicked man from among, yourselves.

³⁹ So Pharaoh said unto Joseph, After God hath made known unto thee all this, there is no one discreet and wise like thee. ⁴⁰ Thou, shalt be over my house, and, on thy mouth, shall all my people kiss,––only as to the throne, will I be greater than thou. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,––See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. ⁴² So Pharaoh took his ring from off his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand,––and clothed him in garments of fine linen, and put the chain of gold upon his neck; ⁴³ and made him ride in the second chariot which belonged to him, and they cried out before him, Bow the knee! thus setting him over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I, am Pharaoh, Without thee, therefore, shall no man raise his hand or his foot, in all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath–paneah, and gave him Asenath, daughter of Poti–phera priest of On, to wife,––and Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.
⁴⁶ Now, Joseph, was thirty years old, when he took his station, before Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Joseph went forth from before Pharaoh, and passed along through all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And the land produced, in the seven years of plenty, by handfuls. ⁴⁸ And he gathered up all the food of the seven years in which there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and laid up food in cities––the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, laid he up within it. ⁴⁹ Thus did Joseph heap up corn like the sand of the sea, making it exceeding abundant,––until one hath left off reckoning, because it cannot be reckoned. ⁵⁰ Now, to Joseph, were born, two sons, ere yet came in the year of famine,––whom Asenath, daughter of Poti–phera priest of On, bare to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn, Manasseh,––For God hath made me forget all my trouble, and all the house of my father. ⁵² And, the name of the second, called he, Ephraim,––For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my humiliation. ⁵³ Then came to an end the seven years of the plenty,––which was in the land of Egypt; ⁵⁴ and the seven years of famine began to come in, according as Joseph had said,––and it came to pass that there was a famine in all the lands, but, in all the land of Egypt, there was bread. ⁵⁵ Yet was famine felt in all the land of Egypt, and the people made outcry unto Pharaoh, for bread,––and Pharaoh said to all Egypt,––Go ye unto Joseph, that which he saith to you, shall ye do. ⁵⁶ Now, the famine, was over all the face of the land,––so Joseph opened all [places] wherein it was, and sold corn to the Egyptians, and the famine laid fast hold of the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ All the earth also, came in to Egypt to buy corn, unto Joseph,––because the famine had laid fast hold on all the earth.

⁶ this Ezra, came up out of Babylon, he, being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh God of Israel had given,––and the king gave him, according to the hand of Yahweh his God upon him, all his request. ⁷ So then there came up some of the sons of Israel, and some of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem,––in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. ⁸ And he entered Jerusalem, in the fifth month,––the same, was the seventh year of the king. ⁹ For, on the first of the first month, was a beginning made of coming up from Babylon,––and, on the first of the fifth month, entered he into Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. ¹⁰ For, Ezra, had settled his heart, to study the law of Yahweh, and to do [it], ––and to teach in Israel, statute and regulation.
¹¹ Now, this, is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave, to Ezra the priest the scribe,––the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes, for Israel:––

⁴ Then the king said to me, Concerning what, is it, thou, wouldst make request? So I prayed unto the God of the heavens, ⁵ and then said unto the king, If, unto the king, it seemeth good, and if thy servant might find favour before thee, That thou wouldst send me unto Judah, unto the city of the sepulchres of my fathers, that I might build it. ⁶ And the king said unto me, the queen, also sitting beside him, For how long would be thy journey? and when wouldst thou return? So it seemed good before the king to send me, and I set him a time.

³ For, Mordecai the Jew, was next unto King Ahasuerus, and became great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brethren,––seeking happiness for his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

² Most beautiful thou art, beyond the sons of men, Graciousness hath been poured forth by thy lips, For this cause, hath God blessed thee, to times age–abiding.

⁶ Mine eyes, shall be upon the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me,––he that walketh in a blameless way, he, shall attend me.

³⁵ The good–pleasure of a king, is due to a servant who is discreet, but, his indignation, shall be against him that bringeth shame.

¹³ The delight of kings, are lips of righteousness,––and, the words of uprightness, he loveth.

⁴⁶ Then, King Nebuchadnezzar, fell upon his face, and, unto Daniel, paid adoration; and, a present and sweet odours, gave he word to pour out unto him. ⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel, and said––Of a truth, your God, is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a Revealer of secrets,––seeing thou wast able to reveal this secret. ⁴⁸ Then, the king, exalted, Daniel, and, many large presents, gave he unto him, and set him to be ruler over all the province of Babylon,––and chief of the nobles, over all the wise men of Babylon. ⁴⁹ And, Daniel, desired of the king, and he appointed––over the business of the province of Babylon––Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego,––but, Daniel himself, was in the gate of the king.

³⁰ Then, the king, advanced Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, in the province of Babylon.

²⁰ and, when he drew near to the den, unto Daniel, with distressed voice, made he outcry,––the king spake and said unto Daniel, O Daniel! servant of the Living God! Thy God, whom thou art serving continually, hath he been able to deliver thee from the lions? ²¹ Then, Daniel, with the king, spake,––O king! for ages, live! ²² My God, hath sent his messenger, and hath shut the mouth of the lions, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as, before him, rectitude was found in me, moreover also, before thee, O king, no, crime, had I committed. ²³ Then, the king, was exceedingly glad concerning him, and gave word to take up, Daniel, out of the den. So Daniel, was taken up, out of the den, and, no manner of hurt, was found in him, for that he had trusted in his God.

⁸ Happy, the pure, in heart; for, they, shall, see God:

²² And, all, were bearing witness to him, and marveling at the words of favour which were proceeding out of his mouth; and they were saying––Is not, this, the, son of Joseph?

⁹ For, as touching Yahweh, [seeing that], his eyes, are ever running to and fro throughout all the earth, to shew himself strong with them who are perfect toward himself, thou hast made thyself foolish over this,––for, from henceforth, there shall be with thee––wars.

¹² Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success; ¹³ Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

¹⁹ That they may revere––From the West, the name of Yahweh, And from the Rising of the Sun, his glory. For he will come in like a rushing stream, The breath of Yahweh, driving it on; ²⁰ So shall come in, for Zion, a Redeemer, Even for such as are turning from transgression in Jacob,––Declareth Yahweh. ²¹ And, as for me, this, shall be my covenant with them, Saith Yahweh: My spirit that is upon thee, And my words which I have put in thy mouth,––Shall not be taken out of thy mouth––Nor out of the mouth of thy seed, Nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, Saith Yahweh, From henceforth even unto times age–abiding.

¹⁶ And, Simon Peter, answering, said––Thou, art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. ¹⁷ And Jesus, answering, said to him––Happy, art thou, Simon Bar–yona,––because, flesh and blood, revealed it not unto thee, but my Father who is in the heavens. ¹⁸ And, I also, unto thee, say––Thou, art Peter,––and, upon this rock, will I build my assembly, and, the gates of hades, shall not prevail against it.

³⁹ But, if it is, of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them: lest once, even fighters against God, ye be found.

⁹ But, a certain man named Simon, was already in the city, practising magical arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria,––saying that himself was someone great: ¹⁰ Unto whom all were giving heed, from small even to great, saying––This, is the Power of God, which is called Great. ¹¹ And they were giving heed to him, because that, for a considerable time, with his magical arts, he had astonished them. ¹² But, when they believed Philip telling the good news concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they proceeded to be immersed, both men and women.

²³ And, instantly, there smote him, a messenger of the Lord, because he gave not the glory unto God; and, becoming worm–eaten, he expired. ²⁴ And, the word of the Lord, went on growing and multiplying.

⁸ But Elymas the magician,––for so, when translated, is his name,––withstood them; seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ But Saul, who is also Paul, filled with Holy Spirit, looking steadfastly at him, ¹⁰ Said––O full of all guile, and all recklessness! Son of an adversary! Enemy of all righteousness!––Wilt thou not cease to pervert the straight ways of the Lord? ¹¹ Now, therefore, lo! the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun, until a fitting time. And, instantly, there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and, going about, he was seeking such as might lead him by the hand. ¹² Then, the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

⁸ And, then, shall be revealed the lawless one,––whom, the Lord [Jesus], will slay with the Spirit of his mouth, and paralyse with the forthshining of his Presence:––

⁸ Moreover, like as, Jannes and Jambres, withstood Moses, so, these men also, withstand the truth,––men utterly corrupted in their mind, disapproved concerning their faith; ⁹ But they shall not force their way further, for, their folly, shall be, fully evident, unto all,––as also, that of those men, became.

³ And I will give unto my two witnesses, that they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred and sixty days, arrayed in sackcloth. ⁴ These, are the two olive–trees, and the two lamps, which, before the Lord of the earth, do stand. ⁵ And, if any one, upon them, chooseth to inflict injury, fire, cometh forth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies; and, if anyone shall choose, upon them, to inflict injury, thus, must he be slain. ⁶ These, have authority to shut heaven, in order that, no rain, be moistening in the days of their prophesying; and, authority, have they, over the waters, to be turning them into blood, and to smite the land, with any manner of plague, as often as they will. ⁷ And, as soon as they have completed their witnessing, the wild–beast that is to come up out of the abyss, will make war with them, and overcome them, and slay them. ⁸ And their dead bodies [lie] upon the broadway of the great city, the which is called, spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where, their Lord also was crucified. ⁹ And [some] of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations, see, their dead bodies three days and a half, and, their dead bodies, do they not suffer to be put into a tomb. ¹⁰ And, they who are dwelling upon the earth, rejoice over them, and make merry, and, gifts, will they send one to another,––because, these two prophets, tormented them that were dwelling upon the earth. ¹¹ And, after [the] three days and a half, a spirit of life from God, entered within them, and they stood upon their feet; and, great fear, fell upon them who were beholding them.

¹⁴ And there were given unto the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, into her place,––where she is nourished, a season and seasons and half a season, from the face of the serpent. ¹⁵ And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. ¹⁶ And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. ¹⁷ And the dragon was angered against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed––with them who were keeping the commandments of God, and holding the witness of Jesus; ––and he stood upon the sand of the sea.

³² So they sent forth a rumour of the land which they had spied out, among the sons of Israel, saying,––As touching the land through which we passed, to spy it out, it is, land that eateth up them who dwell therein, And, all the people that we saw in the midst thereof, were men of great stature. ³³ And, there, saw we the giants, sons of Anak, [descended] of the giants,––And we were, in our own eyes, as grasshoppers, And, so, were we in their eyes.

¹³ Saith the sluggard, A roaring lion in the road! A tearing lion in the midst of the broadways.
¹⁴ The door, turneth on its hinges, and, the sluggard, upon his bed.
¹⁵ The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
¹⁶ Wiser is the sluggard in his own eyes, than, seven persons, who can answer with judgment.

¹⁹ When Yahweh saw, he derided,––Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation.

²⁰ And she said––The Philistines, are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and said––I will go out now, as time after time, and shake myself free: he, not knowing, that, Yahweh, had departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes,––and took him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze, and it came to pass that he used to grind in the prison.

²⁶ Was it not, over these things, that Solomon king of Israel sinned––though, among many nations, there was no king such as he, and he was, beloved by his God, and so God gave him to be king over all Israel,––even him, did foreign women, cause to sin.

¹² So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart,[––] They might walk in their own counsels!

¹⁶ To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth; ¹⁷ Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten; ¹⁸ For she hath appointed, unto death, her house, and unto the shades, her courses; ¹⁹ None who go in unto her, come back, neither attain they unto the paths of life:

³ For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth; ⁴ But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two–edged sword! ⁵ Her feet, are going down to death,––on hades, will her steps take firm hold. ⁶ Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not [whither]. ⁷ Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house: ⁹ Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel: ¹⁰ Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien. ¹¹ So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition; ¹² And thou shalt say––How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained; ¹³ Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear: ¹⁴ Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.
¹⁵ Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters: ¹⁷ Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy well–spring be blessed,––and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth:–– ¹⁹ A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore. ²⁰ Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown? ²¹ For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man,––and, all his tracks, doth he consider: ²² His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized. ²³ He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.

²⁴ To keep thee from the wicked woman, from the flattery of the tongue of her that is a stranger. ²⁵ Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes; ²⁶ Because, for the sake of an impure woman, [a man may be brought] even to a cake of bread,––and, a man’s wife, for a precious soul, may hunt! ²⁷ Can a man snatch up fire in his bosom, and, his clothes, not be burned? ²⁸ Or can a man walk upon hot coals, and, his feet, not be burned? ²⁹ So, he that goeth in unto his neighbour’s wife, no man shall be guiltless who toucheth her!

⁵ That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.
⁶ For, in the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked out; ⁷ And saw among the simple ones, discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense; ⁸ Passing through the street, near her corner, and, on the way to her house, he sauntered along; ⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the midst of the night, and the gloom; ¹⁰ And lo! a woman, came to meet him, attired as one unchaste, of a wily heart. ¹¹ Boisterous, is she, and rebellious, In her house, abide not her feet; ¹² Now outside, now in the broadways, and, near every corner, she lieth in wait: ¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, and, embolding her face, she said to him: ¹⁴ Peace–offerings, are by me, today, have I paid my vows; ¹⁵ For this cause, came I forth to meet thee, to seek diligently thy face, and I have found thee: ¹⁶ Coverlets, have I spread on my couch of pleasure, dark–hued stuffs, of the yarn of Egypt; ¹⁷ I have sprinkled my bed, with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon: ¹⁸ Come! let us take our fill of endearments, until morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses; ¹⁹ For the husband is not in his house, he hath gone on a journey afar; ²⁰ A bag of silver, hath he taken in his hand, On the day of the full moon, will he enter his house. ²¹ She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness,––with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him: ²² Going after her instantly, as an ox, to the slaughter, he entereth, and, as in fetters, unto the correction of a fool. ²³ Until an arrow cleaveth his liver, as a bird hasteth into a snare, and knoweth not, that, for his life, it is!
²⁴ Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend, to the sayings of my mouth; ²⁵ Let not thy heart, turn aside to her ways, Do not go astray, in her paths. ²⁶ For, many, wounded, hath she caused to fall,––yea strong men, slain wholly by her: ²⁷ Ways to hades, are in her house, descending into the chambers of death.

²⁷ For, a deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown;

²⁶ I, could indeed find, to be, more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is, snares and nets, and her hands, bonds,––whoso is pleasing before God, shall escape from her, but, he that sinneth, shall be captured by her.

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!

⁵ Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.

²⁴ He that withholdeth his rod, hateth his son,––but, he that loveth him, carefully correcteth him.

¹⁸ Correct thy son, because there is hope, yet, not so as to slay him, let thy passion be excited.

¹³ Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest him with the rod, he shall not die: ¹⁴ Thou, with the rod, shalt smite him, and, his soul from hades, shalt thou deliver.

¹⁵ A rod with rebuke, giveth wisdom, but, a youth unrestrained, bringeth shame to his mother.

¹⁷ Correct thy son, that he may give thee rest, that he may give delight to thy soul.

⁶ That which hath been born of the flesh, is, flesh, and, that which hath been born of the spirit, is, spirit.

³ Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger––even as the rest,––

¹⁰ For, they, indeed, for a few days, according to that which seemed good to them, were administering discipline; but, he, unto that which is profitable, with view to our partaking of his holiness: ¹¹ But, no discipline, for the present, indeed, seemeth to be of joy, but of sorrow: afterwards, however––to them who thereby have been trained, it yieldeth peaceful fruit, of righteousness.

¹⁹ For he hath oppressed––hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild. ²⁰ Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind,––With his dearest thing, shall he not get away: ²¹ Nothing escaped his devouring greed,––For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue: ²² When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.
²³ It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain [it] upon him for his punishment. ²⁴ He shall flee from the armour of iron,––There shall pierce him, a bow of bronze! ²⁵ He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back,––yea the flashing arrow–head, out of his gall, There shall march on him––terrors: ²⁶ Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures,––There shall consume, a fire, not blown up,––it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent: ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him: ²⁸ The increase of his house shall vanish, melting away in the day of his anger. ²⁹ This, is the portion of the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One.

⁵ Because of violence done to the poor, because of the crying of the needy, Now, will I arise! O may Yahweh say,––I will place [him] in safety––let him puff at him!

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

³ A poor man, who oppresseth the helpless, [is like] a rain beating down, leaving no food.

²² A man, hasting to be rich, hath an evil eye, and knoweth not when want may overtake him.

² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance. ³ Therefore,––Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! devising, against this family, a calamity,––from which ye shall not remove your neck, neither shall ye walk loftily, for, a time of calamity, shall it be.

⁹ Thus, spake Yahweh of hosts, saying,––With true justice, give ye judgment, and, lovingkindness and compassions, observe ye, one with another; ¹⁰ And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress,––and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts. ¹¹ Howbeit they refused to give heed, but put forth a rebellious shoulder,––and, their ears, made they hard of hearing, that they might not hear; ¹² and, their heart, turned they into adamant, that they might not hear the law, nor the words which Yahweh of hosts sent by his spirit, through the former prophets,––and so there came great wrath from Yahweh of hosts. ¹³ Therefore came it to pass that––just as he cried out and they hearkened not, so, used they to cry out, and I used not to hearken, saith Yahweh of hosts; ¹⁴ But I whirled them over all the nations whom they had not known, and, the land, was made desolate after them, that none passed through and returned,––Yea they made of a delightful land––a desolation.

³³ [For], if ye even do good unto them that do good unto you, what sort of thanks are there for you? Even sinners, the same, are doing. ³⁴ And, if ye lend to them from whom ye are hoping to receive, what sort of thanks are there for you? Even sinners, unto sinners, do lend, that they may receive back, as much. ³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for, nothing, back; and your reward shall be, great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High,––for, he, is, gracious, unto the ungrateful and wicked.

¹² Moreover he went on to say, unto him also who had invited him,––Whensoever thou mayest be making a dinner or a supper, do not call thy friends, or thy brothers, or thy kinsfolk, or rich neighbours,––lest once, they also, invite thee in return, and it become a recompense unto thee. ¹³ But, whensoever, an entertainment, thou mayest be making, invite the destitute, the tried, the lame, the blind; ¹⁴ and, happy, shalt thou be, that they have not wherewith to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed unto thee, in the resurrection of the righteous.

²⁴ And, he, calling out, said––Father Abraham! have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue,––because I am in anguish in this flame.

¹³ For, the judgment, [will be] without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.

¹ Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you: ² Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth–eaten,–– ³ Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity:–– ⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered: ⁵ Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter;

¹² How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom.

³ For receiving the correction of prudence, righteousness and justice, and equity;

² So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding; ³ Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice; ⁴ If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her, ⁵ Then, shalt thou understand the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of God, shalt thou find.

¹ My son, mine instruction, do not thou forget, and, my commandment, let thy heart observe;

⁴ So he taught me, and said to me––Let thy heart, lay hold of my words, Keep my commandments and live! ⁵ Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, Do not forget, neither decline thou from the sayings of my mouth. ⁶ Do not forsake her, and she will guard thee,––love her and she will keep thee. ⁷ The principal thing, is wisdom, acquire thou wisdom, With all thine acquisition, acquire thou understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she will set thee on high, she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her:

¹ My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear: ² That thou mayest preserve discretion,––and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.

³³ Hear ye correction, and be wise, and do not neglect. ³⁴ How happy the man that doth hearken to me,––keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;

¹² Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.

²⁵ Resolved, I, in my heart, to know and search out, and to seek wisdom, and a conclusion,––and to know lawlessness [to be] stupidity, and folly to be madness.

⁹ All this, had I seen, and tried to apply my heart to every work which was done under the sun,––at such time as one man had power over another man, to his hurt.

¹⁶ When I gave my heart, to know wisdom, and to consider the business that was done upon the earth, then surely, by day and by night, there was one who suffered not his eyes, to sleep.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live,––That I may solemnise for you a covenant age–abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well–assured.

⁵ While yet he was speaking, lo! a brightly shining cloud, overshadowed them, and lo! a voice, out of the cloud, saying––This, is, my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight,––Be hearkening to him.

¹⁸ For I am full of discourse, The spirit in my bosom, presseth me on. ¹⁹ Lo! my bosom, is like wine not opened, Like new wineskins, it will burst.

¹⁰ More desirable, than gold, yea than much fine gold, Sweeter, also than honey, or than droppings from the comb.

¹³ With my lips, have I recounted All the regulations of thy mouth.

¹⁰³ How smooth to my palate is thy speech, More than honey, to my mouth.

¹¹¹ As an inheritance have I taken thy testimonies unto times age–abiding, for, the joy of my heart, they are.

¹⁶² Joyful am I over thy word, Like the finder of spoil in abundance.

¹⁷¹ My lips, shall pour out, praise, When thou shalt teach me thy statutes.

¹⁰ When wisdom entereth thy heart, and, knowledge, to thy soul, is sweet,

¹⁷ Her ways, are ways of pleasantness, and, all her paths, are peace;

⁶ Hear, for, princely things, will I speak, and the opening of my lips shall be of equity;

¹³ In the lips of the intelligent, is found wisdom, but, a rod, is for the back of him that lacketh sense.

²¹ The lips of the righteous, feed multitudes, but, the foolish, for lack of sense, shall die.

⁷ The lips of the wise, scatter abroad knowledge, but, the heart of dullards, is not right.

²¹ The wise in heart, shall be called intelligent, and, sweetness of lips, increaseth persuasiveness.

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, because it is good,––and droppings from the comb [because they are] sweet to thy palate: ¹⁴ Thus, take knowledge of wisdom, for thine own soul; If thou find it, then there is a future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.

¹¹ Golden fruit in figured silver baskets, is a word spoken on fitting occasion.

¹⁶ Thy words, were found, and I did eat them, Then became thy words unto me, the joy and gladness of my heart,––For, thy Name, hath been called, upon me, O Yahweh, God of hosts!

⁷ For, the lips of a priest, should keep knowledge, and, a deliverance, should men seek at his mouth,–– for, the messenger of Yahweh of hosts, he is.

³⁸ He that believeth on me––just as said the Scripture,––River, from within him, shall flow, of living water.

¹⁵ Through him, let us be offering up a sacrifice of praise, continually, unto God; that is, a fruit of lips confessing unto his name.

⁸ Trust ye in him all ye assembly of the people, Pour out, before him, your heart, God, is a refuge for us. [Selah.]

⁵ Trust thou in Yahweh, with all thy heart, and, unto thine own understanding, do not lean:

² Lo, GOD, is my salvation! I will trust, and not dread,––For, my might and melody, is Yah, Yahweh, And he hath become mine, by salvation.

⁴ Trust ye in Yahweh, unto futurity,––For, in Yah, Yahweh, is a rock of ages.

⁷ Blessed, is the man, Who trusteth in Yahweh, To whom Yahweh is his ground of confidence;

²¹ who, through him, are faithful towards God,––Who raised him from among the dead, and glory to him gave, So that your faith and hope are directed towards God:

⁶ The words of Yahweh, are words, that are pure, silver refined in a crucible of earth, purified seven times!

¹² I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law,––Like something alien, have they been accounted.

¹⁵ And that, from a babe, those sacred letters, thou hast known which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus: ¹⁶ Every scripture, [is] God–breathed, and profitable––unto teaching, unto conviction, unto correction, unto the discipline that is in righteousness,–– ¹⁷ In order that, ready, may be the man, of God, unto every good work, being well–prepared.

¹⁹ And we have, more firm, the prophetic word; ––whereunto ye are doing, well, to take heed,––as unto a lamp shining in a dusky place,––until, day, shall dawn, and, a day–star, shall arise in your hearts:–– ²⁰ Of this, first, taking note––that, no prophecy of scripture, becometh, self–solving; ²¹ For not, by will of man, was prophecy brought in, at any time, but, as, by Holy Spirit, they were borne along, spake, men, from God.

³ it seemed good, even to me, having closely traced from the outset all things accurately, to write unto thee, in order, most excellent Theophilus: ⁴ that, as touching the matters which thou hadst been taught by word of mouth, thou mightest obtain full knowledge, of the certainty.

³¹ but, these, are written, that ye may believe that, Jesus, is, the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye may have life in his name.

¹⁵ But, the Lord Christ, hallow ye in your hearts, ready always for a defence, unto every one that is asking you a reason concerning, the hope within you,––nevertheless, with meekness and reverence:

¹³ These things, have I written unto you––in order that ye may know that ye have, Life Age–abiding––unto you who believe on the name of the Son of God.

⁶ Thou shalt not pervert the vindication of thy needy one, in his quarrel.

¹² Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper; ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy; ¹⁴ Righteousness, I put on, and it clothed me, Like a robe and turban, was my, justice; ¹⁵ Eyes, became I to the, blind, and, feet to the lame, was, I! ¹⁶ A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;

¹⁶ If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;

²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,

¹⁰ Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter; ¹¹ For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.

²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice.

¹⁰ And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress,––and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts.

⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

¹² Let Yahweh do justice betwixt me and thee, and let Yahweh avenge me of thee,––but, mine own hand, shall not be upon thee.

¹⁵ Therefore shall, Yahweh, become, judge, and do justice betwixt me and thee,––that he may see, and plead my cause, and justly deliver me out of thy hand.

³⁹ And, when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said––Blessed, be Yahweh, who hath maintained the plea of my reproach, at the hand of Nabal, and hath restrained, his servant, from wrong, yea, the wrong of Nabal, hath Yahweh turned back on his own head. Then sent David, and spake with Abigail, to take her to himself wife.

¹ [David’s.]
Contend, O Yahweh, with them who contend with me, Make war upon them who make war upon me.

¹⁰ All my bones, shall say––O Yahweh, who is like unto thee? Rescuing the oppressed from one stronger than he, Yea the oppressed and the needy, from their spoiler.

¹ Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause, Against a nation, without lovingkindness, From the man of deceit and perversity, wilt thou deliver me?

⁵ The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.

¹² I know that Yahweh will execute, the right of the oppressed one, the vindication of the needy.

¹¹ For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.

¹ Alas! thou plunderer, when, thou, hadst not been plundered, And thou traitor, when they had not betrayed thee: When thou hast ceased plundering, thou shalt be plundered, When thou hast left off betraying, they shall betray thee.

³⁴ Their Redeemer, can hold fast, Yahweh of hosts, is his name, He will, thoroughly plead, their plea,––That he may quiet the earth, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

³⁶ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! pleading thy cause, So then I will execute the avenging of thee; And will dry up her sea, And make dry her spring:

⁹ The indignation of Yahweh, will I bear, for I have sinned against him,––until he take up my controversy, then will he do me justice, he will bring me forth to the light, I shall behold his righteousness.

⁸ Because, thou, hast plundered many nations, all the residue of the peoples, shall plunder thee,––for shedding Human blood, and doing violence to the earth, to the city, and to all who dwell therein.

²² A man given to anger, stirreth up strife, and, he that exceedeth in wrath, aboundeth in transgression.

¹⁴ Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ And what agreement hath a shrine of God with idols? For, we, are [the] shrine of a God, that liveth:––even as God hath said––will dwell in them, and walk, and will be their God, and, they, shall be my people. ¹⁷ Wherefore come ye forth out of their midst, and be separated,––saith [the] Lord,––and, one impure, do not touch; and, I, will give you welcome,

³⁵ But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;

²⁰ He that walketh with the wise, becometh wise, but, the friend of dullards, becometh foolish.

³³ Be not deceiving yourselves,––evil communications corrupt gentle manners:––

¹ My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbour,––have struck for a stranger thy hands, ² Thou hast been snared by the sayings of thy mouth,––thou hast been caught by the sayings of thy mouth. ³ Do this then, my son, and deliver thyself, When thou hast come into the hand of thy neighbour, Go, haste thee, and urge thy neighbour; ⁴ Do not give sleep to thine eyes, or slumber to thine eyelashes; ⁵ Deliver thyself, as a gazelle out of the hand, and as a bird, out of the hand of the fowler.

¹⁵ He that becometh surety for a stranger, goeth to utter ruin, but, he that hateth striking hands, is secure.

¹⁸ A man lacking sense, is one who striketh hands, giving security, before his neighbour.

¹³ Take a man’s garment when he hath become pledge for a stranger, then, for a female unknown, accept him as surety.

²⁶ If thou, do take in pledge, the mantle of thy neighbour, by the going in of the sun, shalt thou restore it to him; ²⁷ for, that, is his only covering, that, is his mantle, for his skin,––wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he maketh outcry unto me, then will I hear, because, gracious, I am.

¹⁶ Take his garment who is pledge for a stranger,––then, for a woman unknown, accept him as surety.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not move back the boundary of thy neighbour, by which they set bounds at first,––in thine inheritance which thou shall receive, in the land which Yahweh thy God is giving thee to possess.

¹⁷ Cursed, be he that moveth back the boundary of his neighbour. And all the people shall say––Amen.

² Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;

¹⁰ Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;

⁴⁶ Now, Joseph, was thirty years old, when he took his station, before Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Joseph went forth from before Pharaoh, and passed along through all the land of Egypt.

⁸ How happy, are thy wives, how happy, are these thy servants,––who do stand before thee continually, who hear thy wisdom!

²⁸ Now, the man Jeroboam, being an able Solomon observed his servant, that he man, was, one to execute a work, so he gave him oversight of all the charge of the house of Joseph.

⁴ He becometh poor, who dealeth with a slack hand, but, the hand of the diligent, maketh rich.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent, shall bear rule, but, the indolent, shall come under tribute.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do,––for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.

²¹ His lord said unto him––Well–done! good and faithful servant,––Over a few things wast thou faithful, over many things, will I appoint thee: Enter into the joy of thy lord.

²³ His lord said unto him––Well–done! good and faithful servant,––Over a few things, wast thou faithful, over many things, will I appoint thee: Enter into the joy of thy lord.

¹¹ In business, not slothful, in spirit, fervent, to the Lord, doing service,

² Proclaim the word, take thy position––in season, out of season,––convince, rebuke, encourage,––with all long–suffering and teaching.