Proverbs 14 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Wise women have built houses; but the foolish hath pulled them down with her hands. ² He who walketh uprightly, feareth the Lord; but he who is perverse in his ways, shall be dishonoured. ³ From the mouth of fools there is a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise preserve them. ⁴ Where there are no cattle the stalls are clean; but where there is much provender, the ox's strength is manifest. ⁵ A faithful witness doth not lie; but a false witness kindleth lies. ⁶ Thou mayest seek wisdom among the wicked, but shalt not find it; but knowledge is easily found among the prudent. ⁷ All things are contrary to a foolish man: but wise lips are the arms of knowledge. ⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will give them a knowledge of their ways; but the folly of fools is in error. ⁹ The houses of transgressors need purifying; but the houses of the righteous are acceptable. ¹⁰ The heart of a man who hath sensibility; the soul of him who hath a feeling for pain, when he is made glad, mingleth not with pride. ¹¹ The houses of the wicked shall vanish; but the tents of the upright shall stand. ¹² There is a way which seemeth right to a man; but the end of it is at the bottom of Hades. ¹³ Grief mixeth not with pleasures; but extreme joy tendeth to sorrow. ¹⁴ A bold hearted man will be satisfied with his own ways; but a good man, with his intentions. ¹⁵ A man without guile, believeth every thing: but a prudent man cometh for a change of mind. ¹⁶ A wise man, when terrified, declineth from evil: but the fool, confident in himself, mixeth with transgressors. ¹⁷ A passionate man acteth without counsel; but a prudent man beareth many things. ¹⁸ Fools partake of wickedness; but the prudent will lay hold of knowledge. ¹⁹ Let the bad fall before the good; and the wicked attend at the gates of the righteous! ²⁰ Friends will hate poor friends; but the friends of the rich are many. ²¹ He who despiseth the poor, sinneth: but he who compassionateth the poor is blessed. ²² They who are led astray devise mischief; but the good devise mercy and truth. The contrivers of mischief know neither mercy nor truth; but acts of kindness and truth are with them, who contrive good. ²³ With all who are careful there is abundance; but he who is delicate and taketh no trouble shall be in want. ²⁴ A prudent man is a crown to the wise; but the conversation of fools is evil. ²⁵ A true witness will deliver a soul from evils; but a deceitful witness kindleth lies. ²⁶ In the fear of the Lord a man hath hope of strength; and to his children he leaveth a support. ²⁷ The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causeth to decline from the snare of death. ²⁸ In the multitude of a nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of a people is the destruction of a prince. ²⁹ A man slow to wrath, is of great understanding; but a passionate man is egregiously foolish. ³⁰ A meek minded man is a physician of the heart; but a heart of sensibility is a corroder of the bones. ³¹ He who oppresseth the poor, provoketh his maker; but he who honoureth him, compassionateth the distressed. ³² A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness; but in his sanctity the righteous is secure. ³³ In the good heart of a man there is wisdom; but in the heart of fools it is not discernable. ³⁴ Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sins diminish tribes. ³⁵ A wise minister is acceptable to a king: but by his own good conduct he removeth disgrace.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate said, We are witnesses. Then the elders said, The Lord make this thy wife who is coming to thy house, like Rachel and like Leia, who both built up the house of Israel, and laid the foundation of power in Ephratha, that there may be a name in Bethlehem:

³¹ It did not suffice him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nabat; but he took to wife Jezabel, a daughter of Jethebaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

²⁴ Him of Achab who dieth in the city, the dogs shall devour, and him who dieth in the fields, the birds of the air shall devour. ²⁵ But though Achab had acted foolishly in selling himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, as Jezabel his wife incited him,

¹ Now when Gotholia the mother of Ochozias saw that her son was dead, she destroyed all the royal seed.

¹³ A woman who is foolish and bold needeth a curb; she hath no sense of shame. ¹⁴ She sat at the doors of her house; on a seat open to view in the streets; ¹⁵ calling to passengers who were going right on their ways,

¹³ A foolish son is a shame to a father. vows for the hire of a harlot are not pure.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner in the open air; than in apartments plaistered with injustice; and in a house which is not clean.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome, clamorous and passionate wife.

³ By wisdom a house is built; and by understanding it is established. ⁴ By knowledge chambers are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous woman? Such a one is indeed more valuable than precious stones. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusteth in her: such a one hath no need of spoils: ¹² for she laboureth for her husband's good all her life long. ¹³ Having spun wool and flax she made a useful work with her hands. ¹⁴ She was like a merchant vessel which bringeth riches from afar: ¹⁵ She arose by night and gave food to her household and work to her maids. ¹⁶ Having viewed a field she bought it, and with the fruits of her hands planted the purchase. ¹⁷ Having girded herself tight about the waist, she strengthened her arms for work. ¹⁸ And finding that it was good to work, her lamp is not extinguished the whole night. ¹⁹ Her elbows she extendeth over the spindle; and her hands she keepeth at the distaff. ²⁰ But she opened her hand to the needy; and stretched out her handful to the distressed. ²¹ Her husband when long abroad is not concerned for those at home: for all with her are well clothed. ²² She made for her husband double garments; and for herself robes of cotton and purple. ²³ And her husband is distinguished in the gates; when he sitteth in council with the elders of the land. ²⁴ She made sindons and sold girdles to the Chananites. She opened her mouth sparingly and with propriety; and had her tongue in due subjection. ²⁵ She clothed herself with majesty and excellence, and enjoyed delights in her latter days. ²⁶ The gates of her house were kept close shut; and she eateth not the bread of idleness. ²⁷ She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and maxims of prudence. ²⁸ Her bounty caused her children to honour her; for they were rich, and her husband praised her. ²⁹ Many daughters have possessed wealth, many have acted virtuously: but thou hast surpassed: thou hast excelled all. ³⁰ False are allurements, and vain the beauty of a wife. For a woman of understanding is blessed. Let her therefore praise the fear of the Lord. ³¹ Give her of the fruits of her hands; and let her husband be praised in the gates.

⁶ Thereupon Solomon said, Thou hast shewn great kindness to thy servant David my father. As he walked before thee in truth and righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee, thou therefore hast kept for him this great kindness to set his son on his throne as at this day.

¹ There was a man in the country of Ausitis whose name was Job. He was a man of truth and integrity, just, pious, and who abstained from every thing that was evil.

⁴ For a just man and one irreprehensible hath been made a mocking stock.

²⁸ he said to man, "Behold the worshipping of God is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding."

²¹ To me the innocent and the upright cleaved; because I waited for thee, O Lord.

¹ An Alleluia. Happy the man who feareth the Lord! in his commandments he will greatly delight.

³ Have mercy on us, Lord; have mercy on us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is filled exceedingly; we are the scoff of the prosperous and the contempt of the haughty.

¹⁵ whose ways are crooked, and whose paths turn aside to lead thee far from the straight road

¹² A man void of wisdom derideth fellow citizens: but a prudent man enjoyeth quiet.

¹⁷ The paths of life turn aside from evils: and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He who receiveth instruction shall enjoy good: and he who regardeth reproofs shall be wise. He who watcheth his own ways preserveth his soul: and he who loveth his life will be sparing of his mouth.

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⁶ Better is a poor man who walketh in truth than a rich liar.

¹³ As a conclusion of the discourse, hear thou the whole sum and substance: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this conclusion every man should draw,

⁵ that my covenant of life and peace was with him; and I gave it to him that I might be greatly feared and that he might be awed at my name. ⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth: and iniquity should not have been found in his lips. Walking uprightly with me in peace, he indeed turned many from iniquity.

¹⁶ He who hearkeneth to you, hearkeneth to me: and he who rejecteth you, rejecteth me; and he who rejecteth me, rejecteth him who sent me.

¹⁴ When the Pharisees who loved money heard all these things they treated him with scorn.

³¹ Now then the congregations throughout all Judea and Galilee, and Samaria, were enjoying peace. Being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord, and the consolation of the holy spirit, they were multiplied.

²² They said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and one who feareth God, and is approved by the testimony of the whole Jewish nation, hath been divinely warned by a holy angel to send for thee to his house and receive instruction from thee.

³⁵ but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to him.

⁴ Or dost thou contemn the riches of his gentleness and forbearance and long suffering, not considering that the gentleness of God is leading thee to a reformation? ⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

² For the men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, haughty, addicted to slander, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ void of natural affection, perfidious, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, destitute of love for goodness,

³ Boast not, nor speak haughtily, Let not arrogance proceed from your mouth. Because the Lord is a God of all knowledge; A God who prepareth his own designs;

²¹ He will hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou need'st not be afraid of impending ills.

³ May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips; and the tongue which speaketh swelling words;

¹⁸ Let those deceitful lips become speechless, which speak injustice against the righteous with pride and contempt.

¹ For the conclusion. On understanding. By David, when Dock the Idumean came and told Saul and said to him, David went to Abimelech's house. Why boastest thou in mischief, mighty man of iniquity? All the day long he devised injustice. ² Thy tongue is like a sharp razor: thou hast practised deceit.

⁴ and delivered my soul from the midst of lions. I laid me down to sleep, troubled as I was. As for the sons of men, their teeth are weapons and darts; and their tongue is a sharp sword.

⁶ The words of the wicked are deceitful: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

⁶ The lips of a fool lead him into trouble; and his mouth when bold provoketh death.

²⁴ He who is bold, selfwilled and boastful is called loimos [a pest;] and he who harboureth mischief is called a transgressor.

⁸ He who soweth iniquity shall reap evils; and compleat the punishment of his deeds. God blesseth a cheerful giver; and will supply the deficiency of his works.

²⁵ A faithless man judgeth rashly: but he who trusteth in the Lord will be careful.

²⁰ And concerning the ten horns, which were on its head, and that other, which sprouted up and shook off some of the first; and which had eyes and a mouth speaking great things and the appearance of which was greater than the rest,

⁹ That if thou wilt acknowledge with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart man believeth for righteousness, and with the mouth acknowledgment is made for salvation.

⁵ So also the tongue is a very small member, yet it boasteth great things. See what a great pile of wood a little fire kindleth to a flame! ⁶ Now, the tongue is a fire, the leader of iniquity; the tongue is set among the members, staining the whole body, and setting the wheel of nature in a blaze, when it is itself set in a blaze by hell.

¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error;

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will keep thee from the hour of trial which is coming soon on the whole world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

¹¹ and they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and have not spared to expose their life even to death.

⁵ And after that I looked and behold! the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. ⁶ And the seven angels having the seven plagues came out of the temple, clad in clean white linen and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.

²³ The righteous shall spend many years in wealth; but the unrighteous shall perish in a short time.

⁶ But as for me, I will give you gnashing of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. When you returned not to me, saith the Lord,

⁹ For in the law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn": Is God solicitous for oxen? ¹⁰ Or doth he not unquestionably say this for our sake? For us indeed it was written, because he who plougheth ought to plough in hope; and he who thresheth in hope ought to partake of his hope. ¹¹ If we have sown for you spiritual things is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

¹ Thou shalt not countenance an idle report, nor conspire with the unrighteous to be a false witness.

¹³ and there came in two wicked men and sat over against him and testified against him saying, Thou hast renounced God and the king. Upon which they led him out of the city, and stoned him with stones so that he died.

¹² And in like manner all the prophets prophesied, saying, Go up to Remmath Galaad, for the Lord will prosper the journey and deliver into thy hands the king of Syria. ¹³ So the messenger who went to call Michaias, spoke to him saying, Behold all the prophets with one mouth speak good things concerning the king, conform, I pray thee, thy words to the words of every of them, and speak good things. ¹⁴ To which Michaias replied, As the Lord liveth, whatever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

¹⁹ as a false witness he spreadeth lies, and soweth discord among brethren.

¹⁷ A righteous man declareth the truth as it appeareth to him: but a false witness is deceitful.

⁵ A righteous man hateth a false word; but the wicked is shamed and shall not have confidence.

²⁵ A true witness will deliver a soul from evils; but a deceitful witness kindleth lies.

⁵ A false witness shall not go unpunished; and he who accuseth unjustly shall not escape.

⁹ Let not a false witness go unpunished; and let him who kindleth mischief perish by it.

¹⁸ Open mine eyes, that I may discern the wonderous things of thy law.

⁹⁸ Thou hast given me a knowledge of thy law above mine enemies; because it is mine forever. ⁹⁹ I had more understanding than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my study. ¹⁰⁰ I understood more than elders: because I diligently sought thy commandments.

⁹ They are all plain to men of understanding: and right to them who find knowledge.

²⁴ The countenance of a wise man is intelligent; but the fool's eyes are on the ends of the earth.

² He who is void of understanding hath no use for wisdom; for he is rather led by folly.

¹² I have seen a man who thought himself wise: but there was more hope of a fool than of him.

²⁰ For he hath given a law for assistance; that they may not speak like such an oracle as this, which is not worth the giving of gifts for it.

⁹ Are the wise ashamed? They are indeed dismayed and taken. Because they rejected the law of the Lord; therefore be their wisdom what it may,

²² The eye is the lamp of the body. If therefore thine eye be sound thy whole body will be enlightened: ²³ but if thine eye be distempered, thy whole body will be dark. If then the light which is in thee be darkness, how great will the darkness be!

²⁵ At that time Jesus took occasion to say, I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth; that thou having hid these things from the wise and prudent, hast revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, O father, because it thus seemed good in thy sight. ²⁷ All things are delivered up to me by my father; and none but the father knoweth the son; nor doth any know the father, but only the son, and he to whom the son is pleased to reveal him.

¹¹ And he in reply said to them, To you it hath been granted to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens; but to them it hath not been granted. ¹² For to him who improveth, more shall be given and he shall abound: but from him who improveth not, even that which he hath shall be taken.

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened; ²² pretending to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image representing coruptible man, and birds, and four footed beasts, and reptiles; ²⁴ therefore God delivered them up, by the desires of their own hearts, to impurity, that by themselves their own bodies might be dishonoured. ²⁵ They changed the truth of God for a falsity, and worshipped and served the creature, and not the creator who is blessed forever, Amen: ²⁶ therefore God gave them up to infamous passions; for even their women perverted the instinct of nature; ²⁷ and in like manner the males also leaving the sex, were inflamed with desires towards each other, which they most shamefully indulged, men with men, and received in themselves the retribution which was justly due to their error. ²⁸ And as they did not search out God to have constantly a due sense of him, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things unseemly,

³¹ but Israel pursuing a law of righteousness did not come up to the law of righteousness. ³² Why?] Because they sought it not from belief; but as if attainable by works of law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone.

¹⁸ Whosoever you are, let no one deceive himself. If am one among you seemeth to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft."

² If then any one thinketh that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.

³ knowing this first, that in the last day scoffers will come, walking after their own desires, ⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." ⁵ For this they wilfully forget, that by the word of God there were heavens of old, and an earth consisting of water and in water,

⁶ Forsake folly, that you may reign forever: and seek prudence and build up understanding with knowledge."

²⁰ By walking with the wise thou wilt be wise; but he who walketh with fools will be known.

²⁷ A son who ceaseth to keep the instruction of a father; will meditate on evil sayings.

¹¹ But this is what I now write to you, that if any one named a brother, be a fornicator, or one who gratifieth immoderate desires, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, you are not to associate; no, nor eat with such a one.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them:

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and all who practise it have good understanding. Let the praise of him endure forever.

⁵ O that my ways may be directed, that I may keep thy rules of rectitude.

³⁴ Give me understanding that I may search thy law, and keep it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Lead me in the path of thy commandments; for I have delighted therein.

⁷³ JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: instruct me that I may learn thy commandments.

⁸ Cause me to hear thy kindness in the morning; for in thee I have placed my confidence. O Lord, let me know which way I shall go; for to thee I have lifted up my soul.

⁹ Then thou shalt understand judgment and justice; and direct all thy wheels right.

²⁰ I walk in the ways of righteousness; and am conversant in the paths of judgment:

¹⁸ A wicked man doth works of injustice: but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

²⁰ Raise thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and see them who are coming from the north! Where is the flock that was given thee; the flock of thy glory?

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²² with respect to your former course of life, to put off the old man, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,

¹⁷ therefore be not without understanding, but intelligent with regard to what is the will of the Lord.

⁹ For this cause, we indeed, from the day we heard of it do not cease praying for you, and requesting, in order that you may be filled, in respect to the acknowledgment of his will ¹⁰ with all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthy of the Lord, to all well pleasing. By every good work we bear fruit, and grow up for the acknowledgment of God;

¹³ and wicked men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁵ and that, from thy childhood, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise for salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for reformation, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly fitted for every good work.

¹³ Whoever among you is a man of wisdom and knowledge, let him, by a virtuous course of life, shew his works with the meekness of wisdom.

¹⁶ how abominable and filthy must man be; who drinketh iniquity in, like water!

⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water; ⁸ who hath neither sinned, nor been guilty of impiety; nor associated with the workers of iniquity to walk with impious men? ⁹ For thou shouldst not say, There shall be no visitation of man. He shall indeed have a visitation from the Lord.

²² "While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable to censures.

⁴ and thou shalt find favour. Be provident in regard to things good in the sight of the Lord and of men.

³⁵ For my ways are the ways of life; and volition is obtained from the Lord.

²³ A fool doth mischief in sport; but for man wisdom bringeth forth prudence.

² He who hath found favour with the Lord groweth better; but the transgressor shall be put to silence.

¹⁵ A good understanding giveth favour: and to know the law is a proof of good understanding; but the ways of impostors end in destruction.

¹⁸ As they who undertake to cure throw out words for men; and he who falleth in with the proposal will be first supplanted; ¹⁹ so all who ensnare their friends, when they are found out say, "I did it in sport."

²⁰ Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having committed the act and washed herself, saith, that she hath done nothing improper.

¹⁷ For the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in a holy spirit. ¹⁸ For he who serveth the Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

¹⁸ For they assured you that in the last time there would be scoffers, walking after their own wicked desires.

²¹ they said one to another, We indeed are to blame in respect to our brother. Because we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he intreated us and we would not hear him; for this cause therefore this affliction is come upon us.

¹⁰ And she being in bitterness of soul, prayed to the Lord, and wept sore.

²⁷ But when she came to Elisha on the mount, she took hold of his feet, whereupon Giezi went near to push her back. But Elisha said, Let her alone: for her soul is full of sorrow and the Lord hath hid the cause from me and hath not told me.

² that some person would weigh my passion: and poise in a balance against it, my calamities. ³ But these would outweigh the sand of the sea, though you seem to think my words too vehement: ⁴ for the arrows of the Lord are in my body, the fury of which drinketh up my blood: when I attempt to speak they pierce me.

¹¹ For this cause then I will not refrain my mouth: I will speak though I am in anguish: though distressed, I will unfold the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ For he suffereth me not to take breath, and hath filled me with bitterness.

¹ Weary of my life I would pour forth with groans my words before him: oppressed as I am I would speak in the bitterness of my soul,

¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them who fear him; and it is his covenant to display it for them.

¹³ When the heart is glad the countenance is cheerful; but when in sorrow, it is sad.

¹⁴ A wise servant appeaseth a man's anger; but a mean spirited man who can bear?

¹⁴ Then the blast lifted me up and bore me aloft and I went by the impulse of my own spirit, and the hand of the Lord upon me was strong,

³³ Then he taketh with him Peter, and James and John, and being seized with agonizing horror and distress of mind, ³⁴ he saith to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even to death. Stay here and watch.

²⁷ Now is my soul troubled. What then? Shall I say, Father save me from this hour? But for this cause I came to this hour.

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans. I am coming to you.

²³ Jesus in reply, said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him; and we will come to him and make an abode with him.

⁷ and the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds safe in Christ Jesus.

⁸ whom without knowing him personally you love; in whom though you do not now see him, yet you believe, and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorified joy,

¹⁷ Let him who hath an ear hear what the spirit saith to the congregations. To him who overcometh I will grant to eat of the manna which was laid up; and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he who receiveth it.

⁶ If thou art pure and upright, he will hear thy prayer; and render to thee the reward of righteousness.

¹⁵ Though he prop up his house, it cannot stand: Though he take hold of it, it will not abide,

³⁴ For death is the testimonial of a wicked man: and a fire shall consume the tents of bribery. He shall conceive sorrows and bring forth vanity, and his belly shall produce an illusion.

¹⁴ May health be expelled from his dwelling, and distress lay hold on him with the authority of a king. ¹⁵ It will make its abode in his tent; in his night all his finery will be strewed with sulphur.

²¹ Such are the houses of the unrighteous, and such the place of them who know not the Lord.

²⁶ May terrors stalk around him and total darkness await him! An unkindled fire devoureth him. May his guest also afflict his family! ²⁷ may the heaven disclose his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him! ²⁸ May destruction bring his house to an end! Upon him may there come a day of wrath!

²⁸ that you will say, Where is the house of the chief, and where is the covering of the tents of the wicked?

¹³ "This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord: and the possession of oppressors, which shall come to them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If their children be many they shall be for slaughter; and if they grow up to men, they shall be beggars. ¹⁵ Those who are about him shall die by pestilence: and their widows none shall compassionate. ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as dust; and store up gold as clay: ¹⁷ the righteous shall take charge of all these; and men of truth shall enjoy his wealth. ¹⁸ His house is gone like moths or like a cobweb. ¹⁹ He shall lie down rich but shall not continue so. He hath opened his eyes, and all is gone. ²⁰ Sorrows flowed in upon him like water. In a night a tempest swept him away. ²¹ A burning wind shall take him up and go he must. It shall blow him away out of his place. ²² He will dash upon him and will not spare. Should he by flight flee from his hand, ²³ he will cause them to clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place."

² His seed shall be mighty in the land: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Glory and riches are in his house; and his righteousness shall endure forever.

³ Thy wife shall be in the sides of thy house, like a fruitful vine; thy children round thy table, like olive plants.

³³ The curse of God is in the houses of the wicked: but the folds of the righteous are blessed.

²⁸ He who trusteth in riches shall fall; but he who helpeth the righteous shall nourish.

⁷ When the wicked is overthrown, he vanisheth: but the houses of the righteous shall remain.

¹² A just man discerneth the hearts of the wicked; and despiseth the wicked for their wickedness.

²⁰ A desirable treasure will rest in the mouth of the wise: but men who are foolish will swallow it.

¹¹ and thy God will be with thee continually; and thou shalt be satisfied as thy soul desireth; and thy bones shall be made fat and be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose water never failed. ¹² And thine old waste places shall be rebuilded; and thy foundations shall last for generations of generations: and thou shalt be called the repairer of breaches, and shalt enjoy rest in the midst of thy paths.

⁴ therefore I will bring it out saith the Lord Almighty; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who sweareth by my name to a falsehood; and it shall lodge in his house, and destroy it with the timber and the stones thereof.

²⁶ But whoever heareth these words of mine, and doth not put them in practice, may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. ²⁷ When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; it fell, and great was the ruin thereof.

¹⁵ The ways of fools are right in their own eyes: but a wise man hearkeneth to advice.

²⁵ There are ways which seem right to a man: but the latter ends of them look to the bottom of Hades.

¹² A wicked progeny judge themselves righteous, but have not purged their ways.

¹³ Enter in at the strait gate. Because the gate is wide and the way broad which leadeth to destruction, therefore many there are who go in through it: ¹⁴ because the gate is strait and the way narrow, which leadeth to life, therefore there are few who find it.

²⁴ Strive with all your might to enter in through the narrow gate; for many, I assure you, will seek to enter, who will not be able.

²¹ what fruit therefore had you then from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

³ For if any one thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain discourses; for on the account of these things the wrath of God is coining on these children of disobedience,

²² and be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

⁴ but in the end thou wilt find it bitterer than gall, and sharper than a two edged sword.

² To laughter I said, It is madness; and to mirth, What is this thou art doing?

¹⁰ And whatever mine eyes desired I withheld not from them, nor did I restrain my heart from all my pleasure. Because my heart had been gladdened with all my labour, [now this was my portion from all my labour] ¹¹ therefore I looked back on all the works which my hands had done, and on the labour with which I had toiled to execute them; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit and there is no lasting advantage under the sun.

⁵ It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise, than to listen to the song of fools. ⁶ Like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools. Surely this also is vanity.

⁹ rejoice then, young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart spotless and not by the sight of thine eyes, and know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment.

²⁵ And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

⁹ Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into grief; and your joy into con fusion of face.

⁷ In proportion to her ostentation and luxury inflict on her torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I am enthroned a queen and am not a widow, and shall not see sorrow; ⁸ therefore in one day these calamities shall come upon her, pestilence and sorrow and famine; and she shall be consumed with fire; for the Lord God who judgeth her is mighty.

³¹ Let them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled with their own iniquity. ³² For, because they wronged infants they shall be slain: and a rigorous inquest shall destroy the wicked.

¹⁴ From the fruits of his mouth the soul of man shall be satisfied with good things; and the recompence of his lips shall be given him.

¹⁰ The heart of a man who hath sensibility; the soul of him who hath a feeling for pain, when he is made glad, mingleth not with pride.

¹⁹ Let this apostacy of thine correct thee. And thy wickedness work conviction in thee. And know and see how bitter a thing it is to forsake me, saith the Lord thy God.

⁵ Why then hath this my people shamefully turned aside, and persisted in their error and refused to return?

⁵ Cursed is the man whose hope is on man; who shall fix the flesh of his arm on him, and whose heart hath departed from the Lord.

³¹ therefore I poured out my wrath upon it, to destroy it utterly with the fire of mine indignation. Their ways I have requited on their heads, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹⁶ Because Israel ran about madly like a heifer stung by a gad fly, the Lord will now feed them like a lamb in a roomy place.

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

¹⁴ but whosoever shall drink of the water which I will give him, will never thirst. But the water which I will give him, will be in him a fountain of water springing up for an everlasting life.

¹² For this is the matter of our boasting; the testimony of our conscience, that with simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more especially towards you.

⁴ Now let every one prove his own work, and then he. will have his boasting for himself alone and not for another.

⁸ Because he who soweth for his flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption; but he who soweth for the spirit shall from the spirit reap life everlasting;

¹² Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

²⁰ For if alter fleeing from the pollutions of the world by an acknowledgment of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, any are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of such persons is worse than the first. ²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog is returned to his vomit," and "the washed hog to its wallowing slough."

²⁶ Make straight paths with thy feet and order all thy ways right.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will give them a knowledge of their ways; but the folly of fools is in error.

³ A prudent man seeing the wicked severely punished instructeth himself: but the foolish passed heedlessly by and were punished.

¹² When ills approach, a prudent man is hidden: but the simple pass on to their sorrow.

¹³ therefore the prudent will at that time be silent because it is the time of wicked men.

⁷ He was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding, who had sent for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

¹⁸ For such men do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their fawning speeches and flattering forms of address, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹ For your obedience is come abroad to all; I therefore rejoice on your account, and wish you to be indeed wise for good, and without any mixture of evil.

¹⁴ that we may no longer be infants, tossed like waves, and whirled about by every wind of doctrine, by the cheating sleight of men, by a skill in the art of deceiving:

¹ Beloved, trust not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God; for many false teachers, are gone forth into the world.

⁹ Whereupon Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep thou thine own.

¹⁸ And on the third day he said to them, Do this and live; for I fear God.

² Jezabel sent to Elias, and said, As sure as thou art Elias, and I Jezabel, God do so to me and more also, if by this time to-morrow I do not make thy life like the life of one of them.

¹⁰ Son Ader sent to him saying, God do so to me and more also, if I do not make Samaria a jakes for all the people of my infantry. ¹¹ In reply to which the king of Israel said, Enough! let not him who is crooked boast like him who is straight.

¹⁸ Whereupon he said to them, If they come out for peace, take them alive; or if they come out for battle take them alive and let them not get away out of the city.

¹⁵ those daily allowances with which they who were before me had loaded them, and which they had exacted from them in bread and wine, to the amount at least of forty didrachms of silver. They indeed who had been displaced, tyrannised over the people; but as for me I did not do so; because I feared God.

²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support: ²² may my shoulder bone be dislocated, and my arm broken at the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord restrained me, and the burden of that I could not endure.

¹⁴ depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with the dread of thee; for I am terrified at thy judgments.

⁷ Be not wise in thine own conceit; but fear God and depart from all evil:

²² And he is gone after her, attracted by her; as an ox is led to slaughter, or as a dog to be chained: or like a deer pierced through the liver with a dart.

⁶ [Omitted]

¹⁴ Happy the man who piously feareth all things: but he who is of an intractable temper will fall into evils.

⁹ A wise man shall judge nations: but a fool when angry is derided and terrifieth not.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly and the end of his talk is malicious madness.

¹⁷ For Herod had sent and apprehended John, and confined him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married. ¹⁸ For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. ¹⁹ Therefore Herodias was enraged at him, and wished to kill him, but could not;

²⁴ Upon this she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist. ²⁵ So coming in immediately with all haste to the king, she made her request, saying, I desire thee to give me forthwith, in a basin, the head of John the baptist.

⁴⁰ and some of the Pharisees who were with him, when they heard this, said, Are we blind?

²² Abstain from every appearance of evil.

⁶ he was greatly inflamed with wrath, and determined to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes.

⁵ And the king said, Who is he who hath dared to do such a thing? ⁶ To which Esther replied, The adversary is Haman, this bad man. At this Haman was struck with consternation for fear of the king and the queen.

¹⁸ his heart contriveth wicked purposes, and his feet are swift to do evil:

¹⁶ A fool presently sheweth his wrath: but a prudent man concealeth his dishonour.

²⁹ A man slow to wrath, is of great understanding; but a passionate man is egregiously foolish.

¹⁸ A wrathful man prepareth battles; but he who is slow to anger appeaseth the rising quarrel. A man slow to anger will extinguish law suits; but the wicked rather promote them.

³² A man who is slow to wrath is better than the mighty; and he who subdueth anger is better than he who taketh a city,

²⁴ Have no fellowship with a man addicted to wrath; nor lodge with a friend who is passionate:

²² A passionate man stirreth up strife: but a furious man is a digger up of sin.

⁹ Be not apt to be grieved in spirit; for grief will rest in the bosom of fools.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise unlawful devices to destroy the poor with unjust pleas; and to baffle the pleas of the poor in judgment.

²⁶ [J] Since there have been found among my people wicked men, who have set snares to destroy men and have caught them. ²⁷ As a trap which hath been set is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit, therefore they became great and rich ²⁸ and overleaped judgment; they did not administer justice to the orphan, nor decide righteously the cause of the widow; ²⁹ shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, and on such a nation as this shall not my soul be avenged?

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory; but the wicked have extolled dishonour.

⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ secure it and it will exalt thee: honour it that it may embrace thee: ⁹ that it may be to thy head a crown of graces and cover thee with a crown of pleasure.

²⁹ He who hath no cover for his own house shall inherit the wind; and a fool shall be a servant to the prudent. ³⁰ From the fruit of righteousness springeth up the tree of life: but the lives of transgressors are prematurely destroyed.

¹⁹ [p] O Lord, Thou art my strength and my help, and my refuge in days of affliction. To Thee nations will come from the extremity of the earth and say, What lying idols did our fathers possess! there is no advantage in them.

¹⁷ we will not hearken to thee; for we will continue to perform every word which shall proceed from our mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her; as we and our fathers and our kings and our chiefs did in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem; for we had then plenty of bread and were in happy circumstances and saw no evils:

³ And they who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous like the stars for the ages and longer.

²⁹ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been their accomplices in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets. ³² As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers.

⁸ As to what remaineth, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, not only to me, but to all who have loved his glorious appearance.

¹⁸ knowing that from that vain course of life, handed down to you from your fathers, you have been redeemed not with perishable things such as silver and gold,

⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

⁶ Joseph was the governor of the country; he sold to all the people of that land. So when Joseph's brothers came they made obeisance to him with their face to the ground.

²⁸ And they said, Thy servant, our father is well. He is still alive. And he said, Blessed of God is that man. Whereupon they bowed down and made obeisance to him.

⁸ yet Pharao called Moses and Aaron and said, Pray for me to the Lord, and let him take away the frogs from me and my people; and I will let them go that they may sacrifice to the Lord.

²⁷ Then Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them, I have sinned this time. The Lord is righteous; but as for me and my people, we are wicked. ²⁸ Pray therefore for me to the Lord; and let the voices of God and the hail and fire cease and I will send you away and you shall stay no longer.

⁸ And all these thy servants will come down to me and make obeisance to me and say, Go away thou and all thy people whom thou wouldst take with thee. Then Moses went out from Pharao with indignation

³⁶ And it shall be, that he who is left in thy house, will come to bow down before him, for a piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of the priestly offices that I may eat bread.

¹² And Josaphat said, The word of the Lord is with him. So the king of Israel, with Josaphat king of Juda and the king of Edom, went down to him.

⁷ Then the king rising from the banquet went into the garden, and Haman supplicated the queen, for he saw himself in a desperate situation. ⁸ And on the king's returning out of the garden as Haman had prostrated himself on the sopha to supplicate the queen, the king said, What! would he offer violence to my wife in my house? Upon hearing this Haman was confounded.

¹⁴ They are pent up like sheep in the mansion of the dead: death shall feed them and the early watches will rule over them: and that help of theirs from their glory, shall in the mansion of the dead become obsolete.

²⁹ He who hath no cover for his own house shall inherit the wind; and a fool shall be a servant to the prudent.

¹⁴ And to thee shall come trembling the sons of them who afflicted and humbled thee, and thou shalt be called, City Sion of the Holy one of Israel.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; until he vindicate my cause. He will do me justice and bring me out into light; ¹⁰ and shame shall cover her who saith, "Where is thy God?" Mine eyes shall see her. She shall now be trodden down like dirt in the streets.

¹⁶ Nations shall see and be confounded, and because of all the mighty power of these, they will lay their hands on their mouths. Their ears will be stopped. ¹⁷ They will lick dust like serpents trailing on the ground; they will be confounded in their enclosure. [p] At the Lord our God let them be confounded and struck with terror because of thee.

³ And you shall trample down the wicked, for they will be like ashes under your feet, on the day which I make, saith the Lord Almighty.

³⁹ they came and comforted them, and having taken them out, intreated them to leave the city.

⁹ behold I give thee some of the synagogue of satan, who say they are Jews and are not; but do lie. Behold I will make them come, and worship at thy feet, and know that I have loved thee.

² so that all the court bowed down to him for so the king had commanded to be done. But Mordecai did not bow down to him;

¹⁰ So going home, he called his friends and his wife Zosara, ¹¹ and having displayed to them his riches and the honour which the king had conferred on him; how he had promoted him to the highest rank and made him ruler of the kingdom,

²¹ just to see my wound and be terrified. But why? ²² Have I asked anything of you, or do I crave any help from you? ²³ to save me from mine enemies; or deliver me out of the hand of the mighty?

¹³ My brethren stood aloof from me, they acknowledged strangers rather than me; and my friends were not compassionate. ¹⁴ My nearest relations paid me no attention: and they who knew my name forgot me.

¹⁰ and have abhorred me and stood at a distance: and have not spared to spit in my face.

¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is a strong city: but penury is the destruction of the wicked.

⁴ Wealth maketh many friends; but a poor man is forsaken by the only friend he hath.

⁶ Many court the favour of kings; but every one who is wicked is a disgrace to a man in power. ⁷ Every one who hateth a brother in distress shall be far from friendship. A good understanding will approach them who know it, and a prudent man will find it. He who doth much evil perfecteth wickedness; and he who useth irritating words shall not be safe.

¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me, ¹⁴ what shall I do when the Lord maketh inquest? And when he visiteth, what answer shall I make? ¹⁵ Was not I formed in the womb as they were? And were we not alike fashioned in the belly?

⁵ Look up to yonder heaven and see; and observe the clouds, how high above thee they are. ⁶ If thou hast sinned, what canst thou do? And if thou hast multiplied transgressions, what canst thou effect?

²⁴ for he hath not slighted, nor abhorred the prayer of the distressed; nor turned away his face from me: but hearkened to me when I cried to him.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. Happy he who is considerate with regard to the distressed and needy; in time of trouble the Lord will deliver him. ² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and make him happy in the land, and may he never deliver him into the hands of his enemy!

⁵ a beneficent man who commiserateth and lendeth. He will manage his affairs with judgment;

⁹ He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness shall endure forever. His horn shall be gloriously exalted:

²⁴ There are some who scattering their substance make it more: and some who gather and make it less. ²⁵ A soul is blessed which is altogether sincere: but a passionate man is not respected.

³¹ He who oppresseth the poor, provoketh his maker; but he who honoureth him, compassionateth the distressed.

⁵ He who derideth a man in distress provoketh his maker; and he who rejoiceth at another's ruin shall not go unpunished: but he who sheweth compassion shall find mercy.

³ When a wicked man cometh to a depth of evils he sheweth contempt; but ignominy and reproach come upon him.

¹⁷ He who is kind to the poor lendeth to God; and according to his gift he will repay him.

²⁷ He who giveth to the poor shall not be in want: but he who turneth away his eyes shall be indigent.

¹ Send away thy bread on the face of the water; for after many days thou shalt find it. ² Give a portion to seven and even to eight; for thou knowest not what evil may be on the earth.

⁷ deal out thy bread to the hungry, and take into thy house the poor who have no shelter; if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and look not scornfully on dependants of thy race; ⁸ then shall thy light break forth like the morning, and thy remedies shall spring up speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lord will surround thee. ⁹ Then thou shalt cry and God will answer thee; and whilst thou art speaking he will say, Lo I am here. If thou remove from thee the bond, and the vote and decree which occasion murmuring, ¹⁰ and from thy soul give bread to the hungry and satisfy an afflicted soul; then shall thy light spring up in darkness; and thy darkness shall be as the noon day:

²⁷ For this cause, king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee; and make atonement for thy sins by acts of kindness, and for thy transgressions by tender mercies for the distressed. Perhaps God may forgive thine offences.

³⁴ Then the king will say to them on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the formation of the world: ³⁵ for I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you lodged me; ³⁶ naked, and you clothed me; sick, and you took care of me; I was in prison, and you visited me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and feed thee; or thirsty, and give thee drink? ³⁸ When saw we thee a stranger, and lodged thee; or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And the king in reply will say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done this to one of these my brethren, even the least, you have done it to me. ⁴¹ Then he will say to them on his left, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the fire which is everlasting; that prepared for the devil and his angels! ⁴² For I was hungry, and you gave me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger, and you did not lodge me; naked, and you did not clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me. ⁴⁴ Then they also will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? ⁴⁵ And he will answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have not done this to any, the least of these, you have not done it to me. ⁴⁶ So these shall go to everlasting punishment and the righteous to an everlasting life.

³⁰ Give to every one who asketh thee. And from him who taketh away thy goods, do not demand them back. ³¹ And as you wish men to do to you, do ye even so to them. ³² If you indeed love them who love you, what thanks are you entitled to. For even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are you entitled to? For even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if you lend to them from whom you hope to receives what thanks are you entitled to. For even sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive as much in return. ³⁵ But love your enemies; and do good; and lend without any mistrust, and your reward will be great. And you will be the children of the Most High Because he is kind, even to the ungrateful and malignant; ³⁶ be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

⁹ Then with a view to some who had a confidence in themselves that they were righteous, and who despised others, he spake this parable,

³⁵ On all occasions I have suggested to you that you ought thus to labour, and support the indigent, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, "It is a greater happiness to give, than to receive."

¹² that you may not become languid, but imitators of them who through faith and long suffering inherit the promises.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them who love him? ⁶ But you have treated the poor with disdain. Do not the rich domineer over you? Do they not drag you to tribunals?

¹⁴ What is the advantage, my brethren, though one should say he hath belief, when he hath not works? Can that belief save him? ¹⁵ Suppose a brother or a sister be naked, or in want of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you should say to them, go in peace: be warmed, and be fed to the full; and you do not give them the things necessary for the body, is this any advantage?

¹⁷ Whosoever hath worldly substance, and seeth his brother in want, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸ My children, let us not love in word, and with the tongue, but in deed, and in truth. ¹⁹ When we know by this that we are of the truth, let us in his presence persuade our hearts, ²⁰ in respect to what things soever our heart condemneth us, that God is greater than our hearts, and that he knoweth all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart doth not condemn us, we have confidence towards God, ²² and whatever we ask we obtain from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

²⁷ and said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not withdrawn his kindness and his truth from my master. The Lord hath indeed given me a prosperous journey to the house of my master's brother.

⁸ the Lord said to my father David, Forasmuch as it came into thy heart to build a house for my name, thou hast done well that it was in thy heart.

¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; to them who seek his covenant and his testimonies.

⁷ he will continue forever in the presence of God. that every of them may find out his mercy and truth!

²⁹ Devise not evils against thy friend; who sojourneth with thee and confideth in thee.

¹⁷ A passionate man acteth without counsel; but a prudent man beareth many things.

²² Beneficence is a crop for a man: and a poor just man is better than a rich liar.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise unlawful devices to destroy the poor with unjust pleas; and to baffle the pleas of the poor in judgment. ⁸ But the pious have counselled with understanding; and their counsel shall be established."

⁷ Happy the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.

¹⁷ Because the law was given by Moses grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ He who winketh deceitfully with his eyes, collecteth sorrows for men; but he who reproveth freely maketh peace.

²⁴ The hand of the valiant can easily conquer: but the deceitful shall be for a prey.

¹⁹ He who tilleth his own ground shall have plenty of bread; but he who followeth idleness, shall have plenty of poverty.

³ Because a dream cometh by much temptation, and a fool's voice with many words;

²⁷ Labour not to procure the food which perisheth, but the food which endureth for an everlasting life, which the son of man will give you; for him the Father, namely God, hath sealed.

¹⁰ For when we were with you we gave you this charge, that he who would not work should not eat. ¹¹ For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing no work, but busying themselves impertinently. ¹² Now we charge such, and intreat them by the Lord Jesus Christ, to work quietly, and eat their own bread.

¹³ Add to this, that, being idle, they learn to ramble from house to house, and are not only idle, but are indeed tatlers, and intermedlers, speaking tilings which are unbecoming.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work, and the labour of that love which you have shewn for his name, by the assistance which you have given and continue to give to the saints. ¹¹ Now we earnestly desire that every one of you would shew the same diligent concern for the full assurance of this hope to the end:

¹⁰ When he seeth the wise dying; together the foolish and senseless shall perish. And they shall leave their wealth to others, ¹¹ [a] But their graves shall be their houses forever; their dwelling places to all generations. On these parcels of earth, they have put their names, ¹² [b] When a man, who is in honour, hath not understanding: he hath been compared to the brute beasts and is like them; ¹³ this very way of theirs was to them a stumbling block; and after this shall it with their mouth be praised?

²² Though thou shouldst whip a fool publickly and disgrace him: thou canst not take away his folly.

¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance; and it is an advantage to them who see the sun, that they are in the shade of it. ¹² Wisdom is like the shade of money; but the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is; it will give life to him who is a follower of it.

⁶ [c] By law they were to be delivered up; in treasures is our safety. [p] Let there be there wisdom and knowledge and piety towards the Lord, [These are the treasures of righteousness;]

⁹ therefore I say to you, From the worldly prudence of this unrighteousness, make ye friends for yourselves, that when you fail, ye may be received into the everlasting abodes.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was clad with purple and cotton robes, and who feasted daily in a splendid manner. ²⁰ And there was a certain poor man, named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores, ²¹ desirous indeed to be fed with the crumbs which fell from his table: and moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried. ²³ And in the mansion of the dead having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he seeth Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ Whereupon he cried and said, Father, Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

⁵ A faithful witness doth not lie; but a false witness kindleth lies.

²¹ attesting both to Jews and Greeks the turning of the mind to God, and the belief in our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁶ therefore I testify to you this day that I am clear from the blood of all men. ²⁷ For I have not shrunk from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

¹⁶ But arise, and stand on thy feet; for I have appeared to thee for this purpose, to appoint thee a minister and a witness of the things which thou hast seen, and of the things for which I will appear to thee, ¹⁷ delivering thee from the people and the nations to which I now send thee ¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive a remission of sins and an inheritance among them who are sanctified by the belief in me. ¹⁹ From that time, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but made proclamation first to them at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the nations, to reform and turn to God, performing works worthy of the change of mind.

¹ But the spirit saith expressly that in latter times some will apostatise from this belief, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines concerning demons, ² through the hypocrisy of liars, who have their own conscience seared, ³ forbidding marriage, and enjoining an abstinence from meats which God hath created to be partaken of with thankfulness by the faithful, and by them who are convinced of this truth,

³ knowing this first, that in the last day scoffers will come, walking after their own desires,

⁴² Had not the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaak been with me, thou wouldst now have sent me away empty. God hath seen my affliction and the labour of my hands, therefore he rebuked thee last night.

⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round them that fear him, and deliver them. ⁸ Taste and see that the Lord is good! happy is the man, who trusteth in him. ⁹ fear the Lord all ye his saints! for they who fear him have no want. ¹⁰ Rich men have become poor and hungry: But they who seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. ¹¹ Come, ye children, hearken to me: and I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

⁶ because he is never to be shaken; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance: ⁷ at bad news he will not be terrified: his heart is prepared to trust in the Lord. ⁸ His heart is established, he could not be terrified; even when he beheld his enemies.

¹³ he hath blessed them, who fear the Lord, both small and great. ¹⁴ May the Lord add to you more and more; to you and to your children

⁷ Be not wise in thine own conceit; but fear God and depart from all evil: ⁸ then shall thy body have health and thy bones a cure.

²⁵ and shalt not fear the bursting in of terror; nor the sudden assaults of wicked men. ²⁶ For the Lord will be over all thy ways, and will support thy foot that thou mayst not be shaken.

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is of majestic power; and the righteous having recourse to it shall be exalted.

²³ The fear of the Lord conduceth to a man's life: but he who is fearless will lodge in places where knowledge doth not watch.

¹⁸ It is good to restrain thyself in the one case; and surely for the other consideration thou shouldst not pollute thy hand. Because to them who fear God all things may happen,

²⁰ Go my people, enter into thy chambers; shut thy door: hide thyself for a little while; until the anger of the Lord is passed. ²¹ For behold the Lord from his sanctuary is about to bring wrath on the inhabitants of this land; and the land will disclose the blood on it, and will no longer cover the slain.

¹¹ Be it so; O Lord, while they enjoy prosperity.[J] Did I not stand by thee, in the time of their calamities and in the time of their affliction, for good with the enemy?

³⁹ And I will give them another way and another heart that I may be always feared and may be for good to them and their children after them. ⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, which I will not turn away from them; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not apostatise from me;

¹⁶ Against these things they who feared the Lord spoke to one another; and the Lord hearkened and heard and wrote a book of remembrance before him for them who fear the Lord and revere his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be, saith the Lord Almighty, an acquisition for me, on the day which I make; and I will make choice of them, as a man maketh choice of a son who serveth him. ¹⁸ And when you shall be converted, you shall see the difference between a righteous man and one who is unrighteous; and between him who serveth God and him who serveth not.

² But to you who fear my name the son of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth and leap for joy like young bullocks loosed from yokes.

⁵ The pangs of Hades surrounded me, and the snares of death were before me.

¹⁰ For when wisdom entereth into thine understanding: and knowledge appeareth pleasant to thy soul: ¹¹ good counsel will keep thee, and holy prudence will guard thee: ¹² that she may deliver thee from an evil way and from a man who speaketh perversely. ¹³ Alas for them who leave straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who are delighted with evils and have joy in evil perversion; ¹⁵ whose ways are crooked, and whose paths turn aside to lead thee far from the straight road ¹⁶ and estrange thee from a just determination. ¹⁷ My son, let not evil counsel, who hath forsaken the discipline of youth and hath forgotten the divine covenant, take hold of thee. ¹⁸ For she hath placed her house near death; and her wheels with the earth born near the mansion of the dead.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is a fountain of life; but the fool shall die by a snare.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in crooked paths: but he who watcheth his soul shall avoid them.

²⁶ That bitterer than death is that whole class of women who are prostitutes. Though their heart is nets and their hands chains, he who is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from them; but a sinner shall be taken by them.

⁶ and he said to me, It is done; I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end; to him who thirsteth I will give without cost from the fountain of the water of life.

¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew stronger and stronger. So the Egyptians were abhorred by the children of Israel;

²² Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive.

²⁰ [Omitted] ²¹ [Omitted]

²⁷ And the Israelites were mustered and went out to meet them. And when Israel had encamped over against them like two little flocks of kids, while Syria filled the country,

³² In those days the Lord began to lop Israel; and Azael smote them all along the border of Israel, ³³ from the Jordan towards the rising of the sun; all the land of Galaad belonging to the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, including Galaad and Basan.

⁷ though there had not been left to Joachaz any army, but only fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry. For the king of Syria, had destroyed them and made them like dust to be trampled on.

³ [Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men on the earth,]

⁸ secure it and it will exalt thee: honour it that it may embrace thee:

¹¹ A merciful man is slow to wrath; and his boast is over transgressors.

²⁴ Have no fellowship with a man addicted to wrath; nor lodge with a friend who is passionate: ²⁵ lest thou learn his ways and lay a snare for thine own life.

⁸ Enter not hastily into a quarrel: lest thou repent at the last when thy friend shall upbraid thee.

²⁸ A man who doth any thing without counsel; is like a city which hath the foundations of walls laid and is without walls.

⁶ The fool is set in high stations while the rich shall sit in a low place.

¹⁹ At this Nabuchodonosar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed against Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago. And he ordered to heat the furnace seven fold, till it was hot as possible: ²⁰ and commanded some strong men to bind Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago, and cast them into the furnace of fire which was heated. ²¹ Then were these men bound, clad as they were with their Babylonish dress and with turbans and boots; and cast into the midst of the furnace of fire which was heated, ²² as the command of the king was peremptory. But though the furnace was heated to an excessive degree and ²³ these three men, Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago fell bound into the midst of the glowing furnace, yet they walked about in the midst of the flame, praising God and blessing the Lord. ²⁴ When Nabuchodonosar heard them singing praise he was amazed and starting up hastily said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? And when they said to the king, True, king, ²⁵ the king said, Here I see four men loose and walking about in the midst of the fire unhurt: And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of a god.

¹⁶ When Herod saw that he was treated with contempt by the magians, he was highly incensed, and he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and all the territory belonging thereto, from those who had entered the second year and under, according to the time, of which he had. got exact information from the magians.

²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

⁴ Love is long suffering; it aboundeth in kindness. Love is not envious. Love is not insolent: it is not puffed up. ⁵ It doth not behave itself unbecomingly. It is not self interested. It is not easily provoked. It placeth not the evil to account.

¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of this righteousness is peaceably sown by them who cultivate peace.

² Passion indeed transporteth the foolish, and envy killeth the wanderer.

¹⁰ the wicked shall see and be enraged. Let him gnash his teeth and pine away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I may not be shamed.

⁸ then shall thy body have health and thy bones a cure.

²³ Guard thy heart with all diligence; for out of these are the issues of life.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but a mischievous woman, like a Worm in wood, ruineth her husband.

²² A cheerful heart promoteth health; but the bones of a heart wounded man are dried up.

⁹ And the patriarchs, being moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him,

²⁹ filled as they were with all manner of injustice, lewdness, maliciousness, covetousness, mischief, being full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, evil habits; being whisperers,

⁷ For God hath not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and love, and a sound mind.

⁵ Do you think that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which dwelt in us excite desire to envy?

¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me, ¹⁴ what shall I do when the Lord maketh inquest? And when he visiteth, what answer shall I make? ¹⁵ Was not I formed in the womb as they were? And were we not alike fashioned in the belly? ¹⁶ Far from depriving the poor of what they had, or causing the heart of a widow to fail;

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor; because of the groans of the needy; now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set in safety and speak boldly.

²¹ He who despiseth the poor, sinneth: but he who compassionateth the poor is blessed.

² The rich and poor have met each other; and the Lord hath made them both.

¹⁶ Some plunder the poor to increase their wealth and give to the rich to lessen it.

²² Oppress not the needy because he is poor: nor treat with disrespect at the gates one who is weak. ²³ For the Lord will judge his cause; and thou shouldst preserve thy life safe and secure.

⁸ If thou seest a frivolous accusation of a poor man, and a rigorous exaction of judgment and justice in a country, marvel not at the matter. Because there is a high one over a high one to watch, and high ones are for these things,

⁸ for you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always.

⁷ that, as you abound in every thing; in belief, and doctrine, and knowledge, and in all earnestness even in your love for us, you might abound also in this bounty. ⁸ I do not say this by way of command, but am, during the exertion of others, proving the genuineness of your love. ⁹ For you know the bounty of our Lord Jesus Christ, that rich as he was, he for your sakes became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.

¹⁷ Whosoever hath worldly substance, and seeth his brother in want, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸ My children, let us not love in word, and with the tongue, but in deed, and in truth. ¹⁹ When we know by this that we are of the truth, let us in his presence persuade our hearts, ²⁰ in respect to what things soever our heart condemneth us, that God is greater than our hearts, and that he knoweth all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart doth not condemn us, we have confidence towards God,

²¹ Besides, we have this commandment from him, That he who loveth God, love his brother also:

¹⁸ Waiting continually the salvation of the Lord.

¹⁵ Though the Almighty, as he hath begun, may subdue me: yet I will speak and plead before him.

¹⁸ When his name shall be published abroad, may they drive him from light to darkness.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal, ²⁶ who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things. ²⁷ For from the Lord those things have been done to me, of which I alone am conscious; which mine eyes have seen, and no other; and which have all been done to me in my bosom.

²⁰ Sorrows flowed in upon him like water. In a night a tempest swept him away. ²¹ A burning wind shall take him up and go he must. It shall blow him away out of his place. ²² He will dash upon him and will not spare. Should he by flight flee from his hand,

¹¹ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou with thy presence wilt fill me with joy. At thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

¹⁵ But as for me, let me appear righteous before thee; let me be satisfied with a display of thy glory.

⁴ For though I walk amidst the shades of death: I will fear no ills, because thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff have been my comfort.

³⁷ Preserve innocence and eye rectitude; for there is a remnant for the man of peace.

⁹ Before your bramble bush can make its prickles felt; it will devour you as it were alive, as with wrath.

¹⁵ For this cause his destruction cometh suddenly; Wounds and incurable bruises.

¹⁶ For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again; but in calamities the wicked shall be without strength.

²⁶ The interpretation of the decree is this. Mane; God hath measured thy kingdom and brought it to a conclusion. ²⁷ Thekel; It hath been weighed in a balance and found wanting. ²⁸ Phares; Thy kingdom is taken away and given to Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Baltasar gave orders and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold about his neck, and proclamation was made concerning him that he was a chief, third in rank, in the kingdom. ³⁰ And that very night Baltasar the Chaldean king was slain,

²⁹ Now, O Lord, thou dismissest thy servant in peace according to thy word,

²¹ therefore Jesus said to them again, I am. going away, and you will seek me and die in your sins. Whither I go you cannot come.

²⁴ therefore I said to you, You will die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.

²² What if God willing to manifest his wrath and make known his power, did with much long suffering, bear with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

⁵⁵ O death where is thy sting? Where thy victory, O grave? ⁵⁶ Sin is indeed the sting of death; And the law is the strength of sin: ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God who gives us the victory Through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, immoveable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.

⁹ but had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead,

⁸ and go on undaunted [as we think it better for us to be abroad from the body and at home with the Lord;]

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

²³ For I am strained between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is by far the best;

³ For whilst they are saying, there is peace and safety, sudden destruction is then upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they cannot escape.

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from the heaven saying to me, "Write, Happy the dead who die in the Lord henceforth! Yes, verily saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labours and their works accompany them.

²³ A prudent man is a throne of knowledge: but the heart of fools will encounter curses.

¹⁶ Every prudent man acteth with knowledge; but the fool hath laid open his wickedness.

² The tongue of the wise knoweth good things; but the mouth of fools poureth out evils.

²⁸ The hearts of the righteous study faithfulness: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. The ways of the righteous are acceptable to the Lord: and by them enemies are made friends.

¹¹ A fool sheweth all his wrath; but a wise man dispenseth it gradually.

³ In every way at least when a fool is on his march his heart will fail him so that all which he shall devise is folly.

⁶ Therefore keep them, and practise them. For this will be your wisdom, and your understanding, in the sight of all the nations. Whoever shall chance to hear all these rules of rectitude, will say, Behold this is a wise and understanding people a great nation. ⁷ For how great must that nation be, which hath God near them, as the Lord our God is on all occasions, if we call upon him! ⁸ And how great must the nation be, which hath such rules of rectitude, and such righteous judgments, as are contained in the whole law, which I this day lay before you.

¹ Now it shall come to pass, that if thou wilt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and perform all these commandments which I this day give thee in charge, the Lord thy God will set thee high above all the nations of the earth; ² and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and find thee. If thou wilt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God, ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city; and blessed shalt thou be in the field; ⁴ blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the products of thy land, and thy herds, and thy flocks. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed when thou goest out. ⁷ May the Lord thy God deliver up thine enemies, who rise up against thee, to be smitten before thee. They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. ⁸ The Lord send upon thee the blessing in thy store houses, and on all the labours of thy hands, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ⁹ The Lord establish thee a holy people for himself, as he solemnly promised thy fathers. If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and walk in all his ways, ¹⁰ then shall all the nations of the earth see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of thee; ¹¹ and the Lord thy God will multiply thee, for good, in the offspring of thy body, and in the increase of thy cattle, and in the products of thy ground, in the land which he solemnly promised thy fathers to give thee. ¹² The Lord open for thee his good treasury, the heaven, to give thy land the rain in due season. May he bless all the works of thy hands, so that thou mayst lend to many nations, and not borrow of them; ¹³ and that thou mayst rule over many nations, and they not rule over thee. May the Lord establish thee for a head and not for a tail, so that thou mayst be above, and not beneath. If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all that I this day enjoin thee, ¹⁴ thou wilt not turn aside from all the commandments which I this day command thee, either to the right, or to the left, to go after other gods, to serve them. ¹⁵ But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed thou in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the products of thy land, thy herds and thy flocks. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed thou when thou goest out. ²⁰ The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and destruction on all the labour of thy hands, until he utterly root thee out, and until he destroy thee quickly, on the account of thy wicked devices. Seeing thou hast forsaken me, ²¹ may the Lord make the pestilence cleave to thee, until it utterly consume thee from the land to which thou art going, to take possession of it. ²² The Lord smite thee with anxiety, and fever, and chilness, and restlessness, and blasting, and mildew, that they may pursue thee until they utterly destroy thee. ²³ And when the heaven over thy head shall be brass, and the earth under thy feet iron, ²⁴ may the Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust, so that dust from heaven may descend until it waste thee, and until it destroy thee speedily. ²⁵ May the Lord deliver thee up to slaughter before thine enemies, so that thou mayst go out one way to meet them, and flee seven ways from before them; and be a dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth; ²⁶ and your dead carcasses be food for the birds of the air, and the wild beasts of the earth, and there be none to fray them away. ²⁷ The Lord smite thee with the Egyptian boil in thy seat, and with wild fire, and with itching, so that thou canst not be cured. ²⁸ The Lord smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart, ²⁹ so that thou mayst grope about at noon day, as a blind man gropeth in darkness; and let him not prosper thy ways, so thou shalt then be injured, and spoiled continually, and there will be none to help thee. ³⁰ Thou wilt take a wife, and another man shall have her. Thou wilt build a house, but shall not dwell therein. Thou wilt plant a vineyard, but shalt not gather the grapes thereof. ³¹ Thy ox will be slaughtered before thy face, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thy ass will be taken from thee, and shall not be restored; thy flocks will be given to thine enemies, and there shall be none to help thee; ³² thy sons, and thy daughters, will be given to another nation, and thine eyes will melt in looking at them; there will be no strength in thy hand. ³³ A nation, which thou knowest not will eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured, and oppressed continually ³⁴ , and driven to madness at the sight of thine eyes, which thou shalt see. ³⁵ The Lord smite thee with a grievous boil on thy knees, and on thy legs, so that thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy feet to the crown of thy head. ³⁶ The Lord carry away thee, and thy rulers, whom thou mayst set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers knew, that thou mayst there serve other gods; stocks and stones; ³⁷ and be there for a bye word, and a proverb, and a public example to all the nations to which the Lord shall bring thee. ³⁸ There thou shalt carry out much seed into the field, and shalt bring little home, for the locust shall devour it; ³⁹ thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it; but shalt not press out wine, nor regale thyself from it; for worms shall eat it up. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have plantations of olive trees, in all thy borders, but shalt not be anointed with oil, for thine olive tree shall cast its fruit: ⁴¹ thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but shalt not have them with thee; for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the products of thy land, shall be consumed with blasting. ⁴³ The stranger who is with thee shall rise higher and higher; but thou shalt fall lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee; and thou shalt not lend to him: He shall be head; and thou shalt be tail. ⁴⁵ All these curses shall actually come upon thee, and pursue thee, and overtake thee, until he root thee out, and utterly destroy thee because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, which he commanded thee, ⁴⁶ And they shall be signs for thee, and wonders for thine offspring forever. ⁴⁷ Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness, and with a good understanding, for the abundance of all things; ⁴⁸ therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies, whom the Lord will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things, and thou shalt wear a yoke of iron on thy neck, until it utterly destroy thee. ⁴⁹ The Lord will bring against thee a nation from afar; from the extremity of the earth, with the impetuosity of an eagle; A nation whose voice thou shalt not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation of an unblushing countenance, which will not respect the person of an elder, nor compassionate a youth. ⁵¹ And it shall devour the increase of thy cattle, and the products of thy land, so as not to leave thee corn, wine, oil, herds or flocks, until it hath destroyed thee, ⁵² and wasted thee in thy cities; until they have demolished thy high, and strong walls, in which thou hast placed thy confidence, throughout thy whole land. And when he shall afflict thee in thy cities which he hath given thee; ⁵³ in thy siege, and in the affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee, thou shalt eat the offspring of thy body; the flesh of thy sons, and thy daughters, whom he gave thee. ⁵⁴ The tender, and very delicate man who is with thee, will look with an evil eye on his brother, and on the wife in his bosom, and the remaining children which may be left him, ⁵⁵ so as not to give one of them any of the flesh of his sons, which he may be eating, because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemies will afflict thee, in all thy cities. ⁵⁶ And the tender, and very delicate woman among you, whose foot never ventured to tread the ground because of her delicateness, and effeminacy will look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and on her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷ even the female infant she bore, or the male child which she may have brought forth; for on the account of the want of all things, she will eat these secretly in thy siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemy will afflict thee in thy cities. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law, which are written in this book, to fear this glorious, this wonderful name, The Lord Thy God, ⁵⁹ the Lord will make thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, wonderful beyond conception; he will make them great, and marvellous, and thy diseases sore, and lasting, ⁶⁰ and will bring upon thee all the affliction of Egypt; that grievous affliction which thou didst dread on their account, and they shall cleave to thee. ⁶¹ The Lord will also bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague, which is not written, and every one which is written in this book of the law, until he root thee out. ⁶² And you shall be left few in number, instead of being, as you were, like the stars of heaven for multitude. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, ⁶³ therefore it shall come to pass, that as the Lord delighted in you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you, in rooting you out; and you shall be removed speedily from the land to which thou art going to take possession of it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known. ⁶⁵ But even among these nations he will not give thee rest, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. Indeed the Lord will give thee there a strange trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a desponding soul, ⁶⁶ and thy life shall hang in suspence before thine eyes, and thou shalt be in terror, day and night, and have no assurance of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say; How will it be with me in the evening! And in the evening thou wilt say, How may it be with me in the morning! on account of the terror of thy heart with which thou shalt be affrighted, and on account of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will send thee back into Egypt, in ships, [by the way which I ordered thou shalt see it no more:] and thou shalt there be exposed to sale to your enemies, for bond men and bond women, and there will be no purchaser.

¹⁸ is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness? ¹⁹ Now in case any one shall hear the words of this curse, and bless himself in his heart, saying, Good luck betide me! I will walk in the error of my own heart, that the sinner may not involve the guiltless in ruin with himself. ²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ The Lord will indeed separate him, from all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book of the law. ²² And when the generations to come; your children who shall rise up after yon, and the stranger who may come from a far distant country, will say; when they shall see the plagues of that land, and the diseases thereof, which the Lord hath sent upon it; ²³ brimstone and burnt salt; when through the whole land there shall be no sowing; no natural productions, no verdure on it, a destruction like that of Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew with wrath and indignation; ²⁴ When all the nations shall say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land? What hath occasioned this great fierceness of indignation? ²⁵ Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served strange gods, which they did not know, and which he had not arranged for them, ²⁷ therefore the Lord was provoked to wrath against this land, to bring upon it all the curses which are written in the book of the law; ²⁸ and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day.

⁶ Now when Joshua had dismissed the people, and every man had gone to his inheritance to take possession of the land, ⁷ though the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who had lived long with Joshua, and who knew all the great works which the Lord had done for Israel; ⁸ yet when Joshua son of Nave, the servant of the Lord, died, at the age of a hundred and ten years, ⁹ and they had buried him in the border of his inheritance at Thamnathares, on mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas; ¹⁰ and all that generation was gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them, who knew not the Lord, nor the works which he had done for Israel, ¹¹ the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baalims. ¹² They forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, after some of the gods of the nations around, and worshipped them, and provoked the Lord to wrath. ¹³ So when they forsook him, and served Baal, and the Astartees, ¹⁴ the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers, who spoiled them, and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

³⁴ a fruitful country into barrenness: for the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

² I remembered mercy in thy youth; and love, in thy mature age, ³ that thou mightest follow the Holy Israel, saith the Lord. The Holy Israel is to the Lord the chief of his productions, all that devour him shall be guilty of trespass: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord. ⁴ Hear a word of the Lord, house of Jacob and every family of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus saith the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they have withdrawn from me; and have gone after vanities and become vain: ⁶ and did not say, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt; who led us through the wilderness; through a boundless and untrodden land; through a land without water and without fruit; through a land which no man traversed, and where no man had a fixed abode. ⁷ When I brought you to Channel that you might eat its fruits and the good things thereof; you entered in and polluted my land; and made my heritage an abomination. ⁸ The priests did not say, "Where is the Lord?" and they who studied the law did not know me; the pastors also transgressed against me; and the prophets prophesied for Baal and went after an unprofitable thing. ⁹ For this also I will emplead you; and your childrens' children I will emplead. ¹⁰ For go to the isles of Chettim and see; and send to Kedar and make strict inquiry; and see if such things have ever happened: ¹¹ have nations changed their Gods, though they are no Gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which will not profit them. ¹² At this the heaven was astonished and shocked exceedingly, saith the Lord. ¹³ Because my people did two things which are both evil: they forsook me, the fountain of living water; and hewed out for themselves broken cisterns which cannot hold water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a slave or a home born servant? Why was he for a prey? ¹⁵ Against him lions roared and uttered their voice: they have made his land a desert and his cities are demolished so as to be uninhabitable. ¹⁶ Even the sons of Memphis and Taphnas have known and derided thee. ¹⁷ Hath not thy forsaking me, saith the Lord thy God, brought these things upon thee? ¹⁸ Now therefore what hast thou to do with the way to Egypt? Is it to drink the water of Geon? Or what hast thou to do in the way to the Assyrians? Is it to drink the water of rivers? ¹⁹ Let this apostacy of thine correct thee. And thy wickedness work conviction in thee. And know and see how bitter a thing it is to forsake me, saith the Lord thy God. ²⁰ Further, I have no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God, because of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands, and said, I will not serve thee; but I will go up every high mount: and under every shady tree, I will there indulge my wantonness. ²¹ I indeed planted thee an entirely good and fruitful vine: how art thou, degenerate vine, turned to bitterness? ²² Though thou wash thyself with nitre and use much soap: thou art stained by thine iniquities in my sight, saith the Lord. ²³ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, nor have I gone after Baal? View thy ways in the grave yard, and recollect what thou hast done. In the evening her voice raised the mournful cry. ²⁴ She enlarged her ways to the waters of a desert: by the desires of her soul she was transported into raptures. She is delivered up: who will bring her back? None who seek her will weary themselves. In her humiliation they shall find her. ²⁵ Turn thy foot from a rugged way, and thy throat from thirst. But she said, I will act like one come to maturity. Because she loved strangers, therefore after them she did go.

¹ Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man testify against Jerusalem her iniquities, ³ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord to Jerusalem, Thy root and thy pedigree is from the land of Chanaan. Thy father was an Amorite and thy mother a Chettite, ⁴ and this is the history of thy birth; on the day thou wast born thy navel was not tied nor wert thou washed with water nor sprinkled with salt; nor wert thou wrapped up in swaddling bands. ⁵ But mine eye which was over thee did not spare to do for thee all these things; to compassionate thee. When thou wast cast out into the open field for thine ill shape, on the day thou wast born; ⁶ I passed by thee and saw thee polluted with thy blood and said to thee, From thy blood there is life. ⁷ Be multiplied like the grass of the field; I have betrothed thee. So thou didst increase and grow great and enter the class of chief cities. Thy breasts were fashioned and thy locks flowing. But thou wast naked and exposed to shame. ⁸ Then I passed by thee and beheld thee and lo! thou wast of a marriageable age. So I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and sware to thee and entered into covenant with thee, saith the Lord. ⁹ And when thou becamest mine I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from thee and anointed thee with oil; ¹⁰ And I clothed thee with embroidery and shod thee with purple sandals and girded thee with a cotton zone and threw around thee a mantle of tissue. ¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets round thy wrists and a chain round thy neck, ¹² and gave thee a jewel for thy nose and ear-rings for thine ears, and a crown of exquisite beauty for thy head. ¹³ So thou wast adorned with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of cotton, tissue and embroidery; and thy food was fine flour, oil and honey. And thou becamest exceeding beautiful, ¹⁴ and thy fame spread among the nations for thy beauty. Because it was perfect by reason of the comeliness and the elegance with which I adorned thee, saith the Lord; ¹⁵ thou wast vain of thy beauty and became a harlot because of thy renown: and didst pour out thy fornications upon every passenger. ¹⁶ Nay thou didst take some of thy garments and make for thyself idols of needle work; and didst commit gross fornication on them. Though thou shouldst not have gone in; nor should such a thing be done, ¹⁷ thou didst take the vessels, which were thy boast, made of my gold and of my silver, some of those which I gave thee; and didst make for thyself male images and commit fornication with them. ¹⁸ Thou didst take also thine embroidered raiment and clothe them and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them. ¹⁹ My bread also which I gave thee; the fine flour, oil and honey with which. I fed thee, these thou didst set before them for a sweet smelling savour. Nay, it came to pass, saith the Lord, ²⁰ That thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters whom thou hadst born and didst sacrifice these to them to be devoured. As if it had been a small matter to commit fornication, ²¹ thou didst slay thy children and offer them up, making them expiatory sacrifices to those images, ²² [this exceeded all thy fornication] and didst not remember thy youth when thou wast naked and bare, when though polluted with thy blood thou didst live. ²³ Nay after all these acts of iniquity, saith the Lord, ²⁴ thou didst moreover build for thyself a brothel; and erect for thyself a place of prostitution in every street; ²⁵ at the head of every street thou didst build thy brothels, and sacrifice thy beauty and prostitute thyself to every comer, and multiply thine acts of whoredom. ²⁶ When thou hadst committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours and lustful paramours; and hadst done this frequently to provoke me to wrath, ²⁷ though I stretched forth my hand against thee, and deprived thee of thy dues and delivered thee up to them who hate thee; to the daughters of the Philistines, who turned thee out of that way in which thou wast committing iniquity; ²⁸ yet thou wentest a whoring among the daughters of Assur; and even thus wast not satisfied. ²⁹ So having committed whoredom and not being satiated thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldees and even with these thou wast not satisfied. ³⁰ How can I dispose of thy daughter? saith the Lord seeing thou hast committed all these acts of an abandoned woman? And hast trebled thy fornication by thy daughters? ³¹ Having built a brothel at the head of every way, and erected a place of prostitution in every street, wast thou like a harlot collecting hire? ³² Was there ever an adulterous woman like thee receiving gifts from her husband and giving rewards to her gallants? ³³ For thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, and loaded them with gifts to come to thee from all around. ³⁴ So there was in thee a depravity beyond other women, both in thy whoredom and with regard to them who committed lewdness with thee. Thy giving gifts and no rewards being given thee are evidences of thy depravity. ³⁵ Therefore, hear harlot, a word of the Lord, ³⁶ thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast squandered thy money, therefore thy scandalous fornication shall be exposed before thy lovers; but for all thy wicked desires and for the blood of thy children whom thou hast sacrificed to them; ³⁷ for this behold I will assemble all thy lovers with whom thou hast had connexion, both all whom thou hast loved and all whom thou hatedst, and I will gather against thee them from all around; and lay open thy wickedness before them, that they may see all thy shame. ³⁸ And I will punish thee with the punishment of an adulteress, and involve thee in the blood of wrath and jealousy; ³⁹ and deliver thee up into their hands. And they shall demolish thy brothel, and pull down thy place of prostitution, and strip thee of thy clothing and seize thy fair jewels; and when they shall have left thee naked and exposed to shame, ⁴⁰ then crowds shall be brought against thee, who shall stone thee with stones and hack thee with their swords; ⁴¹ and they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute vengeance on thee in the sight of many women. So will I turn thee from whoredom and no more give thee gifts. ⁴² Then I will cause my wrath against thee to abate, and my jealousy shall be removed from thee, and I will be quiet and no more care for thee. ⁴³ Because thou hast not remembered thy youth and hast grieved me with all these things; therefore behold I have requited thy ways on thy head, saith the Lord. ⁴⁴ Thou indeed hast so added impiety to all thy transgressions that all these things have occasioned the parable which people use against thee, saying, "As was the mother so is the daughter." ⁴⁵ Thou art indeed a very daughter of thy mother who abandoned her husband and her children: and the sisters of thy brothers are they who abandoned their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Chettite and your father an Amorite, ⁴⁶ your eldest sister is Samaria; she and her daughters who live on thy left; and your youngest sister who liveth on thy right is Sodom with her daughters. ⁴⁷ But thou hast not walked even in their ways, nor done according to their transgressions in a small degree. Thou hast surpassed them in all thy ways. ⁴⁸ As I live, saith the Lord, Sodom herself and her daughters did not do as thou and thy daughters have done. ⁴⁹ But this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; Pride. Through fulness of bread and prosperity she and her daughters grew wanton. There was this also in her and her daughters that they did not assist the distressed and the needy; ⁵⁰ but were haughty and committed iniquities in my sight; therefore I destroyed them. ⁵¹ In my view Samaria also did not commit half thy crimes. Thou indeed hast multiplied thine iniquities more than they, and justified thy sisters by all thine iniquities which thou hast committed. ⁵² Thou therefore shalt bear thy punishment. Inasmuch as thou hast corrupted thy sisters by thy sins, which thou hast committed in a more aggravated degree than they, and made them righteous in comparison of thee; be thou therefore confounded and bear thy dishonour, for having justified thy sisters. ⁵³ When I turn back their apostacies; the apostacy of Sodom and her daughters, and turn back the apostacy of Samaria and her daughters, I will turn ⁵⁴ back also thine apostacy in the midst of them; that thou mayst bear thy punishment and be dishonoured for all that thou hast ⁵⁵ done to provoke me to anger. And when thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored to their former state then thou and thy daughters shall be restored to your former state. ⁵⁶ Now was not thy sister Sodom a by word in thy mouth in the days of thy pride, ⁵⁷ before thy wickedness was discovered; in the same manner as thou art now the scoff of the daughters of Syria and of all around her and of all the daughters of the foreign tribes around thee? ⁵⁸ Thou hast borne thy wickedness and thy transgressions, saith the Lord. ⁵⁹ Thus saith the Lord, I will deal with thee as thou hast done. As thou hast slighted these things that thou mightest transgress my covenant, ⁶⁰ when I remember my covenant made with thee in the days of thy youth and reestablish for thee an everlasting covenant; ⁶¹ then thou wilt recollect thy way and be ashamed, when thou hast again received thy sisters; the elder and the younger. For I will give them to thee to be part of thy family, but not by thy covenant. ⁶² And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, ⁶³ that thou mayst remember and be ashamed, and never more be able to open thy mouth, because of thy confusion when I make a complete atonement for thee according to all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.

¹ Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Now, son of man, if thou will judge this bloody city, then point out to it all its iniquities ³ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, city, which sheddest blood in the midst of thee, to cause thy time to come; and which makest idols against thyself to pollute thyself. ⁴ In the blood which thou hast shed, thou art fallen: and with thine idols, which thou hast made, thou art defiled: and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the term of thy years; therefore I have made thee a scoff to the nations, and a mocking stock to all the countries; ⁵ to those near and to those far from thee; and they shall insult thee, thou impure, infamous and abandoned city. ⁶ Behold in thee the princes of the house of Israel banded themselves, every one with his relations, that they might shed blood. ⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan; ⁸ and in thee they despised my holy things and profaned my sabbaths. ⁹ In thee men became robbers, that in thee they might shed blood. And they ate upon the mountains near thee; and in the midst of thee committed abominable things. ¹⁰ In thee they uncovered the nakedness of a father; and in thee humbled a woman in a state of separation. ¹¹ In thee one debauched his neighbour's wife; another wantonly defiled his daughter in law; and another humbled his sister, his father's daughter. ¹² In thee they received bribes to shed blood. In thee they took interest and usury, and thou hast completed thy wickedness by oppression. And me thou hast forgotten, saith the Lord. ¹³ Now when I lay my hand on thee to destroy thee, for what thou hast done and for the blood which hath been shed in thee; ¹⁴ will thy heart endure? Will thy hands be strong in the day I deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken and I will perform. ¹⁵ I will scatter thee among the nations and disperse thee through the countries, and when thine impurity shall be consumed out of thee, ¹⁶ I will take possession of thee in the sight of all the nations; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁷ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ son of man, Behold to me the house of Israel are all become mixed with brass and iron and tin and lead with a mixture of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Because you are become one mass, I will therefore gather you into the midst of Jerusalem: ²⁰ as silver and brass and iron and tin and lead are put in a furnace, that the fire may be blown on it and that it may be melted; So will I take you in my wrath and gather you and melt you. ²¹ And I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath and you shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace; so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you. ²³ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying;

¹ According to Ephraim's own account he received rules of rectitude by Israel, but he attributed them to Baal and incurred death.

⁴ A perverse heart hath not cleaved to me. When the wicked withdrew from me; I no more acknowledged him. ⁵ Him, who privily slandered his neighbour, I expelled. With one of a haughty eye and unsatiable heart I would not eat. ⁶ Mine eyes have been on the faithful of the land; that they might dwell with me. He who walked in a perfect way, hath been employed in my service. ⁷ He who practised haughtiness found no abode in my family. He who spoke unjustly was not right in mine eyes. ⁸ I took the earliest occasion to destroy all the sinners of the land; to root out of the city of the Lord all the workers of iniquity.

⁵ A prudent son is safe from heat; but a transgressing son is blasted in harvest.

² A wise servant will rule over foolish masters; and divide portions among brothers.

¹² The threat of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but his favour is like dew on the grass. ¹³ A foolish son is a shame to a father. vows for the hire of a harlot are not pure.

²⁶ He who bringeth dishonour on a father and causeth his mother to flee; shall be exposed to shame and shall be reproached.

⁸ When a righteous king sitteth on a throne, nothing that is evil can stand his eyes.

²⁶ A wise king is a winnower of the wicked; and he will bring a wheel over them.

¹¹ The Lord loveth holy hearts; and all the unspotted are acceptable to him. A king feedeth with his lips;

⁵ Slay the wicked from the presence of a king and his throne will be established in righteousness.

¹² When a king hearkeneth to falsehood, all under him are transgressors.

⁴⁵ Who is indeed the faithful and prudent servant, whom his lord hath set over his household to give them their food in due season. ⁴⁶ Happy that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find thus employed. ⁴⁷ Verily I say to you, he will set him over all his estate. ⁴⁸ But if that servant being wicked should say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; ⁴⁹ and begin to beat his fellow tenants, and to eat and to drink with drunkards; ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come on a day he least expecteth, and at an hour of which he is not aware ⁵¹ and will scourge him in the severest manner and assign him his portion with the hypocrites. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

²¹ and his master said to him; "Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much greater; enter into the joy of thy master:"

²³ his master said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much greater, enter thou into the joy of thy master:

⁴² Thereupon the Lord said, Who is indeed the faithful and prudent steward, whom his master shall have set over his family to dispense regularly the stated allowance of food? ⁴³ Happy is that servant, whom his master, when he cometh, shall find thus employed. ⁴⁴ Verily I say to you, he will appoint him overseer of all his estate. ⁴⁵ But should that servant say in his heart, My master delayeth his coming, and begin to beat the men servants, and maid servants, and to eat and drink and carouse; ⁴⁶ the master of that servant will come on a day when he doth not expect him, and in an hour he is not aware of, and will scourge him in the severest manner, and assign him his portion with the unfaithful. ⁴⁷ Now that servant who knew his master's will, and did not keep himself ready, nor act agreeably to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; ⁴⁸ but he who did not know it, and did things deserving chastisement, shall be beaten with few. For to whom much is given, of him much will be required. And the more a man is entrusted with, the more will be demanded from him.