Proverbs 14:27 Cross References - Thomson

²⁷ The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causeth to decline from the snare of death.

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 [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;]

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.