Proverbs 15 Cross References - YLT

¹ A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.
² The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.
³ In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.
⁴ A healed tongue is a tree of life, And perverseness in it—a breach in the spirit.
⁵ A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
⁶ In the house of the righteous is abundant strength, And in the increase of the wicked—trouble.
⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools is not right.
⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.
⁹ An abomination to Jehovah is the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.
¹⁰ Chastisement is grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.
¹¹ Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah, Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.
¹² A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.
¹³ A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.
¹⁴ The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.
¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are evil, And gladness of heart is a perpetual banquet.
¹⁶ Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it. ¹⁷ Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
¹⁸ A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.
¹⁹ The way of the slothful is as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.
²⁰ A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.
²¹ Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth his going.
²² Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.
²³ Joy is to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season—how good!
²⁴ A path of life is on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.
²⁵ The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.
²⁶ An abomination to Jehovah are thoughts of wickedness, And pure are sayings of pleasantness.
²⁷ A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.
²⁸ The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.
²⁹ Far is Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.
³⁰ The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.
³¹ An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.
³² Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.
³³ The fear of Jehovah is the instruction of wisdom, And before honour is humility!

¹ And the men of Ephraim say unto him, `What is this thing thou hast done to us—not to call for us when thou didst go to fight with Midian?' and they strive with him severely; <sup>2</sup> and he saith unto them, `What have I done now like you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the harvest of Abi-Ezer? ³ Into your hand hath God given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?' Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.

³ and I see that thou art not a saviour, and I put my life in my hand, and pass over unto the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah giveth them into my hand—and why have ye come up unto me this day to fight against me?' ⁴ And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fighteth with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead smite Ephraim, because they said, `Fugitives of Ephraim are ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim—in the midst of Manasseh.' <sup>5</sup> And Gilead captureth the passages of the Jordan to Ephraim, and it hath been, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim say, `Let me pass over,' and the men of Gilead say to him, `An Ephramite thou?' and he saith, `No;' ⁶ that they say to him, `Say, I pray thee, Shibboleth;' and he saith, `Sibboleth,' and is not prepared to speak right—and they seize him, and slaughter him at the passages of the Jordan, and there fall at that time, of Ephraim, forty and two chiefs.

¹⁰ And Nabal answereth the servants of David and saith, `Who is David, and who the son of Jesse? to-day have servants been multiplied who are breaking away each from his master; <sup>11</sup> and I have taken my bread, and my water, and my flesh, which I slaughtered for my shearers, and have given it to men whom I have not known whence they are!'
<sup>12</sup> And the young men of David turn on their way, and turn back, and come in, and declare to him according to all these words. <sup>13</sup> And David saith to his men, `Gird ye on each his sword;' and they gird on each his sword, and David also girdeth on his sword, and there go up after David about four hundred men, and two hundred have remained by the vessels.

²¹ And David said, `Only, in vain I have kept all that this one hath in the wilderness, and nothing hath been looked after of all that he hath, and he turneth back to me evil for good; <sup>22</sup> thus doth God do to the enemies of David, and thus He doth add, if I leave of all that he hath till the light of the morning—of those sitting on the wall.' <sup>23</sup> And Abigail seeth David, and hasteth and cometh down from off the ass, and falleth before David on her face, and boweth herself to the earth, <sup>24</sup> and falleth at his feet and saith, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray thee, thy handmaid speak in thine ear, and hear the words of thy handmaid. ²⁵ `Let not, I pray thee, my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name is so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I, thine handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom thou didst send; <sup>26</sup> and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee—now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord. <sup>27</sup> `And, now, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord—it hath been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord. ²⁸ `Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee all thy days. <sup>29</sup> And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling. <sup>30</sup> `And it hath been, when Jehovah doth to my lord according to all the good which He hath spoken concerning thee, and appointed thee for leader over Israel, ³¹ that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord—either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.'
³² And David saith to Abigail, `Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me, ³³ and blessed is thy discretion, and blessed art thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

⁴³ And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

¹³ And the king answereth the people sharply, and forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, ¹⁴ and speaketh unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I—I chastise you with scorpions;' <sup>15</sup> and the king hearkened not unto the people, for the revolution was from Jehovah, in order to establish His word that Jehovah spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.
<sup>16</sup> And all Israel see that the king hath not hearkened unto them, and the people send the king back word, saying, `What portion have we in David? yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to thy tents, O Israel; now see thy house, O David!' and Israel goeth to its tents.

¹² Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

¹⁸ A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

¹⁵ By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.

²⁵ Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

²² An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

¹ To the Overseer. —`On the Lilies.' —By sons of Korah. —An Instruction. —A song of loves. My heart hath indited a good thing, I am telling my works to a king, My tongue is the pen of a speedy writer.

⁷ Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

²³ A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.

¹⁶ Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.

²³ Joy is to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season—how good!

²⁸ The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.

²³ The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning,

¹¹ Apples of gold in imagery of silver, Is the word spoken at its fit times. ¹² A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, Is the wise reprover to an attentive ear.

¹² Words of the mouth of the wise are gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up. ¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, And the latter end of his mouth Is mischievous madness.

⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

⁹ for Jehovah—His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong for a people whose heart is perfect towards Him; thou hast been foolish concerning this, because—henceforth there are with thee wars.'

⁴ Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

²¹ For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see. ²² There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

²¹ For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

¹⁷ For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

²⁴ Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Jehovah, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁹ Great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Thine eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

¹³ and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes—with whom is our reckoning.

²² And Jehovah God saith, `Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' — ²³ Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken; ²⁴ yea, he casteth out the man, and causeth to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flame of the sword which is turning itself round to guard the way of the tree of life.

² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. ³ Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. ⁴ Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

²² For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.

¹⁸ A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

²⁴ Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

⁸ The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?

²² The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness—and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

³ if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words—those of our Lord Jesus Christ—and to the teaching according to piety,

⁷ He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming—I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

²³ and he saith to them, `Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people—these! ²⁴ Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. — ²⁵ If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against Jehovah a man sin, who doth pray for him?' and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Jehovah hath delighted to put them to death.

¹ And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Absalom prepareth for himself a chariot, and horses, and fifty men are running before him; ² and Absalom hath risen early, and stood by the side of the way of the gate, and it cometh to pass, every man who hath a pleading to come unto the king for judgment, that Absalom calleth unto him, and saith, `Of what city art thou?' and he saith, `Of one of the tribes of Israel is thy servant.' ³ And Absalom saith unto him, `See, thy matters are good and straightforward—and there is none hearkening to thee from the king.' <sup>4</sup> And Absalom saith, `Who doth make me a judge in the land, that unto me doth come every man who hath a plea and judgment? —then I have declared him righteous.' ⁵ And it hath come to pass, in the drawing nearing of any one to bow himself to him, that he hath put forth his hand, and laid hold on him, and given a kiss to him; ⁶ and Absalom doth according to this thing to all Israel who come in for judgment unto the king, and Absalom stealeth the heart of the men of Israel.

¹¹ `Now, my son, Jehovah is with thee, and thou hast prospered, and hast built the house of Jehovah thy God, as He spake concerning thee. ¹² Only, Jehovah give to thee wisdom and understanding, and charge thee concerning Israel, even to keep the law of Jehovah thy God; ¹³ then thou dost prosper, if thou dost observe to do the statutes and the judgments that Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel; be strong and courageous; do not fear, nor be cast down.

⁹ `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.

²⁰ And David saith to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Jehovah God, my God, is with thee; He doth not fail thee, nor forsake thee, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.

⁵ The righteous doth beat me in kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer is about their vexations.

²³ Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

¹ Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

¹ A wise son—the instruction of a father, And a scorner—he hath not heard rebuke.

¹⁸ Whoso is refusing instruction—poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

³¹ An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.
³² Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

²⁰ Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

¹² A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, Is the wise reprover to an attentive ear.

¹³ this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁵ these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

¹⁹ For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ²⁰ For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. ²¹ There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. ²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

¹⁶ Better is the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

³ Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

²¹ To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.

²² The blessing of Jehovah—it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

²² A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

¹⁶ Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.

⁸ Better is a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.

²⁰ A treasure to be desired, and oil, Is in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

⁶ `Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'

¹⁰ Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity. ¹¹ In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes? ¹² Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep. ¹³ There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil. ¹⁴ And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you; ² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

² Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

¹³ I teach transgressors Thy ways, And sinners unto Thee do return.
¹⁴ Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness. ¹⁵ O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

¹⁵ My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers. ¹⁶ I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness—Thine only. ¹⁷ God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. ¹⁸ And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

² I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old, ³ That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us. ⁴ We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done. ⁵ And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons. ⁶ So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

¹³ With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous is chosen silver, The heart of the wicked—as a little thing. ²¹ The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

⁹ And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out—he made right many similes. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.

¹¹ Thy lips drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk are under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments Is as the fragrance of Lebanon.

²⁷ that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.

³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things—being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

¹⁸ And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; ¹⁹ having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them—to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days—till the full end of the age.'

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

⁹ And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; ¹⁰ because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

¹⁴ How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching? ¹⁵ and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!' <sup>16</sup> But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?' ¹⁷ so then the faith is by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

¹⁸ for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed, ¹⁹ in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ; ²⁰ and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named—that upon another's foundation I might not build— ²¹ but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

² and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

¹⁷ `And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

¹ A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear to my prayer, without lips of deceit.

²⁹ Far is Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.

⁹ Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

¹ Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

¹⁴ My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice is sweet, and thy appearance comely.

¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah, ¹¹ `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired. ¹² When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts? ¹³ Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense—an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity—and a restraint! ¹⁴ Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing. ¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

⁸ For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.

³ Whoso slaughtereth the ox smiteth a man, Whoso sacrificeth the lamb beheadeth a dog, Whoso is bringing up a present—The blood of a sow, Whoso is making mention of frankincense, Is blessing iniquity. Yea, they have fixed on their own ways, And in their abominations their soul hath delighted.

²⁰ Why is this to Me? frankincense from Sheba cometh, And the sweet cane from a land afar off, Your burnt-offerings are not for acceptance, And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me.

²¹ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh. ²² For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice, ²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye—ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

²¹ I have hated—I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints. ²² For though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not.

²⁴ God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

⁸ Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous, ⁹ Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

⁴ Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked is sin.

⁸ Froward is the way of a man who is vile, And the pure—upright is his work.

²¹ Whoso is pursuing righteousness and kindness, Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

⁷ The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.

¹ Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock—ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit—ye have been digged.

⁷ Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

⁴ `And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated—

³ And we know—we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain—sprinkling earth.'

¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

²² and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

¹⁷ and it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, `Art thou he—the troubler of Israel?'

²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found—because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

⁸ And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet—one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil—Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'

³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

¹⁷ A traveller to life is he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

¹ Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.

³⁵ `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!'

⁵ Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick. ⁶ From the sole of the foot—unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.

¹³ In thine uncleanness is wickedness, Because I have cleansed thee, And thou hast not been cleansed, From thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on thee. ¹⁴ I, Jehovah, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done it, I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

⁷ the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth—for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

³⁰ then Thou dost hear from the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast given to each according to all his ways (because Thou knowest his heart, for Thou—Thou only—hast known the heart of the sons of men),

⁶ Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

⁹ Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

²¹ Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

⁸ If I ascend the heavens—there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

²⁰ Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

¹⁰ I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

²⁴ and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men, ²⁵ and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

¹⁸ and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

²³ and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you—to each—according to your works.

⁷ And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Still—one man to seek Jehovah from him, and I—I have hated him, for he is not prophesying concerning me of good, but all his days of evil, he is Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'

¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

⁷ The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it—shame, And a reprover of the wicked—his blemish. ⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

¹⁰ Chastisement is grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.

¹⁰ They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

¹⁸ he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; ²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; ²¹ but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

³ for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers—itching in the hearing,

² and the king saith to me, `Wherefore is thy face sad, and thou not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;' and I fear very much,

²⁵ Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are evil, And gladness of heart is a perpetual banquet.

²² A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

¹ `Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

⁷ so that, on the contrary, it is rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

¹⁰ for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

⁶ And Solomon saith, `Thou hast done with Thy servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before Thee in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee, and Thou dost keep for him this great kindness, and dost give to him a son sitting on his throne, as at this day. <sup>7</sup> And now, O Jehovah my God, Thou hast caused thy servant to reign instead of David my father; and I am a little child, I do not know to go out and to come in; <sup>8</sup> and Thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude, <sup>9</sup> and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?' <sup>10</sup> And the thing is good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon hath asked this thing, <sup>11</sup> and God saith unto him, `Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment, ¹² lo, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given to thee a heart, wise and understanding, that like thee there hath not been before thee, and after thee there doth not arise like thee;

⁹⁷ Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.

¹⁰⁰ Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

⁵ (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)

⁹ Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

¹⁵ The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

¹⁰ Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

²⁰ Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'

¹ Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.

¹¹ and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

¹⁸ and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

³⁵ and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For—I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

⁹ And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

⁷ For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, ⁹ For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

¹³ A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.

²² A fountain of life is understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.

²⁵ And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

¹¹ And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

¹² in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

⁵ because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

¹⁰ as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

⁶ in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, ⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice—exulting;

⁶ Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

¹⁰ And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour, ¹¹ and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

¹⁸ And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me. ¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity. ²⁰ And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun. ²¹ For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it—his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil. ²² For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun? ²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also is vanity.

¹⁰ Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity. ¹¹ In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes? ¹² Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

⁶ but it is great gain—the piety with contentment;

¹ A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren—even together! ² As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes, ³ As dew of Hermon—That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing—Life unto the age!

¹ Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

¹⁹ Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.

⁴ `Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;

²³ and having brought the fatted calf, kill it, and having eaten, we may be merry,

¹ If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

¹⁶ and we—we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

⁸ And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men—brethren. ⁹ Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'

²⁴ and falleth at his feet and saith, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray thee, thy handmaid speak in thine ear, and hear the words of thy handmaid. <sup>25</sup> `Let not, I pray thee, my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name is so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I, thine handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom thou didst send; ²⁶ and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee—now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord. ²⁷ `And, now, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord—it hath been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord. <sup>28</sup> `Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee all thy days. ²⁹ And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling. ³⁰ `And it hath been, when Jehovah doth to my lord according to all the good which He hath spoken concerning thee, and appointed thee for leader over Israel, <sup>31</sup> that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord—either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.'
<sup>32</sup> And David saith to Abigail, `Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me, ³³ and blessed is thy discretion, and blessed art thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself. ³⁴ And yet, Jehovah liveth, God of Israel, who hath kept me back from doing evil with thee, for unless thou hadst hasted, and dost come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall.' ³⁵ And David receiveth from her hand that which she hath brought to him, and to her he hath said, `Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and accept thy face.'
<sup>36</sup> And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning. <sup>37</sup> And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone. <sup>38</sup> And it cometh to pass, in about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth, <sup>39</sup> and David heareth that Nabal is dead, and saith, `Blessed is Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;' and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife. ⁴⁰ And the servants of David come in unto Abigail at Carmel, and speak unto her, saying, `David hath sent us unto thee to take thee to him for a wife.' <sup>41</sup> And she riseth and boweth herself—face to the earth—and saith, `Lo, thy handmaid is for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.' ⁴² And Abigail hasteth and riseth, and rideth on the ass; and five of her young women who are going at her feet; and she goeth after the messengers of David, and is to him for a wife. ⁴³ And Ahinoam hath David taken from Jezreel, and they are—even both of them—to him for wives; ⁴⁴ and Saul gave Michal his daughter, wife to David, to Phalti son of Laish, who is of Gallim.

⁴³ And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

¹ A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

²⁸ A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

²¹ Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.

⁹ `Happy the peacemakers—because they shall be called Sons of God.

¹ And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, ² and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, `It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables; ³ look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity, ⁴ and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.' ⁵ And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, ²⁰ for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; ¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter;

¹ And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night; ² and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died! ³ and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?'

⁷ and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we have passed over to spy it, is a very very good land; ⁸ if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey; ⁹ only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they are; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah is with us; fear them not.'

⁸ O Jehovah, lead me in Thy righteousness, Because of those observing me, Make straight before me Thy way,

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

¹² Who is this—the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.

¹¹ Shew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

⁶ In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

⁹ All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.

⁵ Thorns—snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.'

²¹ And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This is the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

⁸ And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way—even fools err not.

¹⁴ And he hath said, `Raise up, raise up, prepare a way, Lift a stumbling-block out of the way of My people.'

¹² `Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

³ `Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

⁴⁸ and also thus hath the king said, Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath given to-day one sitting on my throne, and mine eyes seeing.'

⁹ and now, acquit him not, for a wise man thou art, and thou hast known that which thou dost to him, and hast brought down his old age with blood to Sheol.'

⁷ And it cometh to pass at Hiram's hearing the words of Solomon, that he rejoiceth exceedingly, and saith, `Blessed is Jehovah to-day, who hath given to David a wise son over this numerous people.'

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine, ¹⁶ And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

²² Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

³ A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

¹⁷ An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

²² and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

²⁸ And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise is standing for ever!

²³ To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

¹² Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

⁹ Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright—a pleasing thing.

¹⁶ The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

¹⁸ As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, ¹⁹ So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'

¹⁵ See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

¹⁴ Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

¹⁸ Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.

⁶ For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.

¹⁴ From the fruit of the mouth is one satisfied with good, And the deed of man's hands returneth to him.

¹³ The delight of kings are righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,

²⁶ Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words.

¹ To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

¹¹ Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

²⁴ And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!

¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

²⁷ The ways of Sheol—her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

¹⁴ Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

⁸ And unto this people thou dost say, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am setting before you the way of life, And the way of death!

¹⁴ how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

⁶ Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

²⁰ For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await—the Lord Jesus Christ—

¹ If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, ² the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

¹⁷ for Jehovah your God—He is God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe; ¹⁸ He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

¹⁴ `Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low. ¹² See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place. ¹³ Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.

¹ To the Overseer. —An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.

⁵ Also—God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁵ Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation. ⁶ God—causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only—the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

⁶ For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

⁹ Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

⁷ Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.

¹¹ The house of the wicked is destroyed, And the tent of the upright flourisheth.

¹⁰ Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

¹² For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

²⁰ and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away from him,

²⁷ religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation—unspotted to keep himself from the world.

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

¹⁴ Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment. ³¹ The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

¹⁶ These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. ¹⁷ Eyes high—tongues false—And hands shedding innocent blood— ¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil— ¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

⁹ The thought of folly is sin, And an abomination to man is a scorner.

¹⁴ Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things—being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak. <sup>35</sup> The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things. <sup>36</sup> `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; ³⁷ for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

¹⁹ for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

²¹ `And thou—thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

⁸ `And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

²⁶ and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house—or thou hast been devoted like it; —thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it is devoted.

¹⁹ Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

¹⁸ and surely ye have kept from the devoted thing, lest ye devote yourselves, and have taken from the devoted thing, and have made the camp of Israel become a devoted thing, and have troubled it;

¹¹ Israel hath sinned, and also they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and also taken of the devoted thing, and also stolen, and also deceived, and also put it among their vessels, ¹² and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you—if ye destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.

²⁴ And Joshua taketh Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, and the robe, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his ox, and his ass, and his flock, and his tent, and all that he hath, and all Israel with him, and they cause them to go up the valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua saith, `What! thou hast troubled us! —Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,

³ and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.
⁴ And all the elders of Israel gather themselves together, and come in unto Samuel to Ramath, ⁵ and say unto him, `Lo, thou hast become aged, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations.'

²⁷ yea, the leprosy of Naaman doth cleave to thee, and to thy seed, —to the age;' and he goeth out from before him—leprous as snow.

¹⁹ So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

¹⁹ Rightly is righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil—for his own death.

²⁹ Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant is the fool to the wise of heart.

²¹ An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

¹⁶ A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.

⁴ A king by judgment establisheth a land, And one receiving gifts throweth it down.

⁸ Woe to those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land! ⁹ By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant! ¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

¹⁵ Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil, ¹⁶ He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

¹¹ A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end—he is a fool.

⁹ Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil, ¹⁰ Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul. ¹¹ For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

³ And he saith unto me, `This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent. <sup>4</sup> `I have brought it out—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts—and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

²³ And the king saith, `This one saith, This is my son, the living, and thy son is the dead; and that one saith, Nay, but thy son is the dead, and my son the living.' <sup>24</sup> And the king saith, `Take for me a sword;' and they bring the sword before the king, ²⁵ and the king saith, `Cut the living child into two, and give the half to the one, and the half to the other.' <sup>26</sup> And the woman whose son is the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this one saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine—cut it .' <sup>27</sup> And the king answereth and saith, `Give ye to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she is its mother.' ²⁸ And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king hath judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God is in his heart, to do judgment.

¹⁹ In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

² The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

¹¹ A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

²⁰ Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

² Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.

⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

¹² Words of the mouth of the wise are gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up. ¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, And the latter end of his mouth Is mischievous madness. ¹⁴ And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

¹⁰ for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers—especially they of the circumcision— ¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. ⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, ⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

¹⁵ and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

¹⁸ for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh—lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

¹ Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

⁴¹ They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

¹⁵ The eyes of Jehovah are unto the righteous, And His ears unto their cry. ¹⁶ (The face of Jehovah is on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.) ¹⁷ They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.

¹⁸ Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear. ¹⁹ But God hath heard, He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁷ For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

¹⁸ Near is Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth. ¹⁹ The desire of those fearing Him He doth, And their cry He heareth, and saveth them.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

⁸ For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, —an affirmation of Jehovah, ⁹ For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

⁴⁶ And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

³¹ and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;

²⁶ And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth us, we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable, ²⁷ and He who is searching the hearts hath known what is the mind of the Spirit, because according to God he doth intercede for saints.

¹² that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world; ¹³ and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

¹⁶ Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man; ¹⁷ Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray—not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months; ¹⁸ and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

¹² because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears—to their supplication, and the face of the Lord is upon those doing evil;'

⁸ `And now, as a small moment hath grace been from Jehovah our God, to leave to us an escape, and to give to us a nail in His holy place, by our God's enlightening our eyes, and by giving us a little quickening in our servitude;

¹⁵ O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.

⁸ Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²⁵ As cold waters for a weary soul, So is a good report from a far country.

⁷ Sweet also is the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.

¹¹ And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people— <sup>11</sup> because there was born to you to-day a Saviour—who is Christ the Lord—in the city of David, <sup>12</sup> and this is to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.' <sup>13</sup> And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, <sup>14</sup> `Glory in the highest to God, and upon earth peace, among men—good will.' ¹⁵ And it came to pass, when the messengers were gone away from them to the heavens, that the men, the shepherds, said unto one another, `We may go over indeed unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that hath come to pass, that the Lord did make known to us.' ¹⁶ And they came, having hasted, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger, ¹⁷ and having seen, they made known abroad concerning the saying spoken to them concerning the child. ¹⁸ And all who heard, did wonder concerning the things spoken by the shepherds unto them; ¹⁹ and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

²³ and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it is the Lamb;

⁵ and night shall not be there, and they have no need of a lamp and light of a sun, because the Lord God doth give them light, and they shall reign—to the ages of the ages.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee. ⁹ Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

²⁰ Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

⁵ A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David—that are stedfast.

³ already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you; ⁴ remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but—that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

¹⁸ `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious—he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them—

²⁰ and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son—this one—is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice—a glutton and drunkard;

¹⁷ Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

⁷ Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, ²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. ²⁶ I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, ²⁷ When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. ²⁸ Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. ²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. ³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, ³¹ And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. ³² For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. ³³ And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'

¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, ¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, ¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not. ³⁴ O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance. ³⁵ For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah. ³⁶ And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

¹⁴ The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.

²¹ Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth his going.

¹⁶ Why is this—a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?

¹ A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

⁵ Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.

³ Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

²⁴ `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; <sup>25</sup> and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock. <sup>26</sup> `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

¹⁵ looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

²² and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

¹¹ Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour is humility.

⁶ Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not. ⁷ For better that he hath said to thee, `Come thou up hither,' Than that he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

²³ The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁵ For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God, ⁷ but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, ⁸ and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death—death even of a cross, ⁹ wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁰ be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.