Proverbs 16 Cross References - YLT

¹ Of man are arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.
² All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.
³ Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,
⁴ All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked worketh for a day of evil.
⁵ An abomination to Jehovah is every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.
⁶ In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.
⁷ When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.
⁸ Better is a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.
⁹ The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.
¹⁰ An oath is on the lips of a king, In judgment his mouth trespasseth not.
¹¹ A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
¹² An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.
¹³ The delight of kings are righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,
¹⁴ The fury of a king is messengers of death, And a wise man pacifieth it. ¹⁵ In the light of a king's face is life, And his good-will is as a cloud of the latter rain.
¹⁶ To get wisdom—how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!
¹⁷ A highway of the upright is, `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.
<sup>18</sup> Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling—a haughty spirit.'
<sup>19</sup> Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.
<sup>20</sup> The wise in any matter findeth good, And whoso is trusting in Jehovah, O his happiness.
<sup>21</sup> To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.
²² A fountain of life is understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.
²³ The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning,
²⁴ Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
²⁵ There is a way right before a man, And its latter end—ways of death.
²⁶ A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused him to bend over it.
²⁷ A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips—as a burning fire. ²⁸ A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
²⁹ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good. ³⁰ Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.
³¹ A crown of beauty are grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.
³² Better is the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.
³³ Into the centre is the lot cast, And from Jehovah is all its judgment!

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto him, `Who appointed a mouth for man? or who appointeth the dumb, or deaf, or open, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah? ¹² and now, go, and I—I am with thy mouth, and have directed thee that which thou speakest;'

¹⁵ and thou hast spoken unto him, and hast set the words in his mouth, and I—I am with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and have directed you that which ye do;

³¹ And it cometh to pass at the heads of the charioteers seeing Jehoshaphat, that they have said, `The king of Israel he is,' and they turn round against him to fight, and Jehoshaphat crieth out, and Jehovah hath helped him, and God enticeth them from him,

²⁷ Blessed is Jehovah, God of our fathers, who hath given such a thing as this in the heart of the king, to beautify the house of Jehovah that is in Jerusalem,

¹¹ `I beseech Thee, O Lord, let, I pray Thee, Thine ear be attentive unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto the prayer of Thy servants, those delighting to fear Thy Name; and give prosperity, I pray Thee, to Thy servant to-day, and give him for mercies before this man;' and I have been butler to the king.

¹⁷ The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

³⁶ Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

⁹ The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

²¹ Many are the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.

²⁴ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, And man—how understandeth he his way?

¹ Rivulets of waters is the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto me, `Do not say, I am a youth, for to all to whom I send thee thou goest, and all that I command thee thou speakest. <sup>8</sup> Be not afraid of their faces, for with thee am I to deliver thee, —an affirmation of Jehovah.' <sup>9</sup> And Jehovah putteth forth His hand, and striketh against my mouth, and Jehovah saith unto me, `Lo, I have put my words in thy mouth.

²³ I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man is his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them: ⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;

²⁶ And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

¹⁹ `And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak; ²⁰ for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you.

¹¹ `And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say, ¹² for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth you to say.'

¹⁴ `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply, ¹⁵ for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

¹⁶ And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,

¹³ for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

¹⁶ Be not led astray, my brethren beloved; ¹⁷ every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning; ¹⁸ having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

¹³ And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, `Blessed art thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.' <sup>14</sup> And Samuel saith, `And what is the noise of this flock in mine ears—and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?'

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.'

² For he made it smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

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

²⁵ There is a way right before a man, And its latter end—ways of death.

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

¹² When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

¹² A generation—pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

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

²² But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ²³ How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

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.

²⁷ Weighed—Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

⁹ And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: ¹⁰ `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer; ¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

⁷ What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: ⁸ `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

¹⁸ `And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

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.

⁸ Yet I—I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

²⁸ And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone.

⁴ And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart. ⁵ Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,

²² Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

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

⁵ Because that Aram counselled against thee evil, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying: ⁶ We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst—The son of Tabeal. ⁷ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!

²⁵ `Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? <sup>26</sup> look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they? <sup>27</sup> `And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit? ²⁸ and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin; ²⁹ and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. ³⁰ `And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe—not much more you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? ³² for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these; ³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you. ³⁴ Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

²² And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

⁶ for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

⁷ all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

⁷ Every one who is called by My name, Even for My honour I have created him, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.

²¹ This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.

²² And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

³⁶ because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are the all things; to Him is the glory—to the ages. Amen.

⁸ and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, —to which also they were set;

³ and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

¹¹ `Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou—Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.'

⁷ `Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

¹² See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

¹⁶ These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. ¹⁷ Eyes high—tongues false—And hands shedding innocent blood—

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

²¹ Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

⁶ and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

¹¹ And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

⁹ And I say, `Not good is the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

¹⁵ the former governors who are before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people—and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil. ² And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters, ³ and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.
⁴ And his sons have gone and made a banquet—the house of each in his day—and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them; ⁵ and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings—the number of them all—for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.
<sup>6</sup> And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst. <sup>7</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Whence comest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down on it.' <sup>8</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

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

¹⁰ Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,

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

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

²⁸ Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne.

²⁷ `Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.

¹⁸ Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He—He delighteth in kindness. ¹⁹ He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins. ²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

⁴¹ But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

² every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

⁹ and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

¹ Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

²¹ subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

²² Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

⁴¹ And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, `The days of mourning for my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'

⁶ And the messengers turn back unto Jacob, saying, `We came in unto thy brother, unto Esau, and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him;' ⁷ and Jacob feareth exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divideth the people who are with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps,

²⁸ And he saith, `Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.'

⁴ and Esau runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and falleth on his neck, and kisseth him, and they weep;

¹⁰ And here is a fear of Jehovah on all kingdoms of the lands that are round about Judah, and they have not fought with Jehoshaphat;

³¹ And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock—horned—hoofed.

¹¹ Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?

¹ And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest, ² did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ and having received nourishment, was strengthened, and Saul was with the disciples in Damascus certain days, ²⁰ and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

³¹ What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?

¹⁸ and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you—an odour of a sweet smell—a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

¹⁰ to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

²⁰ the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory—to the ages of the ages! Amen.

²² and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

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

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

⁶ The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
⁷ The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

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.

¹⁰ Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

⁶ but it is great gain—the piety with contentment; ⁷ for nothing did we bring into the world—it is manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; ⁸ but having food and raiment—with these we shall suffice ourselves; ⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

²³ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

¹ Of man are arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

⁵ Is not this that with which my lord drinketh? and he observeth diligently with it; ye have done evil in that which ye have done.'

¹⁵ and Joseph saith to them, `What is this deed that ye have done? have ye not known that a man like me doth diligently observe?'

¹⁸ `And it hath been, when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom, that he hath written for himself the copy of this law, on a book, from that before the priests the Levites, ¹⁹ and it hath been with him, and he hath read in it all days of his life, so that he doth learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them; ²⁰ so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

³ He said—the God of Israel—to me, He spake—the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man is righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God. ⁴ And as the light of morning he riseth, A morning sun—no clouds! By the shining, by the rain, Tender grass of the earth!

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.

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is age-during, and for ever, A sceptre of uprightness Is the sceptre of Thy kingdom. ⁷ Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

¹ By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son.
² He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment. ³ The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness. ⁴ He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

⁴ And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou—Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou—Thou hast done.

¹² An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.
¹³ The delight of kings are righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,

¹ Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule. ² And each hath been as a hiding-place from wind, And as a secret hiding-place from inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ⁶ In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'

⁴ They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

⁷ Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

¹² Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough it with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

³⁵ `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; ³⁶ righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

¹³ `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. ¹⁴ Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small. ¹⁵ Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

¹ Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

¹⁰ A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

²³ An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.

¹⁰ Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath—ye have.

⁷ Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

⁵ Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

¹¹ Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

¹⁶ for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

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

⁵ Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.

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

¹⁴ a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.

⁴⁸ and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

¹¹ And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war,

⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not. ⁶ Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me. ⁷ He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.

³⁵ The favour of a king is to a wise servant, And an object of his wrath is one causing shame!

¹¹ Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace are his lips, a king is his friend.

³¹ And he saith, `Thus doth God do to me, and thus He doth add—if it remain—the head of Elisha son of Shaphat—upon him this day.' <sup>32</sup> And Elisha is sitting in his house, and the elders are sitting with him, and the king sendeth a man from before him; before the messenger doth come unto him, even he himself said unto the elders, `Have ye seen that this son of the murderer hath sent to turn aside my head? see, at the coming in of the messenger, shut the door, and ye have held him fast at the door, is not the sound of the feet of his lord behind him?' ³³ He is yet speaking with them, and lo, the messenger is coming down unto him, and he saith, `Lo, this is the evil from Jehovah: what—do I wait for Jehovah any more?'

¹¹ An evil man seeketh only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him.

¹² The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.

² The fear of a king is a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.

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

¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar, in anger and fury, hath said to bring in Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. Then these men have been brought in before the king. ¹⁴ Nebuchadnezzar hath answered and said to them, `Is it a laid plan, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego—my gods ye are not serving, and to the golden image that I have raised up ye are not doing obeisance? <sup>15</sup> Now, lo, ye are ready, so that at the time that ye hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and do obeisance to the image that I have made! —and lo, ye do no obeisance—in that hour ye are cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; who is that God who doth deliver you out of my hands?' <sup>16</sup> Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, `We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee. ¹⁷ Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver. ¹⁸ And lo—not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up we do no obeisance.'
¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar hath been full of fury, and the expression of his face hath been changed concerning Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; he answered and said to heat the furnace seven times above that which it is seen to be heated; ²⁰ and to certain mighty men who are in his force he hath said to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then these men have been bound in their coats, their tunics, and their turbans, and their clothing, and have been cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²² Therefore, because that the word of the king is urgent, and the furnace heated exceedingly, those men who have taken up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego—killed them hath the spark of the fire. ²³ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, have fallen down in the midst of the burning fiery furnace—bound. ²⁴ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king hath been astonished, and hath risen in haste; he hath answered and said to his counsellors, `Have we not cast three men into the midst of the fire—bound?' They have answered and are saying to the king, `Certainly, O king.' ²⁵ He answered and hath said, `Lo, I am seeing four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like to a son of the gods.'

²⁷ and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

⁴ `And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do; ⁵ but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.

²⁰ And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who is over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's;

²⁰ in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'

²³ And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain. ²⁴ I laugh unto them—they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.

⁶ Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

⁶ For Thou makest him blessings for ever, Thou dost cause him to rejoice with joy, By Thy countenance.

⁵ For—a moment is in His anger, Life is in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

⁶ He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers—sprinkling the earth.

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.'

¹ They asked of Jehovah rain in a time of latter rain, Jehovah is making lightnings, And rain in showers He doth give to them. To each—the herb in the field.

²⁸ Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

¹³ Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.
¹⁴ The deep hath said, `It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, `It is not with me.' ¹⁵ Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed—its price. ¹⁶ It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire, ¹⁷ Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor is its exchange a vessel of fine gold. ¹⁸ Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom is above rubies. ¹⁹ Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is not valued.
²⁰ And the wisdom—whence doth it come? And where is this, the place of understanding? ²¹ It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden. ²² Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have heard its fame.' <sup>23</sup> God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place. <sup>24</sup> For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see, <sup>25</sup> To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure. <sup>26</sup> In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices, <sup>27</sup> Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it, and also searched it out, <sup>28</sup> And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

¹²⁷ Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold—even fine gold.

¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. ¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.

⁷ The first thing is wisdom—get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold. ¹¹ For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.

¹⁹ Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

¹² For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.

²⁶ for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

²¹ so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

²⁴ Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee, ²⁵ Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee. ²⁶ Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established. ²⁷ Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

⁹ Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.

¹⁶ Whoso is keeping the command is keeping his soul, Whoso is despising His ways dieth.

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.

¹³ but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

³⁵ but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.
¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

³⁹ and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

²¹ yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ—to life age-during;

²⁴ And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set you in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

¹⁰ `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

⁵ And Haman seeth that Mordecai is not bowing and doing obeisance to him, and Haman is full of fury,

⁶ And Haman cometh in, and the king saith to him, `What—to do with the man in whose honour the king hath delighted?' And Haman saith in his heart, `To whom doth the king delight to do honour more than myself?'

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

² Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.

¹⁹ Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

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

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

¹¹ The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day. ¹² For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

¹⁰ `Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur. ¹¹ Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands—to devote them—and thou art delivered! ¹² Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who are in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

³⁰ the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour? ³¹ `While the word is in the king's mouth a voice from the heavens hath fallen: To thee they are saying: O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom hath passed from thee, <sup>32</sup> and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it. <sup>33</sup> `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'
³⁴ `And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation; <sup>35</sup> and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done? <sup>36</sup> `At that time my understanding doth return unto me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my brightness doth return unto me, and to me my counsellors and my great men do seek, and over my kingdom I have been made right, and abundant greatness hath been added to me. ³⁷ `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

²² `And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though all this thou hast known;

²⁴ `Then from before Him sent is the extremity of the hand, and the writing is noted down;

³ The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place is his habitation, He is saying in his heart, `Who doth bring me down to earth?') ⁴ If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

³³ And Peter answering said to him, `Even if all shall be stumbled at thee, I will never be stumbled.' <sup>34</sup> Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that, this night, before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me.' ³⁵ Peter saith to him, `Even if it may be necessary for me to die with thee, I will not deny thee;' in like manner also said all the disciples.

⁷⁴ Then began he to anathematise, and to swear—`I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,

²⁰ by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

⁶ not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

⁹ The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: —

¹⁸ Near is Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

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

³ Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As men rejoice in their apportioning spoil.

⁶ Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

¹³ For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants, ¹⁴ And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I—I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.' ¹⁵ —Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!

¹² Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.

¹⁵ For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

³ `Happy the poor in spirit—because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

⁵¹ He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart, ⁵² He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly, ⁵³ The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,

¹³ `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me—the sinner! ¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

³⁸ and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God is ?' <sup>39</sup> and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou; ⁴⁰ thou—thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.'

²⁰ and they are helped against them, and the Hagarites are given into their hand, and all who are with them, for they cried to God in battle, and He was entreated of them, because they trusted in Him.

¹² Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

⁸ Taste ye and see that Jehovah is good, O the happiness of the man who trusteth in Him.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah are as Mount Zion, It is not moved—to the age it abideth.

⁵ O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope is on Jehovah his God,

³⁵ For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

¹⁵ Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous is hard.

² A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.

⁸ Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.

¹⁹ That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou. ²⁰ Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

³ By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself. ⁴ And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, With all precious and pleasant wealth. ⁵ Mighty is the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,

³ An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace—peace! For in Thee it is confident. ⁴ Trust ye in Jehovah for ever, For in Jah Jehovah is a rock of ages,

¹⁸ And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment is Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah. ⁸ And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

¹⁹ And the king speaketh with them, and there hath none been found among them all like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, and they stand before the king; ²⁰ and in any matter of wisdom and understanding that the king hath sought of them, he findeth them ten hands above all the scribes, the enchanters, who are in all his kingdom. ²¹ And Daniel is unto the first year of Cyrus the king.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar hath answered and hath said, `Blessed is the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who hath sent His messenger, and hath delivered His servants who trusted on Him, and the word of the king changed, and gave up their bodies that they might not serve nor do obeisance to any god except to their own God.

²³ Then was the king very glad for him, and he hath commanded Daniel to be taken up out of the den, and Daniel hath been taken up out of the den, and no injury hath been found in him, because he hath believed in his God.

¹⁶ `Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

¹² for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ, ¹³ in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—the good news of your salvation—in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

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;

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.

⁸ The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.

⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools is not right.

²³ The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning,
²⁴ Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend—from counsel of the soul.

¹⁰ The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.

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.

²² and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?'

⁴⁶ The officers answered, `Never so spake man—as this man.'

¹⁹ for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;

¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: —

¹¹ A fountain of life is the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

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

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

⁴ Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.

¹⁴ let them alone, guides they are—blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

¹⁶ `Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary—is debtor! <sup>17</sup> Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold? <sup>18</sup> `And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it—is debtor! ¹⁹ Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift? ²⁰ `He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it; <sup>21</sup> and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it; <sup>22</sup> and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it. <sup>23</sup> `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law—the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved you to do, and those not to neglect. ²⁴ `Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing. <sup>25</sup> `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence. ²⁶ `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.

³⁹ And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰ A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one perfected shall be as his teacher.

²⁴ `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

⁶³ the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

⁶⁸ Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;

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.

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.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, ¹⁸ For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

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. ³⁵ 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.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

² Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

¹⁰³ How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

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

²² For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.

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

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

²⁶ An abomination to Jehovah are thoughts of wickedness, And pure are sayings of pleasantness.

¹⁶ And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

¹³ Eat my son, honey that is good, And the honeycomb—sweet to thy palate. ¹⁴ So is the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.

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.

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.

¹⁶ Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

¹⁹ It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;' <sup>20</sup> and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord. <sup>21</sup> Jesus, therefore, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;'

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel is wise.

²⁶ The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

¹² There is a way—right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.

¹⁵ Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.' <sup>16</sup> Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone—a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste. ¹⁷ And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow. ¹⁸ And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place. ¹⁹ From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.

⁴⁷ The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been led astray? ⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'

⁹ `I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do,

⁵ Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

¹² If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned—thyself bearest it .

²³ In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.

⁷ All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

¹¹ and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, ¹² that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

⁸ nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you; ⁹ not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us; ¹⁰ for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat, ¹¹ for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working, ¹² and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

¹⁷ `And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he is too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.'

¹ And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name is Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, `We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.'

¹⁴ From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings. ¹⁵ I—in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Thy form!

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.

⁴ My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames—sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

¹² A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

¹⁸ Woe to those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as with thick ropes of the cart—sin.

¹³ Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

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.

¹ And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' <sup>2</sup> And the woman saith unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat, ³ and of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die.' ⁴ And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die, <sup>5</sup> for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it—your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'
<sup>6</sup> And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat; <sup>7</sup> and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they are naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles. <sup>8</sup> And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
<sup>9</sup> And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, `Where art thou?' ¹⁰ and he saith, `Thy sound I have heard in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.'
<sup>11</sup> And He saith, `Who hath declared to thee that thou art naked? of the tree of which I have commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?' ¹² and the man saith, `The woman whom Thou didst place with me—she hath given to me of the tree—and I do eat.' <sup>13</sup> And Jehovah God saith to the woman, `What is this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, `The serpent hath caused me to forget—and I do eat.'

⁹ And David saith to Saul, `Why dost thou hear the words of man, saying, Lo, David is seeking thine evil?

¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

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

⁹ Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

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

²⁰ Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth, ²¹ Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife. ²² The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

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

³³ For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

²⁰ for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I—I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

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, ⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, ⁵ wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

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;

¹¹ And Saul sendeth messengers unto the house of David to watch him, and to put him to death in the morning; and Michal his wife declareth to David, saying, `If thou art not delivering thy life to-night—tomorrow thou art put to death.'

¹⁷ And Saul saith unto Michal, `Why thus hast thou deceived me—that thou dost send away mine enemy, and he is escaped?' and Michal saith unto Saul, `He said unto me, Send me away: why do I put thee to death?'

⁷ And Saul saith to his servants who are standing by him, `Hear, I pray you, ye Benjamites; also to all of you doth the son of Jesse give fields and vineyards! all of you he doth appoint heads of thousands and heads of hundreds! <sup>8</sup> for ye have conspired all of you against me, and there is none uncovering mine ear about my son's covenanting with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you grieving for me, and uncovering mine ear, that my son hath raised up my servant against me, to lie in wait as at this day.' <sup>9</sup> And answer doth Doeg the Edomite, who is set over the servants of Saul, and saith, `I have seen the son of Jesse coming in to Nob, unto Ahimelech son of Ahitub,

¹⁹ And the Ziphites go up unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, `Is not David hiding himself with us in fortresses, in the forest, in the height of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desolate place? <sup>20</sup> And, now, by all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down, and ours is to shut him up into the hand of the king.' <sup>21</sup> And Saul saith, `Blessed are ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me;

¹³ so that he is an hireling, that I may fear and do so, and I had sinned, and it had been to them for an evil name that they may reproach me.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. ¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, ¹² We swallow them as Sheol—alive, And whole—as those going down to the pit, ¹³ Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, ¹⁴ Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is—to all of us.'

¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, ¹³ Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, ¹⁴ Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, ¹⁵ Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

³¹ Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.

¹⁷ Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

¹² A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth, ¹³ Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers, ¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

¹⁰ Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.

²⁷ A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips—as a burning fire.

¹⁰ Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

³ On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking—also the judge—for recompence, And the great—he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

¹⁵ for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

⁷ whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask. ⁸ And she having been instigated by her mother—`Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

²³ And the governor said, `Why, what evil did he?' and they were crying out the more, saying, `Let be crucified.' ²⁴ And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye—ye shall see;' <sup>25</sup> and all the people answering said, `His blood is upon us, and upon our children!'
²⁶ Then did he release to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him up that he may be crucified;

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 And Joseph bringeth in Jacob his father, and causeth him to stand before Pharaoh; and Jacob blesseth Pharaoh. ⁸ And Pharaoh saith unto Jacob, `How many are the days of the years of thy life?' <sup>9</sup> 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.' ¹⁰ And Jacob blesseth Pharaoh, and goeth out from before Pharaoh.

³² `At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

² and now, lo, the king is walking habitually before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, lo, they are with you, and I have walked habitually before you from my youth till this day. ³ `Lo, here am I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? —and I restore to you.' <sup>4</sup> And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.' ⁵ And he saith unto them, `A witness is Jehovah against you: and a witness is His anointed this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand;' and they say, `A witness.'

¹⁰ And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed art Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age. <sup>11</sup> To Thee, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the might, and the beauty, and the victory, and the honour, because of all in the heavens and in the earth; to Thee, O Jehovah, is the kingdom, and he who is lifting up himself over all for head; <sup>12</sup> and the riches, and the honour are from before Thee, and Thou art ruling over all, and in Thy hand is power and might, and in Thy hand, to make great, and to give strength to all. <sup>13</sup> `And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name; ¹⁴ yea, because, who am I, and who are my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee is the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee; ¹⁵ for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding. ¹⁶ `O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, is out of Thy hand, and of Thee is the whole. <sup>17</sup> `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. ¹⁸ `O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee; <sup>19</sup> and to Solomon my son give a perfect heart, to keep Thy commands, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do the whole, even to build the palace for which I have prepared.' <sup>20</sup> And David saith to all the assembly, `Bless, I pray you, Jehovah your God;' and all the assembly bless Jehovah, God of their fathers, and bow and do obeisance to Jehovah, and to the king. ²¹ And they sacrifice to Jehovah sacrifices, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the morrow of that day, bullocks a thousand, rams a thousand, lambs a thousand, and their oblations, even sacrifices in abundance, for all Israel. ²² And they eat and drink before Jehovah on that day with great joy, and cause Solomon son of David to reign a second time, and anoint him before Jehovah for leader, and Zadok for priest.
²³ And Solomon sitteth on the throne of Jehovah for king instead of David his father, and prospereth, and all Israel hearken unto him, ²⁴ and all the heads, and the mighty men, and also all the sons of king David have given a hand under Solomon the king; ²⁵ and Jehovah maketh Solomon exceedingly great before the eyes of all Israel, and putteth upon him the honour of the kingdom that hath not been on any king over Israel before him.

⁶ And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: —Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion. ⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, ² For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

⁶ Sons' sons are the crown of old men, And the glory of sons are their fathers.

²⁹ The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

¹³ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

²⁹ `Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace, <sup>30</sup> because mine eyes did see Thy salvation, <sup>31</sup> which Thou didst prepare before the face of all the peoples, <sup>32</sup> a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.' <sup>33</sup> And Joseph and his mother were wondering at the things spoken concerning him, <sup>34</sup> and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this one is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against— ³⁵ (and also thine own soul shall a sword pass through) —that the reasonings of many hearts may be revealed.' ³⁶ And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity, ³⁷ and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day, ³⁸ and she, at that hour, having come in, was confessing, likewise, to the Lord, and was speaking concerning him, to all those looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

⁹ because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

⁸ Merciful and gracious is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

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

¹⁹ Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.

¹¹ The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory is to pass over transgression.

²⁸ A city broken down without walls, Is a man without restraint over his spirit!

²¹ Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

¹ Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

²¹ He who is overcoming—I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also did overcome and did sit down with my Father in His throne.

⁵⁵ `Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit; <sup>56</sup> according to the lot is their inheritance apportioned between many and few.'
<sup>57</sup> And these are numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon is the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite. <sup>58</sup> These are families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram, <sup>59</sup> and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom one hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister. <sup>60</sup> And born to Aaron Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; <sup>61</sup> and Nadab dieth—Abihu also—in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah. <sup>62</sup> And their numbered ones are three and twenty thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel; for an inheritance hath not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel.
<sup>63</sup> These are those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who have numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho; <sup>64</sup> and among these there hath not been a man of those numbered by Moses, and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai, <sup>65</sup> for Jehovah said of them, `They do certainly die in the wilderness;' and there hath not been left of them a man save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

¹⁴ and ye have been brought near in the morning by your tribes, and it hath been, the tribe which Jehovah doth capture doth draw near by families, and the family which Jehovah doth capture doth draw near by households, and the household which Jehovah doth capture doth draw near by men;

⁵ and they have divided it into seven portions—Judah doth stay by its border on the south, and the house of Joseph do stay by their border on the north—

¹⁰ And Joshua casteth for them a lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, and there Joshua apportioneth the land to the sons of Israel, according to their divisions.

⁴¹ And Saul saith unto Jehovah, God of Israel, `Give perfection;' and Jonathan and Saul are captured, and the people went out. <sup>42</sup> And Saul saith, `Cast between me and Jonathan my son;' and Jonathan is captured.

¹ And the heads of the people dwell in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people have caused to fall lots to bring in one out of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the cities,

¹⁸ The lot causeth contentions to cease, And between the mighty it separateth.

²⁶ Many are seeking the face of a ruler, And from Jehovah is the judgment of each.

⁷ And they say each unto his neighbour, `Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil is on us.' And they cast lots, and the lot falleth on Jonah.

²⁶ and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.