Proverbs 19 Cross References - YLT

¹ Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.
² Also, without knowledge the soul is not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.
³ The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.
⁴ Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.
⁵ A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
⁶ Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts. ⁷ All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words—they are not!
⁸ Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.
⁹ A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
¹⁰ Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.
¹¹ The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory is to pass over transgression.
¹² The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.
¹³ A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
¹⁴ House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.
¹⁵ Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.
¹⁶ Whoso is keeping the command is keeping his soul, Whoso is despising His ways dieth.
¹⁷ Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.
¹⁸ Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.
¹⁹ A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.
²⁰ Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.
²¹ Many are the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.
²² The desirableness of a man is his kindness, And better is the poor than a liar.
²³ The fear of Jehovah is to life, And satisfied he remaineth—he is not charged with evil.
²⁴ The slothful hath hidden his hand in a dish, Even unto his mouth he bringeth it not back.
²⁵ A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.
²⁶ Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.
²⁷ Cease, my son, to hear instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.
²⁸ A worthless witness scorneth judgment, And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
²⁹ Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

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.'

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;

¹¹ And I, in mine integrity I walk, Redeem me, and favour me.

²⁶ All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

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

² Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted in his ways is despising Him.

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.

²² The desirableness of a man is his kindness, And better is the poor than a liar.

⁷ The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!

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

³ For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

³¹ Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. ³² And whoever may speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven to him, but whoever may speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is coming. ³³ `Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known. <sup>34</sup> `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.

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?

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? ⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

⁵ If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,

¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

²¹ The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

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

⁵ The purposes of the diligent are only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

⁸ Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

²⁰ A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

²² Troubled for wealth is the man with an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

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

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

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.

¹¹ In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it is not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

¹⁶ 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.

⁶ Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

³ and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

² for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

⁶ 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; ⁷ 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. ⁸ 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.
⁹ And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, `Where art thou?' <sup>10</sup> and he saith, `Thy sound I have heard in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.'
¹¹ 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?' <sup>12</sup> and the man saith, `The woman whom Thou didst place with me—she hath given to me of the tree—and I do eat.'

⁵ and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.
⁶ And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen? <sup>7</sup> Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'
<sup>8</sup> And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, `Let us go into the field;' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
⁹ And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where is Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper—I?' ¹⁰ And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground; <sup>11</sup> and now, cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand; <sup>12</sup> when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee—a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
<sup>13</sup> And Cain saith unto Jehovah, `Greater is my punishment than to be borne; ¹⁴ lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been—every one finding me doth slay me.'

¹⁹ And Korah assembleth against them all the company unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and the honour of Jehovah is seen by all the company. ²⁰ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²¹ `Be ye separated from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;' <sup>22</sup> and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh—the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'
²³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ `Speak unto the company, saying, Go ye up from round about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.' <sup>25</sup> And Moses riseth, and goeth unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel go after him, <sup>26</sup> and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.' ²⁷ And they go up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, from round about, and Dathan, and Abiram have come out, standing at the opening of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their infants. ²⁸ And Moses saith, `By this ye do know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart; <sup>29</sup> if according to the death of all men these die—or the charge of all men is charged upon them—Jehovah hath not sent me; <sup>30</sup> and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol—then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.' <sup>31</sup> And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which is under them cleaveth, <sup>32</sup> and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who are for Korah, and all the goods, <sup>33</sup> and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly; <sup>34</sup> and all Israel who are round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, `Lest the earth swallow us;'
³⁵ and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume. ³⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ `Say unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, and he lifteth up the censers from the midst of the burning, and the fire scatter thou yonder, for they have been hallowed, <sup>38</sup> even the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.' <sup>39</sup> And Eleazar the priest taketh the brazen censers which they who are burnt had brought near, and they spread them out, a covering for the altar— <sup>40</sup> a memorial to the sons of Israel, so that a stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron doth not draw near to make a perfume before Jehovah, and is not as Korah, and as his company, —as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses to him.
<sup>41</sup> And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur, on the morrow, against Moses and against Aaron, saying, `Ye—ye have put to death the people of Jehovah.'

¹² And the sons of Israel speak unto Moses, saying, `Lo, we have expired; we have perished; we have all of us perished; ¹³ any who is at all drawing near unto the tabernacle of Jehovah dieth; have we not been consumed—to expire?'

¹³ And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of Jehovah thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had Jehovah established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age;

²³ for a sin of divination is rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim is stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from being king.'

¹³ And Saul saith unto him, `Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, by thy giving to him bread and a sword, and to ask for him at God, to rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?' <sup>14</sup> And Ahimelech answereth the king and saith, `And who among all thy servants is as David—faithful, and son-in-law of the king, and hath turned aside unto thy council, and is honoured in thy house? ¹⁵ To-day have I begun to ask for him at God? far be it from me! let not the king lay anything against his servant, against any of the house of my father, for thy servant hath known nothing of all this, less or more.' ¹⁶ And the king saith, `Thou dost surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all the house of thy father.' <sup>17</sup> And the king saith to runners, those standing by him, `Turn round, and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they have known that he is fleeing, and have not uncovered mine ear;' and the servants of the king have not been willing to put forth their hand to come against the priests of Jehovah. ¹⁸ And the king saith to Doeg, `Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod, <sup>19</sup> and Nob, the city of the priests, he hath smitten by the mouth of the sword, from man even unto woman, from infant even unto suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, by the mouth of the sword.
<sup>20</sup> And there escapeth one son of Ahimelech, son of Ahitub, and his name is Abiathar, and he fleeth after David, <sup>21</sup> and Abiathar declareth to David that Saul hath slain the priests of Jehovah. <sup>22</sup> And David saith to Abiathar, `I have known on that day when Doeg the Edomite is there, that he doth certainly declare it to Saul; I have brought it round to every person of the house of thy father; ²³ dwell with me; fear not; for he who seeketh my life seeketh thy life; for a charge art thou with me.'

⁴² and he saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, Because thou hast sent away the man I devoted, out of thy hand, even thy life hath been for his life, and thy people for his people;' ⁴³ and the king of Israel goeth unto his house, sulky and wroth, and cometh in to Samaria.

⁹ And the king of Israel goeth, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom, and they turn round the way seven days, and there hath been no water for the camp, and for the cattle that are at their feet, ¹⁰ and the king of Israel saith, `Alas, for Jehovah hath called for these three kings, to give them into the hand of Moab.'

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?'

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.' ¹⁰ And Asa is angry at the seer, and giveth him to the house of torture, for he is in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresseth some of the people at that time.

¹ By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity,

⁷ Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices.

³ The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.

²¹ —And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards. ²² And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! —Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

⁴⁵ and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul—contradicting and speaking evil. ⁴⁶ And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;

⁹ and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform—to give to Him glory. ¹⁰ And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain, ¹¹ and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from their works.

¹⁵ My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away. ¹⁶ That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself. ¹⁷ By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place. ¹⁸ Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost. ¹⁹ Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them. ²⁰ They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded. ²¹ Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
²² Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me? ²³ And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?

¹³ My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. ¹⁴ Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, ¹⁵ Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes. ¹⁶ To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him. ¹⁷ My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.

¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

²⁰ Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.

⁶ Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts. ⁷ All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words—they are not!

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; ¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want; ¹⁵ and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

¹ `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

¹¹ `Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.

¹⁶ `When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy, <sup>17</sup> then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days, <sup>18</sup> and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness is a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother: <sup>19</sup> `Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst, ²⁰ and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst; ²¹ and thine eye doth not pity—life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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.'

³ What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue! ⁴ Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.

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

⁹ A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

²⁸ A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.

²⁴ And the king hath said, and they have brought those men who had accused Daniel, and to the den of lions they have cast them, they, their sons, and their wives; and they have not come to the lower part of the den till that the lions have power over them, and all their bones they have broken small.

²⁰ and ye have said also, Lo, thy servant Jacob is behind us;' for he said, `I pacify his face with the present which is going before me, and afterwards I see his face; it may be he lifteth up my face;'

⁶ and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him—face to the earth.

¹⁵ And the men take this present, double money also they have taken in their hand, and Benjamin; and they rise, and go down to Egypt, and stand before Joseph;

¹⁹ and saith unto the king, `Let not my lord impute to me iniquity; neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, —for the king to set it unto his heart; <sup>20</sup> for thy servant hath known that I have sinned; and lo, I have come to-day, first of all the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.' <sup>21</sup> And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death—because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?' ²² And David saith, `What—to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I am king over Israel?' <sup>23</sup> And the king saith unto Shimei, `Thou dost not die;' and the king sweareth to him.
²⁴ And Mephibosheth son of Saul hath come down to meet the king—and he prepared not his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, yea, his garments he washed not, even from the day of the going away of the king, till the day that he came in peace— ²⁵ and it cometh to pass, when he hath come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king saith to him, `Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?' <sup>26</sup> And he saith, `My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for thy servant said, I saddle for me the ass, and ride on it, and go with the king, for thy servant is lame; ²⁷ and he uttereth slander against thy servant unto my lord the king, and my lord the king is as a messenger of God; and do thou that which is good in thine eyes, ²⁸ for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and thou dost set thy servant among those eating at thy table, and what right have I any more—even to cry any more unto the king?' ²⁹ And the king saith to him, `Why dost thou speak any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba—share ye the field.' <sup>30</sup> And Mephibosheth saith unto the king, `Yea, the whole let him take, after that my lord the king hath come in peace unto his house.'
³¹ And Barzillai the Gileadite hath gone down from Rogelim, and passeth over the Jordan with the king, to send him away over the Jordan; ³² and Barzillai is very aged, a son of eighty years, and he hath sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he is a very great man; ³³ and the king saith unto Barzillai, `Pass thou over with me, and I have sustained thee with me in Jerusalem.' <sup>34</sup> And Barzillai saith unto the king, `How many are the days of the years of my life, that I go up with the king to Jerusalem? ³⁵ A son of eighty years I am to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king? ³⁶ As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense? ³⁷ Let, I pray thee, thy servant turn back again, and I die in mine own city, near the burying-place of my father and of my mother, —and lo, thy servant Chimham, let him pass over with my lord the king, and do thou to him that which is good in thine eyes.' ³⁸ And the king saith, `With me doth Chimham go over, and I do to him that which is good in thine eyes, yea, all that thou dost fix on me I do to thee.' ³⁹ And all the people pass over the Jordan, and the king hath passed over, and the king giveth a kiss to Barzillai, and blesseth him, and he turneth back to his place.

²⁴ I laugh unto them—they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall. ²⁵ I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre with a present, The rich of the people do appease thy face.

¹⁵ In the light of a king's face is life, And his good-will is as a cloud of the latter rain.

⁸ A stone of grace is the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

¹⁶ The gift of a man maketh room for him, And before the great it leadeth him.

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

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger, And a bribe in the bosom strong fury.

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

¹¹ and having come to the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down they bowed to him, and having opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh,

²³ for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹ My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.

⁸ Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up—I go not forth.

¹⁸ Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance is the place of darkness!

²³ With supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.

⁴ Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

¹³ Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

¹⁵ and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man! ¹⁶ And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' —

³⁸ and he cried out, saying, `Jesus, Son of David, deal kindly with me;' <sup>39</sup> and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.' ⁴⁰ And Jesus having stood, commanded him to be brought unto him, and he having come nigh, he questioned him,

⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

¹⁵ and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, ¹⁶ and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

¹¹ Also—Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them is a great reward.'

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, ² To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, ³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, ⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, ⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. ⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. ⁷ Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. ⁸ To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. ⁹ Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.

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

²¹ My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness,

⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

⁶ Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

²¹ Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

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!

²⁰ The wise in any matter findeth good, And whoso is trusting in Jehovah, O his happiness.

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

¹⁸ For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

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.

²⁵ he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world—to life age-during shall keep it;

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

¹⁰ for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips—not to speak guile;

⁵ A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

¹⁵ Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail. ¹⁶ And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed. ¹⁷ Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one is profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

²⁵ I have heard that which the prophets said, Who prophesy in My name falsehood, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed.' ²⁶ Till when is it in the heart of the prophets? The prophets of falsehood, Yea, prophets of the deceit of their heart, ²⁷ Who are devising to cause My people To forget My name by their dreams, That they recount each to his neighbour, As their fathers forgot my name for Baal. ²⁸ The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him recount the dream, And he with whom is My word, Let him truly speak My word. What—to the straw with the corn? An affirmation of Jehovah. ²⁹ Is it not thus? My word is as a fire, An affirmation of Jehovah. And as a hammer—it breaketh in pieces a rock. ³⁰ Therefore, lo, I am against the prophets, An affirmation of Jehovah, Stealing My words each from his neighbour. ³¹ Lo, I am against the prophets, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are making smooth their tongue, And they affirm—an affirmation. ³² Lo, I am against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I—I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁵ And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto Hananiah the prophet, `Hear, I pray thee, O Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, and thou hast caused this people to trust on falsehood. ¹⁶ Therefore thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am casting thee from off the face of the ground; this year thou diest, for apostasy thou hast spoken concerning Jehovah.' ¹⁷ And Hananiah the prophet dieth in that year, in the seventh month.

³¹ `Send unto all the removal, saying, Thus said Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I—I have not sent him, and he doth cause you to trust on falsehood, ³² Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to My people—an affirmation of Jehovah—for apostasy he hath spoken against Jehovah.'

²² Because of paining the heart of the righteous with falsehood, And I have not pained it, And strengthening the hands of the wicked, So as not to turn back from his evil way, To keep him alive,

⁸ and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence, ⁹ him, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

¹ And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, ² in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

¹ And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, ² and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,
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.

²⁰ and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast—the two—to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

⁸ and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

¹⁵ and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

³⁶ 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.

²⁴ And Joab cometh unto the king, and saith, `What hast thou done? lo, Abner hath come unto thee! why is this—thou hast sent him away, and he is really gone? ²⁵ Thou hast known Abner son of Ner, that to deceive thee he came, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou art doing.'

³⁹ and I to-day am tender, and an anointed king: and these men, sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me; Jehovah doth recompense to the doer of the evil according to his evil.'

¹⁵ The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.

⁷ Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

¹ As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not comely for a fool.

²¹ For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four—it is not able to bear: ²² For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

⁵ There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler, ⁶ He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit. ⁷ I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.

⁵ And the people hath exacted—man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

¹¹ Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them! ¹² And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.

¹² And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth, ¹³ And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ¹⁴ And revealed it hath been in mine ears, By Jehovah of Hosts: Not pardoned is this iniquity to you, Till ye die, said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.

³ With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies—princes. ⁴ All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening. ⁵ A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

¹ `Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.

³ Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence, ⁴ Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, ⁵ Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music; ⁶ Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

²³ and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

⁹ be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

¹⁵ And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, `Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.' <sup>16</sup> And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, `Thy father commanded before his death, saying, ¹⁷ Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him. ¹⁸ And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we are to thee for servants.' <sup>19</sup> And Joseph saith unto them, `Fear not, for am I in the place of God? ²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil—God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people; ²¹ and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.

¹⁶ The fool—in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

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

³² Better is the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

¹⁴ The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

³ An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

²¹ If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.

⁴⁴ but I—I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you, ⁴⁵ that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

²¹ Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him—till seven times?' <sup>22</sup> Jesus saith to him, `I do not say to thee till seven times, but till seventy times seven.

¹⁸ If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine, ²⁰ I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head; ²¹ Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

³² and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

¹² Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, ¹³ forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you—so also ye;

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

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!

⁸ And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther is, and the king saith, `Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?' the word hath gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered.

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

³ As dew of Hermon—That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing—Life unto the age!

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.

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.

¹⁵ A growling lion, and a ranging bear, Is the wicked ruler over a poor people.

⁴ Where the word of a king is power is, and who saith to him, `What dost thou?'

¹² Therefore the king hath been angry and very wroth, and hath said to destroy all the wise men of Babylon; ¹³ And the sentence hath gone forth, and the wise men are being slain, and they have sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

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.

¹⁹ and because of the greatness that He gave to him, all peoples, nations, and languages were trembling and fearing before him: whom he willed he was slaying, and whom he willed he was keeping alive, and whom he willed he was raising up, and whom he willed he was making low;

⁵ I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob hath been in the midst of many peoples, As dew from Jehovah—as showers on the herb, That waiteth not for man, nor stayeth for the sons of men.

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.

¹ And it cometh to pass afterwards that Absalom son of David hath a fair sister, and her name is Tamar, and Amnon son of David loveth her. ² And Amnon hath distress—even to become sick, because of Tamar his sister, for she is a virgin, and it is hard in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her. ³ And Amnon hath a friend, and his name is Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David's brother, and Jonadab is a very wise man, ⁴ and saith to him, `Wherefore art thou thus lean, O king's son, morning by morning? dost thou not declare to me?' And Amnon saith to him, `Tamar—sister of Absalom my brother—I am loving.' ⁵ And Jonadab saith to him, `Lie down on thy couch, and feign thyself sick, and thy father hath come in to see thee, and thou hast said unto him, `Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come in and give me bread to eat; and she hath made the food before mine eyes so that I see it, and have eaten from her hand.' ⁶ And Amnon lieth down, and feigneth himself sick, and the king cometh in to see him, and Amnon saith unto the king, `Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come, and she maketh before mine eyes two cakes, and I eat from her hand.' <sup>7</sup> And David sendeth unto Tamar, to the house, saying, `Go, I pray thee, to the house of Amnon thy brother, and make for him food.' ⁸ And Tamar goeth to the house of Amnon her brother, and he is lying down, and she taketh the dough, and kneadeth, and maketh cakes before his eyes, and cooketh the cakes, ⁹ and taketh the frying-pan, and poureth out before him, and he refuseth to eat, and Amnon saith, `Take ye out every one from me;' and they go out every one from him. <sup>10</sup> And Amnon saith unto Tamar, `Bring the food into the inner chamber, and I eat from thy hand;' and Tamar taketh the cakes that she hath made, and bringeth in to Amnon her brother, into the inner chamber, ¹¹ and she bringeth nigh unto him to eat, and he layeth hold on her, and saith to her, `Come, lie with me, my sister.' <sup>12</sup> And she saith to him, `Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it is not done so in Israel; do not this folly. ¹³ And I—whither do I cause my reproach to go? and thou—thou art as one of the fools in Israel; and now, speak, I pray thee, unto the king; for he doth not withhold me from thee.' ¹⁴ And he hath not been willing to hearken to her voice, and is stronger than she, and humbleth her, and lieth with her. ¹⁵ And Amnon hateth her—a very great hatred—that greater is the hatred with which he hath hated her than the love with which he loved her, and Amnon saith to her, `Rise, go.' <sup>16</sup> And she saith to him, `Because of the circumstances this evil is greater than the other that thou hast done with me—to send me away;' and he hath not been willing to hearken to her, ¹⁷ and calleth his young man, his servant, and saith, `Send away, I pray thee, this one from me without, and bolt the door after her;' ¹⁸ —and upon her is a long coat, for such upper robes do daughters of the king who are virgins put on, —and his servant taketh her out without, and hath bolted the door after her.

¹⁹ Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.

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

²⁰ A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

²¹ Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

²⁵ A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

⁹ Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.

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

²⁴ Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

¹⁵ A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

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.

⁷ Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;

¹ And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, `Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan; ² rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take for thyself from thence a wife, of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother; ³ and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples; ⁴ and He doth give to thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.'

¹⁶ then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one—the first-born.

²³ And Joshua taketh the whole of the land, according to all that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses, and Joshua giveth it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes; and the land hath rest from war.

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

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

²² Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

¹⁰ A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies is her price. ¹¹ The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not. ¹² She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life. ¹³ She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands. ¹⁴ She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread. ¹⁵ Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels. ¹⁶ She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. ¹⁷ She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms. ¹⁸ She hath perceived when her merchandise is good, Her lamp is not extinguished in the night. ¹⁹ Her hands she hath sent forth on a spindle, And her hands have held a distaff. ²⁰ Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy. ²¹ She is not afraid of her household from snow, For all her household are clothed with scarlet. ²² Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple are her clothing. ²³ Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land. ²⁴ Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant. ²⁵ Strength and honour are her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day. ²⁶ Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness is on her tongue. ²⁷ She is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not. ²⁸ Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her, ²⁹ `Many are the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.' ³⁰ The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself. ³¹ Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

¹⁴ Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

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;

⁹ Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

⁴ Poor is he who is working—a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
⁵ Whoso is gathering in summer is a wise son, Whoso is sleeping in harvest is a son causing shame.

²⁴ The slothful hath hidden his hand in a dish, Even unto his mouth he bringeth it not back.

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes—be satisfied with bread.

²¹ For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

³³ A little sleep—a little slumber—A little folding of the hands to lie down.

¹⁰ Blind are his watchmen—all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe; ¹² the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

¹⁴ wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

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,

¹⁸ To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

¹³ Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.

³² Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

¹⁷ A highway of the upright is, `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

²³ Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

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

¹⁸ Without a Vision is a people made naked, And whoso is keeping the law, O his happiness!

⁵ Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.

¹³ The end of the whole matter let us hear: —`Fear God, and keep His commands, for this is the whole of man.

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.

⁵ The voice of the trumpet he heard, And he hath not taken warning, his blood is on him, And he who took warning his soul hath delivered.

²⁸ And he said to him, `Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

¹⁵ `If ye love me, my commands keep,

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' ²² Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?' <sup>23</sup> Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

¹⁰ if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love; ¹¹ these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full. ¹² `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; ¹³ greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; ¹⁴ ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

¹⁹ the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing—but a keeping of the commands of God.

³ and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; ⁴ he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

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

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

¹⁴ `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

⁷ `When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; <sup>8</sup> for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh. <sup>9</sup> `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart—worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin; ¹⁰ thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand; ¹¹ because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.
¹² `When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years—then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee. ¹³ And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty; ¹⁴ thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; of that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,

⁶ and the ewe-lamb he doth repay fourfold, because that he hath done this thing, and because that he had no pity.'

²⁴ There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.
²⁵ A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

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

²¹ Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.

³¹ An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

⁸ Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

²⁷ Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

¹ Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

⁷ Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?
⁸ Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee. ⁹ Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and He saith, `Behold Me.' If thou turn aside from thy midst the yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity, ¹⁰ And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon. 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.

⁴¹ he who is receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward, and he who is receiving a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward, ⁴² and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

⁴⁰ `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren—the least—to me ye did it .

³⁸ `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; ⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸ and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,

¹⁷ not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;

¹⁰ for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

²⁴ Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

¹³ Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. ¹⁴ Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

¹⁵ A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

¹⁷ Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

⁷ if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? ⁸ and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. ⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? ¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

³⁰ And the anger of Saul burneth against Jonathan, and he saith to him, `Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that thou art fixing on the son of Jesse to thy shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of thy mother? ³¹ for all the days that the son of Jesse liveth on the ground thou art not established, thou and thy kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he is a son of 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, ¹⁰ and he asketh for him at Jehovah, and provision hath given to him, and the sword of Goliath the Philistine hath given to him. ¹¹ And the king sendeth to call Ahimelech son of Ahitub, the priest, and all the house of his father, the priests, who are in Nob, and they come all of them unto the king; ¹² and Saul saith, `Hear, I pray thee, son of Ahitub;' and he saith, `Here am I, my lord.'

¹⁷ And he saith unto David, `More righteous thou art than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil; <sup>18</sup> and thou hast declared to-day how that thou hast done good with me, how that Jehovah shut me up into thy hand, and thou didst not slay me, <sup>19</sup> and that a man doth find his enemy, and hath sent him away in a good manner; and Jehovah doth repay thee good for that which thou didst to me this day. <sup>20</sup> `And, now, lo, I have known that thou dost certainly reign, and the kingdom of Israel hath stood in thy hand; ²¹ and, now, swear to me by Jehovah—thou dost not cut off my seed after me, nor dost thou destroy my name from the house of my father.' ²² And David sweareth to Saul, and Saul goeth unto his house, and David and his men have gone up unto the fortress.

²¹ And Saul saith, `I have sinned; turn back, my son David, for I do evil to thee no more, because that my soul hath been precious in thine eyes this day; lo, I have acted foolishly, and do err very greatly.' <sup>22</sup> And David answereth and saith, `Lo, the king's spear; and let one of the young men pass over, and receive it; ²³ and Jehovah doth turn back to each his righteousness and his faithfulness, in that Jehovah hath given thee to-day into my hand, and I have not been willing to put forth my hand against the anointed of Jehovah, ²⁴ and lo, as thy soul hath been great this day in mine eyes, so is my soul great in the eyes of Jehovah, and He doth deliver me out of all distress.' ²⁵ And Saul saith unto David, `Blessed art thou, my son David, also working thou dost work, and also prevailing thou dost prevail.' And David goeth on his way, and Saul hath turned back to his place.

⁵ And king David hath come in unto Bahurim, and lo, thence a man is coming out, of the family of the house of Saul, and his name is Shimei, son of Gera, he cometh out, coming out and reviling; ⁶ and he stoneth David with stones, and all the servants of king David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left.

²⁴ Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, ²⁵ Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

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

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

¹⁰ Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'

¹⁶ who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),

²⁹ If they were wise—They deal wisely with this; They attend to their latter end:

³⁷ Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each is peace.

¹² To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

¹⁴ Satisfy us at morn with Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

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.

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

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, <sup>20</sup> and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores, <sup>21</sup> and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores. <sup>22</sup> `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham—and the rich man also died, and was buried; ²³ and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

¹⁹ And they say one unto another, `Lo, this man of the dreams cometh; ²⁰ and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'

⁴ And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `Come nigh unto me, I pray you,' and they come nigh; and he saith, `I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt; ⁵ and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you. ⁶ `Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest; ⁷ and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape; ⁸ and now, ye—ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil—God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

²⁵ and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

¹³ And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired—and He doth it .

¹¹ For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

¹⁰ Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples. ¹¹ The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

⁴ They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

² The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

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

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

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

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

²⁹ See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they—they have sought out many devices.

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!

²⁴ Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts, saying, `As I thought—so hath it not been? And as I counselled—it standeth;

²⁶ This is the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out for all the nations. ²⁷ For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'

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.'

³⁵ 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?

²⁴ Peaceably even into the fertile places of the province He cometh, and he hath done that which his fathers did not, nor his fathers' fathers; prey, and spoil, and substance, to them he scattereth, and against fenced places he deviseth his devices, even for a time. ²⁵ `And he stirreth up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great force, and the king of the south stirreth himself up to battle with a very great and mighty force, and standeth not, for they devise devices against him,

⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him, ⁵ and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

⁶³ saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise; ⁶⁴ command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

²⁷ for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, ²⁸ to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

³⁸ and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown, ³⁹ and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

¹¹ in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

¹⁷ in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, ¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

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;

⁴ for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord—Jesus Christ—denying,

² and with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, and the silver for those of silver, and the brass for those of brass, the iron for those of iron, and the wood for those of wood, shoham stones, and settings, and stones of painting and of diverse colours, and all kinds of precious stone, and stones of white marble, in abundance. ³ `And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have—a peculiar treasure of gold and silver—I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:

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.

⁸ and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,

¹⁵ My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.

⁵ For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

⁹ Only—vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

¹ Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.

⁴¹ And Jesus having sat down over-against the treasury, was beholding how the multitude do put brass into the treasury, and many rich were putting in much, ⁴² and having come, a poor widow did put in two mites, which are a farthing. ⁴³ And having called near his disciples, he saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath put in more than all those putting into the treasury; ⁴⁴ for all, out of their abundance, put in, but she, out of her want, all that she had put in—all her living.'

⁶ And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me; ⁷ for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always; ⁸ what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.

² because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality; ³ because, according to their power, I testify, and above their power, they were willing of themselves,

¹² for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

² upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

⁹ The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous—together.

¹³ His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

¹⁸ Lo, the eye of Jehovah is to those fearing Him, To those waiting for His kindness, ¹⁹ To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.

⁹ Fear Jehovah, ye His holy ones, For there is no lack to those fearing Him. ¹⁰ Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
¹¹ Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

⁹ Only, near to those fearing Him is His salvation, That honour may dwell in our land.

¹⁶ With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah Is from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

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. ²⁰ Jehovah preserveth all those loving Him, And all the wicked He destroyeth.

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

²¹ No iniquity is desired by the righteous, And the wicked have been full of evil.

²⁶ In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge. ²⁷ The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

¹⁶ Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name. ¹⁷ And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing—a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him.

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.

⁶ `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness—because they shall be filled.

³¹ Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

²⁸ And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

¹¹ not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am—to be content; ¹² I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

⁸ for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

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,

¹⁸ and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save me —to his heavenly kingdom; to whom is the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁵ Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,' <sup>6</sup> so that we do boldly say, `The Lord is to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

¹¹ Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it .

²⁷ The slothful roasteth not his hunting, And the wealth of a diligent man is precious.

¹⁹ The way of the slothful is as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.

¹⁵ Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

³⁰ Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart. ³¹ And lo, it hath gone up—all of it—thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down. ³² And I see—I—I do set my heart, I have seen—I have received instruction, ³³ A little sleep—a little slumber—A little folding of the hands to lie down. ³⁴ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.'
¹⁴ The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.
¹⁵ The slothful hath hid his hand in a dish, He is weary of bringing it back to his mouth.
¹⁶ Wiser is the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven men returning a reason.

²³ And he answering said, `He who did dip with me the hand in the dish, he will deliver me up;

²⁰ And he answering said to them, `One of the twelve who is dipping with me in the dish;

¹¹ and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

²¹ and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

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. ¹⁰ The commencement of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.

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

¹⁰ Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

¹¹ When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise, And in giving understanding to the wise He receiveth knowledge.

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

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— ¹⁹ then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place, 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; ²¹ and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

⁵ Whoso is gathering in summer is a wise son, Whoso is sleeping in harvest is a son causing shame.

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

²² Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old. ²³ Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding, ²⁴ The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him. ²⁵ Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

⁷ Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

¹⁴ O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

²⁴ Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.

¹¹ A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

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.

¹² and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to me, and he divided to them the living. ¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; ¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want; ¹⁵ and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine, ¹⁶ and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

³⁰ but when thy son—this one who did devour thy living with harlots—came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

¹ `When there ariseth in your midst a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he hath given unto thee a sign or wonder, ² and the sign and the wonder hath come which he hath spoken of unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods (which thou hast not known), and serve them, ³ thou dost not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of the dream, for Jehovah your God is trying you, to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul; ⁴ after Jehovah your God ye walk, and Him ye fear, and His commands ye keep, and to His voice ye hearken, and Him ye serve, and to Him ye cleave.

²² and he saith, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice, and also thou art able; go out and do so. ²³ And now, lo, Jehovah hath put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah hath spoken concerning thee—evil.' ²⁴ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draweth nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, `Where is this—he hath passed over—the Spirit of Jehovah—from me to speak with thee?' <sup>25</sup> And Micaiah saith, `Lo, thou art seeing on that day, when thou goest in to the innermost chamber to be hidden.' ²⁶ And the king of Israel saith, `Take Micaiah, and turn him back unto Amon head of the city, and unto Joash son of the king, <sup>27</sup> and thou hast said, Thus said the king, Place ye this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace.' <sup>28</sup> And Micaiah saith, `If thou at all return in peace—Jehovah hath not spoken by me;' and he saith, `Hear, O peoples, all of them.'

⁷ Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

¹⁵ `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

⁶ and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

¹² Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

²⁴ And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;

⁶ and he answering said to them—`Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me; <sup>7</sup> and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings, commands of men; <sup>8</sup> for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.' <sup>9</sup> And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; ¹⁰ for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death; ¹¹ and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine, ¹² and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother, ¹³ setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.' ¹⁴ And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, `Hearken to me, ye all, and understand;

⁵ and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

¹³ for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, ¹⁴ and no wonder—for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; ¹⁵ no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness—whose end shall be according to their works.

¹⁴ that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

⁷ and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

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;

¹ And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, ² and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

¹ Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

¹⁰ if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!'

² I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

¹⁰ and cause two men—sons of worthlessness—to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'

¹³ and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

¹² Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, ¹³ Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,

⁷ Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

⁵ Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries—he puffeth at them.

¹¹ He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

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

¹⁴ Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that is in Jerusalem. 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.

⁸ The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

² saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city—God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding— ³ and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent, ⁴ and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

¹¹ then they suborned men, saying—`We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.' <sup>12</sup> They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim; <sup>13</sup> they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

³⁴ If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

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

¹³ In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod is for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

³ A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

²² And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is for all the land.

²⁰ For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,

⁴⁰ see, therefore, it may not come upon you that hath been spoken in the prophets: ⁴¹ See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I—I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare it to you.'

⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

³ this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on, ⁴ and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;' ⁵ for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God, ⁶ through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed; ⁷ and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.