Proverbs 22 Cross References - YLT

¹ A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold—good grace.
² Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all is Jehovah.
³ The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.
⁴ The end of humility is the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
⁵ Thorns—snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.
⁶ Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.
⁷ The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.
⁸ Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
⁹ The good of eye—he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.
¹⁰ Cast out a scorner—and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.
¹¹ Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace are his lips, a king is his friend.
¹² The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
¹⁴ A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
¹⁶ He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich—only to want.
¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, ¹⁸ For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips. ¹⁹ That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou. ²⁰ Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? ²¹ To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.
²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. ²³ For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.
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.
²⁶ Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens. ²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
²⁸ Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
²⁹ Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!

⁴⁷ and also the servants of the king have come into bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God doth make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and his throne greater than thy throne; and the king boweth himself on the bed,

¹ Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

²⁰ but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

¹⁰ and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him—governor over Egypt and all his house.

³ and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

³⁹ and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

⁷ Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

¹⁹ That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

¹ To the Overseer. —By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. ² Both low and high, together rich and needy.

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

¹³ The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, ²⁰ and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,

²¹ and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

² for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment, ³ and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou—sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou—stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' — ⁴ ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges. 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?

²⁰ He who is fearing the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh hath caused his servants and his cattle to flee unto the houses; ²¹ and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.

⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

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, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

¹⁶ `Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart—she said to him, <sup>17</sup> `Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.' ¹⁸ And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

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

¹² The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

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

²⁰ Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over. ²¹ For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

¹⁵ `Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe) ¹⁶ then those in Judea—let them flee to the mounts; ¹⁷ he on the house-top—let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house; ¹⁸ and he in the field—let him not turn back to take his garments.

² for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come, ³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape; ⁴ and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; ⁵ all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,
⁶ so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

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,

⁷ By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

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,

¹ Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly. ² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed. ³ Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour.

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

⁶ And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah—it is His treasure.

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

³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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

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

¹³ know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

⁸ For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

⁶ He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup.

²⁶ With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler, ²⁷ For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

¹ He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually,

³ Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips—ruin to him!

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

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

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

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

¹⁸ We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

²⁰ And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying, ²¹ yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ—to life age-during;

¹⁹ for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

⁹ `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

²⁸ and also I have caused him to be asked for Jehovah, all the days that he hath lived—he is asked for Jehovah;' and he boweth himself there before Jehovah.

²⁶ And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and is good both with Jehovah, and also with men.

² and now, lo, the king is walking habitually before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, lo, they are with you, and I have walked habitually before you from my youth till this day. ³ `Lo, here am I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? —and I restore to you.'

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

⁴ And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

¹ And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'

⁴ And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards; ⁵ and now, as the flesh of our brethren is our flesh, as their sons are our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards are to others.'

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

¹⁶ He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich—only to want.

²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

² And it hath been—as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting it on himself.

⁶ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.

¹ Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who are in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in, and we do drink.'

¹¹ Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine. ¹² For I have known—many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

⁴ Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

⁶ To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

²⁵ and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

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

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

⁸ As I have seen—ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

³ For the rod of wickedness resteth not On the lot of the righteous, That the righteous put not forth on iniquity their hands.

³ In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

⁴ Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

⁵ Woe to Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand is Mine indignation.

²⁹ Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit is a flying saraph.

³¹ For from the voice of Jehovah broken down is Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers do swallow it up.

¹³ Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

⁷ Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow—that also he shall reap, ⁸ because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

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.

⁵⁶ `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, ¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, ¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) ¹⁹ If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him. ² Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies. ³ Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.

⁹ He hath scattered—hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

²⁵ A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

¹⁷ Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

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

¹ Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it. ² Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.

⁸ And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

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, <sup>10</sup> 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. <sup>11</sup> 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. <sup>12</sup> And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one calleth thee, `Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.'

¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

³⁴ `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; <sup>35</sup> for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; <sup>36</sup> naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me. <sup>37</sup> `Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink? ³⁸ and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around? ³⁹ and when did we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee? 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 .

²² thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

³⁵ `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil; <sup>36</sup> be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.
<sup>37</sup> `And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released. 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.'

¹³ but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,

³⁵ all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

¹ And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, ² because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

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, ⁹ (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,') ¹⁰ and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,

¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate, ¹⁹ treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.

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;

¹⁶ and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

⁹ hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

⁹ and Sarah seeth the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she hath borne to Abraham, mocking, ¹⁰ and she saith to Abraham, `Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son—with Isaac.'

¹ And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard that we are building the wall, that it is displeasing to him, and he is very angry and mocketh at the Jews, ² and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What are the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? —and they burnt!' <sup>3</sup> And Tobiah the Ammonite is by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building—if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.'

²⁸ And one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest, is son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, and I cause him to flee from off me.

⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

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

²⁴ Proud, haughty, scorner is his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

²⁰ Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth, ²¹ Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

¹⁷ `And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

⁵ to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

¹³ and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

³⁹ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou; <sup>40</sup> thou—thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.' <sup>41</sup> And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.' ⁴² And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him with garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck, ⁴³ and causeth him to ride in the second chariot which he hath, and they proclaim before him, `Bow the knee!' and—to put him over all the land of Egypt. <sup>44</sup> And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `I am Pharaoh, and without thee a man doth not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt;' ⁴⁵ and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.
⁴⁶ And Joseph is a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goeth out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passeth over through all the land of Egypt; ⁴⁷ and the land maketh in the seven years of plenty by handfuls. ⁴⁸ And he gathereth all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and putteth food in the cities; the food of the field which is round about each city hath he put in its midst; ⁴⁹ and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number. ⁵⁰ And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine cometh, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him, ⁵¹ and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: `for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;' <sup>52</sup> and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: `for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.' ⁵³ And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt, ⁵⁴ and the seven years of famine begin to come, as Joseph said, and famine is in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt hath been bread; ⁵⁵ and all the land of Egypt is famished, and the people crieth unto Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh saith to all the Egyptians, `Go unto Joseph; that which he saith to you—do.' ⁵⁶ And the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph openeth all places which have corn in them, and selleth to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt, ⁵⁷ and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.

⁶ Ezra himself hath come up from Babylon, and he is a scribe ready in the law of Moses, that Jehovah God of Israel gave, and the king giveth to him—according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him—all his request. ⁷ And there go up of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. ⁸ And he cometh in to Jerusalem in the fifth month, that is in the seventh year of the king, ⁹ for on the first of the month he hath founded the ascent from Babylon, and on the first of the fifth month he hath come in unto Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him, ¹⁰ for Ezra hath prepared his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do, and to teach in Israel statute and judgment.
¹¹ And this is a copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commands of Jehovah, and of His statutes on Israel:

⁴ And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens, <sup>5</sup> and say to the king, `If to the king it be good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.' ⁶ And the king saith to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is thy journey? and when dost thou return?' and it is good before the king, and he sendeth me away, and I set to him a time.

³ For Mordecai the Jew is second to king Ahasuerus, and a great man of the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking good for his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

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

⁶ Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me.

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

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

⁴⁶ Then hath king Nebuchadnezzar fallen on his face, and to Daniel he hath done obeisance, and present, and sweet things, he hath said to pour out to him. ⁴⁷ The king hath answered Daniel and said, `Of a truth it is that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since thou hast been able to reveal this secret.' ⁴⁸ Then the king hath made Daniel great, and many great gifts he hath given to him, and hath caused him to rule over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the perfects over all the wise men of Babylon. ⁴⁹ And Daniel hath sought from the king, and he hath appointed over the work of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and Daniel is in the gate of the king.

³⁰ Then the king hath caused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to prosper in the province of Babylon.

²⁰ and at his coming near to the den, to Daniel, with a grieved voice, he crieth. The king hath answered and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, thy God, whom thou art serving continually, is He able to deliver thee from the lions?' ²¹ Then Daniel hath spoken with the king: `O king, to the ages live: ²² my God hath sent His messenger, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not injured me: because that before Him purity hath been found in me; and also before thee, O king, injury I have not done.' ²³ Then was the king very glad for him, and he hath commanded Daniel to be taken up out of the den, and Daniel hath been taken up out of the den, and no injury hath been found in him, because he hath believed in his God.

⁸ `Happy the clean in heart—because they shall see God.

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

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.'

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. ¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

¹⁹ And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun—His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him. ²⁰ And come to Zion hath a redeemer, Even to captives of transgression in Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah. ²¹ And I—this is My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that is on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

¹⁶ and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' <sup>17</sup> And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens. ¹⁸ `And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

³⁹ and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

⁹ And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one, ¹⁰ to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;' ¹¹ and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic. ¹² And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;

²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired. ²⁴ And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

⁸ and there withstood them Elymas the magian—for so is his name interpreted—seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ And Saul—who also is Paul—having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him, ¹⁰ said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ and now, lo, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead him by the hand; ¹² then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

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,

⁸ and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith; ⁹ but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

³ and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth; ⁴ these are the two olive trees, and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand; ⁵ and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed. ⁶ These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will. ⁷ `And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them, ⁸ and their dead bodies are upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,) ⁹ and they shall behold—they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations—their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs, ¹⁰ and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these—the two prophets—did torment those dwelling upon the land.' ¹¹ And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

¹⁴ and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent; ¹⁵ and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river, ¹⁶ and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth; ¹⁷ and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

³² and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied unto the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we passed over to spy it, is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst are men of stature; ³³ and there we saw the Nephilim, sons of Anak, of the Nephilim; and we are in our own eyes as grasshoppers; and so we were in their eyes.'

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.

¹⁹ And Jehovah seeth and despiseth—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

²⁰ and she saith, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him. ²¹ And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.

²⁶ `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel—even him did the strange women cause to sin.

¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, ¹⁷ Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. ¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. ¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, ⁴ And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths. ⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. ⁶ The path of life—lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths—thou knowest not. ⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, ⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, ¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, ¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. ¹⁴ As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. ¹⁷ Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, ¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. ²⁰ And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? ²¹ For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering. ²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. ²³ He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth. ²⁷ Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt? ²⁸ Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched? ²⁹ So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

⁵ To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
⁶ For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out, ⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding, ⁸ Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way to her house he doth step, ⁹ In the twilight—in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness. ¹⁰ And, lo, a woman to meet him—(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart, ¹¹ Noisy she is, and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not. ¹² Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) — ¹³ And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him, ¹⁴ `Sacrifices of peace-offerings are by me, To-day I have completed my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee. ¹⁶ With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works—cotton of Egypt. ¹⁷ I sprinkled my bed—myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves. ¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey. ²⁰ A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.' ²¹ She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. 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, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.
²⁴ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, ²⁶ For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones. ²⁷ The ways of Sheol—her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

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

¹⁸ Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

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.

⁶ that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

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; ¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield.

¹⁹ For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ²⁰ For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. ²¹ There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. ²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. ²⁴ He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. ²⁵ One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors. ²⁶ All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. ²⁷ Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. ²⁸ Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

⁵ Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. ²³ For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

³ A man—poor and oppressing the weak, Is a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

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

² And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance. ³ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it is .

⁹ `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another. ¹⁰ And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart. ¹¹ And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. ¹² And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts. ¹³ And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts. ¹⁴ And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!

³³ and if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful do the same; ³⁴ and if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners—that they may receive again as much. ³⁵ `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

¹² And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee; ¹³ but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind, ¹⁴ and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

²⁴ and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

¹³ for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you; ² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! ⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; ⁵ ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

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

³ For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,

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.

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

⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live. ⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee. ⁷ The first thing is wisdom—get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.

¹ My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, ² To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.

³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not. ³⁴ O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.

¹² Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

²⁵ I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

⁹ All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

¹⁶ When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

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

⁵ While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, —the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

¹⁸ For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast, ¹⁹ Lo, my breast is as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.

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

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

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

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart are they.

¹⁶² I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.

¹⁷¹ My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.

¹⁰ For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

⁶ Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness.

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

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

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

²¹ To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.

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

¹¹ Apples of gold in imagery of silver, Is the word spoken at its fit times.

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

⁷ For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he is .

³⁸ he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'

¹⁵ through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

⁸ Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God is a refuge for us. Selah.

⁵ Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

² Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.

⁴ Trust ye in Jehovah for ever, For in Jah Jehovah is a rock of ages,

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah.

²¹ who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

⁶ Sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.

¹² I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; ¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted—for every good work having been completed.

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise—in your hearts; ²⁰ this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, ²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

³ it seemed good also to me, having followed from the first after all things exactly, to write to thee in order, most noble Theophilus, ⁴ that thou mayest know the certainty of the things wherein thou wast instructed.

³¹ and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

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

¹³ These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

⁶ `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

¹² For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing. ¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice. ¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. ¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,

¹⁰ Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not, ¹¹ For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed—without judgment.

¹⁰ And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

⁵ And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹² `Jehovah doth judge between me and thee, and Jehovah hath avenged me of thee, and my hand is not on thee;

¹⁵ And Jehovah hath been for judge, and hath judged between me and thee, yea, he seeth and pleadeth my cause, and doth deliver me out of thy hand.'

³⁹ and David heareth that Nabal is dead, and saith, `Blessed is Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;' and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

¹ By David. Strive, Jehovah, with my strivers, fight with my fighters,

¹⁰ All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

¹ Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

⁵ Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

¹² I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

¹¹ For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.

¹ Woe, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, He doth thoroughly plead their cause, So as to cause the land to rest, And He hath given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon.

³⁶ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.

⁹ The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

⁸ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence to the land, To the city, and to all dwelling in it.

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

¹⁴ Become not yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? ¹⁵ and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said—`I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, ¹⁷ wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I—I will receive you,

³⁵ And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

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

³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

¹ My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, ² Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth, ³ Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend, ⁴ Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids, ⁵ Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

¹⁵ Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.

¹⁸ A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

¹³ Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

²⁶ if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him: ²⁷ for it alone is his covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I am gracious.

¹⁶ Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

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

¹⁷ `Cursed is he who is removing his neighbour's border, —and all the people have said, Amen.

² The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

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

⁴⁶ And Joseph is a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goeth out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passeth over through all the land of Egypt;

⁸ O the happiness of thy men, O the happiness of thy servants—these—who are standing before thee continually, who are hearing thy wisdom!

²⁸ and the man Jeroboam is mighty in valour, and Solomon seeth the young man that he is doing business, and appointeth him over all the burden of the house of Joseph.

⁴ Poor is he who is working—a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

²¹ `And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

²³ `His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

² preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,