Proverbs 23 Cross References - YLT

¹ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee, ² And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite. ³ Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.
⁴ Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not. ⁵ For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
⁶ Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties, ⁷ For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee. <sup>8</sup> Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that are sweet.
<sup>9</sup> In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
<sup>10</sup> Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not, <sup>11</sup> For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
<sup>12</sup> Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge. <sup>13</sup> Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. <sup>14</sup> Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest. <sup>15</sup> My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine, <sup>16</sup> And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
<sup>17</sup> Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of Jehovah all the day. <sup>18</sup> For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
<sup>19</sup> Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart, <sup>20</sup> Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh, <sup>21</sup> For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags. <sup>22</sup> Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old. <sup>23</sup> Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding, <sup>24</sup> The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him. <sup>25</sup> Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful. <sup>26</sup> Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways. <sup>27</sup> For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit. <sup>28</sup> She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
<sup>29</sup> Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? <sup>30</sup> Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine. <sup>31</sup> See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright. <sup>32</sup> Its latter end—as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth. <sup>33</sup> Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. <sup>34</sup> And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast. <sup>35</sup> `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!'

³² And they place for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who are eating with him by themselves: for the Egyptians are unable to eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians. ³³ And they sit before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the young one according to his youth, and the men wonder one at another; ³⁴ and he lifteth up gifts from before him unto them, and the gift of Benjamin is five hands more than the gifts of all of them; and they drink, yea, they drink abundantly with him.

¹² These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

⁸ `And if thy hand or thy foot doth cause thee to stumble, cut them off and cast from thee; it is good for thee to enter into the life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast to the fire the age-during. <sup>9</sup> `And if thine eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee; it is good for thee one-eyed to enter into the life, rather than having two eyes to be cast to the gehenna of the fire.

²⁷ but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

⁴ Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

⁶ Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,

⁸ And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.

³⁴ `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

²² ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

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

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

²⁷ A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

¹² Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

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

²¹ Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!

¹⁹ `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

²⁷ work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal—even God.'

²⁵ For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret—that ye may not be wise in your own conceits—that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

¹⁶ of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

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, ¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

⁵ Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

³⁶ and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take—against me have been all these.'

¹⁴ And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides, <sup>15</sup> and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.' <sup>16</sup> While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.' ¹⁷ While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

⁶ Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

³⁶ Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.
³⁷ Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

²⁴ For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

² Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

¹³ There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil. ¹⁴ And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

⁸ Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.

² Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

²⁹ And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened—that both those having wives may be as not having; ³⁰ and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing; ³¹ and those using this world, as not using it up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

¹⁷ Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; —

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;

¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,

⁹ `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;

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,

⁹ The good of eye—he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

³ Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.

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

⁸ And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself. ⁹ And God giveth Daniel for kindness and for mercies before the chief of the eunuchs; ¹⁰ and the chief of the eunuchs saith to Daniel, `I am fearing my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink, for why doth he see your faces sadder than those of the lads which are of your circle? then ye have made my head indebted to the king,'

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

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

¹⁵ And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is .'

²⁶ And Absalom saith, `If not—let, I pray thee, Amnon my brother go with us;' and the king saith to him, `Why doth he go with thee?' ²⁷ and Absalom urgeth on him, and he sendeth with him Amnon, and all the sons of the king. ²⁸ And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, `See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'

² Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

²¹ Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords .

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

²⁷ `And both of the kings' hearts are to do evil, and at one table they speak lies, and it doth not prosper, for yet the end is at a time appointed.

³ And lo, certain of the scribes said within themselves, `This one doth speak evil.' <sup>4</sup> And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, `Why think ye evil in your hearts?

³⁹ And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind is the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

³⁷ And in his speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat), ³⁸ and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner. ³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; <sup>40</sup> unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make? <sup>41</sup> But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you. <sup>42</sup> `But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting. ⁴³ `Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places. <sup>44</sup> `Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.' ⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;' <sup>46</sup> and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens. ⁴⁷ `Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. <sup>48</sup> Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs; <sup>49</sup> because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute, <sup>50</sup> that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; <sup>51</sup> from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation. <sup>52</sup> `Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.' ⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things, ⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

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

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

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him—even thou. ⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

²¹ And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'

⁶ `Ye may not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned—may rend you.

¹⁴ And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

⁵² The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death—to the age!

³⁰ The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes! <sup>31</sup> and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear; <sup>32</sup> from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind; <sup>33</sup> if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.' <sup>34</sup> They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

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

²⁰ and many of them said, `He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

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;

¹⁸ And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

³² And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;'

²⁵ And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word—`Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers, <sup>26</sup> saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, <sup>27</sup> for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them. <sup>28</sup> `Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'

²¹ for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing. ²² Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom, ²³ also we—we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness, ²⁴ and to those called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,

¹⁰ we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured; ¹¹ unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about, ¹² and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; ¹³ being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become—of all things an offscouring—till now.

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.

²⁷ Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

⁹ Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

² The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil. ³ The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

⁹ They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court, ²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. ²³ For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

⁶ Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

²⁸ Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.

⁵ For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,

³ Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

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.

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

²² `Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict; ²³ if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry; ²⁴ and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

¹⁹ `Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, —and all the people have said, Amen.

²⁵ That—I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

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.

²³ For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

³³ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Oppressed are the sons of Israel, And the sons of Judah together, And all their captors have kept hold on them, They have refused to send them away. 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.

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.

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

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,

¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

³¹ And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee—My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

⁵² And he said to them, `Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'

²¹ wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls; ²² and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, ²³ because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror, ²⁴ for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was; ²⁵ and he who did look into the perfect law—that of liberty, and did continue there, this one—not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work—this one shall be happy in his doing.

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.

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.

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

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.

³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

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

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.

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.

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

⁴¹ and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.

¹⁷ Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

² and lo, they were bringing to him a paralytic, laid upon a couch, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, `Be of good courage, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

²³ and having brought the fatted calf, kill it, and having eaten, we may be merry, ²⁴ because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

³² but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

¹¹ these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

⁵ Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `Lads, have ye any meat?'

¹⁹ for what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence? ²⁰ for ye are our glory and joy.

⁸ because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord; ⁹ for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

¹ My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

⁴ I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

³ for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk; ⁴ greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

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

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

⁴ also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, —the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving;

⁴ that I may manifest it, as it behoveth me to speak;

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

¹ By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity, ² For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade. ³ Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell in the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, ⁴ And their might is firm. ⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. ⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. ⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

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

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

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

¹ Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

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

⁷ For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

¹³ The end of the whole matter let us hear: —`Fear God, and keep His commands, for this is the whole of man. ¹⁴ For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

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.

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

¹⁷ and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

¹⁸ For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

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

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.

²⁰ For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

¹¹ For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you—an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

²⁵ `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

²¹ what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death. ²² And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

³⁵ Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee. ¹¹ In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness. ¹² In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not. ¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.
¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. ¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on. ¹⁶ For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. ¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink. ¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established, ¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
²⁰ My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear, ²¹ Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart. ²² For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing. ²³ Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

⁶ Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

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

²⁶ Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

¹ Wine is a scorner—strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰ Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine. ³¹ See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright. ³² Its latter end—as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth. ³³ Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. ³⁴ And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast. ³⁵ `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!'

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

⁶ Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul, ⁷ He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

¹¹ Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

²² Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

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.

⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

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;

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

¹³ as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

¹⁸ and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

³ for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
⁴ in which they think it strange—your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

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;

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, ¹¹ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

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

¹⁷ Whoso is loving mirth is a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

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!

¹ Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That is on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine. ² Lo, a mighty and strong one is to the Lord, As a storm of hail—a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand. ³ By feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,

⁵ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.

¹¹ and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—with such a one not even to eat together;

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

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

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.

¹⁶ `Cursed is He who is making light of his father and his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen.

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

²⁰ Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

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.

⁴ for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death; ⁵ but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; — ⁶ and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

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;

²⁶ Jesus, therefore, having seen his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' <sup>27</sup> afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, thy mother;' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own home .

¹ The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; ² honour thy father and mother,

¹² And the wisdom—whence is it found? And where is this, the place of understanding? ¹³ Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.
¹⁴ The deep hath said, `It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, `It is not with me.' ¹⁵ Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed—its price. ¹⁶ It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire, ¹⁷ Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor is its exchange a vessel of fine gold. ¹⁸ Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom is above rubies. ¹⁹ Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is not valued.

⁷² Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

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

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 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.

¹⁶ To get wisdom—how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!

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

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

¹ Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it.

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?

²³ save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss; ⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

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

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

¹¹ and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life—unto death;

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

¹ And draw near do the days of David to die, and he chargeth Solomon his son, saying, ² `I am going in the way of all the earth, and thou hast been strong, and become a man, ³ and kept the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that thou dost wisely all that thou dost, and whithersoever thou turnest,

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.'

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

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.

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

²⁰ Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

⁹ And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, `Because I have brought forth with grief.' <sup>10</sup> And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, `If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept me from evil—not to grieve me;' and God bringeth in that which he asked.

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

³¹ and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus; ³² he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father, ³³ and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.'

⁴⁰ and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. ⁴¹ And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, ⁴² and spake out with a loud voice, and said, `Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb; <sup>43</sup> and whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me? <sup>44</sup> for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb; <sup>45</sup> and happy is she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.' <sup>46</sup> And Mary said, `My soul doth magnify the Lord, ⁴⁷ And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour,

⁵⁸ and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

²⁷ And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!' <sup>28</sup> And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

⁵ and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

⁴³ Who is wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!

² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

⁹ Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe—according to Thy word.
¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.
¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

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.

²³ Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

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

⁹ Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

³⁷ `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me, ³⁸ and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

²⁶ `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, ¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

⁵ and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

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;

¹⁴ A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

¹ And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

⁴ And it cometh to pass afterwards that he loveth a woman in the valley of Sorek, and her name is Delilah, ⁵ and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, `Entice him, and see wherein his great power is, and wherein we are able for him—and we have bound him to afflict him, and we—we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.' <sup>6</sup> And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power is, and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.' ⁷ And Samson saith unto her, `If they bind me with seven green withs which have not been dried, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.' <sup>8</sup> And the princes of the Philistines bring up to her seven green withs which have not been dried, and she bindeth him with them. <sup>9</sup> And the ambush is abiding with her in an inner chamber, and she saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he breaketh the withs as a thread of tow is broken in its smelling fire, and his power hath not been known. ¹⁰ And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Lo, thou hast played upon me, and speakest unto me lies; now, declare, I pray thee, to me, wherewith thou art bound.' <sup>11</sup> And he saith unto her, `If they certainly bind me with thick bands, new ones, by which work hath not been done, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.' ¹² And Delilah taketh thick bands, new ones, and bindeth him with them, and saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and the ambush is abiding in an inner chamber, and he breaketh them from off his arms as a thread. <sup>13</sup> And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Hitherto thou hast played upon me, and dost speak unto me lies; declare to me wherewith thou art bound.' And he saith unto her, `If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.' <sup>14</sup> And she fixeth it with the pin, and saith unto him, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web. ¹⁵ And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is .' <sup>16</sup> And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death, <sup>17</sup> that he declareth to her all his heart, and saith to her, `A razor hath not gone up on my head, for a Nazarite to God I am from the womb of my mother; if I have been shaven, then hath my power turned aside from me, and I have been weak, and have been as any of the human race.'
¹⁸ And Delilah seeth that he hath declared to her all his heart, and she sendeth and calleth for the princes of the Philistines, saying, `Come up this time, for he hath declared to me all his heart;' and the princes of the Philistines have come up unto her, and bring up the money in their hand. <sup>19</sup> and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him; <sup>20</sup> 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.
²² And the hair of his head beginneth to shoot up, when he hath been shaven,

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.

¹² Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) —

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!

¹⁸ And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

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.

² Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.

¹¹ Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

⁸ neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

¹ And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'

¹² Red are eyes with wine, And white are teeth with milk!

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. ³⁷ And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone.

²⁸ And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, `See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'

¹⁶ and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking—drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings, helping him. ¹⁷ And the young men of the heads of the provinces go out at the first, and Ben-Hadad sendeth, and they declare to him, saying, `Men have come out of Samaria.' <sup>18</sup> And he saith, `If for peace they have come out—catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out—alive catch them.' ¹⁹ And these have gone out of the city—the young men of the heads of the provinces—and the force that is after them, ²⁰ and smite each his man, and Aram fleeth, and Israel pursueth them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escapeth on a horse, and the horsemen; ²¹ and the king of Israel goeth out, and smiteth the horses, and the charioteers, and hath smitten among the Aramaeans a great smiting.
²² And the prophet cometh nigh unto the king of Israel, and saith to him, `Go, strengthen thyself, and know and see that which thou dost, for at the turn of the year the king of Aram is coming up against thee.'

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

⁷ And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially. ⁸ For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth—without place!

¹⁰ For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

⁴⁵ `And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

²¹ and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

⁸ For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth,

² She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.

⁶ Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

² and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

¹ And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and to all my words give ear.

³⁷ Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

²⁸ but I—I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. <sup>30</sup> `And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

⁴⁷ And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire—

⁵ and the Egyptians have known that I am Jehovah, in My stretching out My hand against Egypt; and I have brought out the sons of Israel from their midst.' ⁶ And Moses doth—Aaron also—as Jehovah commanded them; so have they done;

¹² and they cast down each his rod, and they become monsters, and the rod of Aaron swalloweth their rods;

¹⁶ Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

⁸ Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

³ By feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,

⁵ Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.

³¹ The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?

¹⁷ For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁹ As when one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him.

³ And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them.

²⁵ `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed; ²⁶ and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

²¹ what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

³² come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father—a seed.' ³³ And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with her father, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. ³⁴ And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith unto the younger, `Lo, I have lain yesterday-night with my father: we cause him to drink wine also to-night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we preserve from our father—a seed.' ³⁵ And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger riseth and lieth with him, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. ³⁶ And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father, ³⁷ and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he is father of Moab unto this day; ³⁸ as to the younger, she also hath born a son, and calleth his name Ben-Ammi: he is father of the Beni-Ammon unto this day.

¹² Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, And those drinking strong drink, Play on instruments.

¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

⁵ Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

⁴ they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

⁵ A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

¹² These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up; ¹³ wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

⁸ And by the spirit of Thine anger Have waters been heaped together; Stood as a heap have flowings; Congealed have been depths In the heart of a sea.

³³ and blessed is thy discretion, and blessed art thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself. ³⁴ And yet, Jehovah liveth, God of Israel, who hath kept me back from doing evil with thee, for unless thou hadst hasted, and dost come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall.' ³⁵ And David receiveth from her hand that which she hath brought to him, and to her he hath said, `Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and accept thy face.'
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. ³⁷ And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone. ³⁸ And it cometh to pass, in about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,

¹⁶ And he bringeth him down, and lo, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and feasting, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. ¹⁷ And David smiteth them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow, and there hath not escaped of them a man, except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels, and are fled.

⁹ and conspire against him doth his servant Zimri (head of the half of the chariots) and he is in Tirzah drinking—a drunkard in the house of Arza, who is over the house in Tirzah.

³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; ²⁸ in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

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, ⁷ for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

¹⁹ `And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

¹¹ As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.

²² If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things—with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

¹² `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great—exceeding abundant!'

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

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.

³² if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die! ³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners; ³⁴ awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it .

¹⁹ who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

²² and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself—to rolling in mire.'