Proverbs 24 Cross References - YLT

¹ Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them. ² For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
³ By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself. ⁴ And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, With all precious and pleasant wealth. ⁵ Mighty is the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power, ⁶ For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.
⁷ Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth. ⁸ Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts. ⁹ The thought of folly is sin, And an abomination to man is a scorner.
¹⁰ Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
¹¹ If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter—thou keepest back. ¹² When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.
<sup>13</sup> Eat my son, honey that is good, And the honeycomb—sweet to thy palate. <sup>14</sup> 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.
<sup>15</sup> Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place. <sup>16</sup> For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.
<sup>17</sup> In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful, <sup>18</sup> Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.
<sup>19</sup> Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked, <sup>20</sup> For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
<sup>21</sup> Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself, <sup>22</sup> For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both—who knoweth!
<sup>23</sup> These also are for the wise: —To discern faces in judgment is not good. <sup>24</sup> Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou art righteous,' Peoples execrate him—nations abhor him. ²⁵ And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing. ²⁶ Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words.
²⁷ Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field—go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.
²⁸ Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips. ²⁹ Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.'
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!

¹⁰ And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar, ¹¹ and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted—a man from his companion; ¹² Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom; ¹³ and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

¹ And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself—face to the earth, ² and he saith, `Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet—then ye have risen early and gone on your way;' and they say, `Nay, but in the broad place we do lodge.' ³ And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat.
⁴ Before they lie down, the men of the city—men of Sodom—have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity; ⁵ and they call unto Lot and say to him, `Where are the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.' <sup>6</sup> And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him, <sup>7</sup> and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil; ⁸ lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.' ⁹ And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than to them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door. ¹⁰ And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door; ¹¹ and the men who are at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.

⁹ Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life,

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

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

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, ¹² We swallow them as Sheol—alive, And whole—as those going down to the pit, ¹³ Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, ¹⁴ Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is—to all of us.' ¹⁵ My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

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

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

¹⁷ Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

¹⁹ Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, 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.

⁵ Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' <sup>6</sup> 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?'

⁹ And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil, and saith unto Abiathar the priest, `Bring nigh the ephod.'

⁶ and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.
⁷ In the first month—it is the month of Nisan—in the twelfth year of the king Ahasuerus, hath one caused to fall Pur (that is the lot) before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth, it is the month of Adar.

³⁵ To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

¹⁴ Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

⁷ Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

³ Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

⁴ Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

⁴ To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. ⁵ They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' <sup>6</sup> They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

² Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars.

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

⁸ Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.

⁴ There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

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

³ Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas; ⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him,

²⁰ Pilate again then—wishing to release Jesus—called to them, ²¹ but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify 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?

²⁶ And Thy Name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts is God over Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee,

¹ Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars—seven.

¹ Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

¹² The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

⁹ for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

⁷ being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.

²² And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal; ²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and a hundred sheep, apart from hart, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls, ²⁴ for he is ruling over all beyond the river, from Tiphsah and unto Gaza, over all the kings beyond the river, and he hath peace from all his servants round about. ²⁵ And Judah dwelleth—and Israel—in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig-tree, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, all the days of Solomon. ²⁶ And Solomon hath forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷ And these officers have sustained king Solomon and every one drawing near unto the table of king Solomon, each in his month; they let nothing be lacking. ²⁸ And the barley and the straw, for horses and for dromedaries, they bring in unto the place where they are, each according to his ordinance.

²⁵ And over the treasures of the king is Azmaveth son of Adiel; and over the treasures in the field, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, is Jehonathan son of Uzziah; ²⁶ and over workmen of the field for the service of the ground is Ezri son of Chelub; ²⁷ and over the vineyards is Shimei the Ramathite; and over what is in the vineyards for the treasures of wine is Zabdi the Shiphmite; ²⁸ and over the olives, and the sycamores, that are in the low country, is Baal-Hanan the Gederite; and over the treasures of oil is Joash; ²⁹ and over the herds that are feeding in Sharon is Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds in the valleys is Shaphat son of Adlai; ³⁰ and over the camels is Obil the Ishmeelite; and over the asses is Jehdeiah the Meronothite; ³¹ and over the flock is Jaziz the Hagerite; all these are heads of the substance that king David hath.

² and with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, and the silver for those of silver, and the brass for those of brass, the iron for those of iron, and the wood for those of wood, shoham stones, and settings, and stones of painting and of diverse colours, and all kinds of precious stone, and stones of white marble, in abundance. ³ `And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have—a peculiar treasure of gold and silver—I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: ⁴ three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses, ⁵ even gold for things of gold, and silver for those of silver, and for all the work by the hand of artificers; and who is he that is offering willingly to consecrate his hand to-day to Jehovah?' ⁶ And the heads of the fathers, and the heads of the tribes of Israel, and the heads of the thousands, and of the hundreds, even to the heads of the work of the king, offer willingly. ⁷ And they give for the service of the house of God, of gold—talents five thousand, and drams a myriad; and of silver—talents ten thousand, and of brass—a myriad and eight thousand talents; and of iron—a hundred thousand talents; ⁸ and he with whom stones are found hath given to the treasury of the house of Jehovah, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. ⁹ And the people rejoice because of their offering willingly, for with a perfect heart they have offered willingly to Jehovah; and also David the king hath rejoiced—great joy.

¹⁸ And Solomon maketh all these vessels in great abundance, that the weight of the brass hath not been searched out. ¹⁹ And Solomon maketh all the vessels that are for the house of God, and the altar of gold, and the tables, and on them is bread of the presence; ²⁰ and the candlesticks, and their lamps, for their burning according to the ordinance, before the oracle, of gold refined; ²¹ and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold—it is the perfection of gold; ²² and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the censers, of gold refined, and the opening of the house, its innermost doors to the holy of holies, and the doors of the house to the temple, of gold.

⁴ And he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Amaziah his father did, ⁵ and he is as one seeking God in the days of Zechariah who hath understanding in visions of God: and in the days of his seeking Jehovah, God hath caused him to prosper. ⁶ And he goeth forth, and fighteth with the Philistines, and breaketh down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and buildeth cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. ⁷ And God helpeth him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who are dwelling in Gur-Baal and the Mehunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites give a present to Uzziah, and his name goeth unto the entering in of Egypt, for he strengthened himself greatly. ⁹ And Uzziah buildeth towers in Jerusalem, by the gate of the corner, and by the gate of the valley, and by the angle, and strengtheneth them; ¹⁰ and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground. ¹¹ And Uzziah hath a force, making war, going forth to the host, by troops, in the number of their reckoning by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Masseiah the officer, by the hand of Hananiah one of the heads of the king.

³⁹ for unto the chambers do they bring in—the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi—the heave-offering of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, and there are vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests, those ministering, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and we do not forsake the house of our God.

⁵ and he maketh for him a great chamber, and there they were formerly putting the present, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, the new wine, and the oil—the commanded thing of the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers—and the heave-offering of the priests. ⁶ And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon did I come unto the king, and at the end of days I have asked of the king, ⁷ and I come in to Jerusalem, and understand concerning the evil that Eliashib hath done for Tobiah, to make to him a chamber in the courts of the house of God, ⁸ and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without, out of the chamber, ⁹ and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.
¹⁰ And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field—the Levites and the singers, doing the work. ¹¹ And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station; ¹² and all Judah have brought in the tithe of the corn, and of the new wine, and of the oil, to the treasuries. ¹³ And I appoint treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites; and by their hand is Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for stedfast they have been reckoned, and on them it is to give a portion to their brethren.

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

⁶ In the house of the righteous is abundant strength, And in the increase of the wicked—trouble.

¹⁵ Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, are lips of knowledge.

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

²³ Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves, ²⁴ For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation. ²⁵ Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains. ²⁶ Lambs are for thy clothing, And the price of the field are he-goats, ²⁷ And a sufficiency of goats' milk is for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!

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.'

⁷ They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.

¹⁴ Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might.

²⁹ The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

²² A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.

¹⁹ The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.

¹⁴ A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks; ¹⁵ and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man! ¹⁶ And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' — ¹⁷ The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools. ¹⁸ Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

¹¹ in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

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

²² Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

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

³¹ `Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?

²⁵ and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; ²⁶ I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; ²⁷ but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.

¹⁰ As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; ¹¹ put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, ¹² because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places; ¹³ because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done—to stand. ¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness, ¹⁵ and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace; ¹⁶ above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench, ¹⁷ and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God, ¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—
¹⁹ and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely—as it behoveth me to speak.

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness; ¹² be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

⁷ the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

⁷ When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat. ⁸ Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen—they stood up. ⁹ Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth. ¹⁰ The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me. 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. ¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.' ¹⁹ My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch. ²⁰ My honour is fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed. ²¹ To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel. ²² After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop, ²³ And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain. ²⁴ I laugh unto them—they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall. ²⁵ I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

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

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

⁵ How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts. ⁶ A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; —

⁶ A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent is easy.

²⁴ A path of life is on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

²⁴ The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool—at the end of the earth.

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

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

²¹ Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

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

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.

¹⁵ Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;

⁴⁴ And the king saith unto Shimei, `Thou hast known all the evil that thy heart hath known, which thou didst to David my father, and Jehovah hath turned back thine evil on thy head,

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

¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil—

²² Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good,

² For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

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

⁷ And he—he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For—to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few. ⁸ For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings? <sup>9</sup> Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? <sup>10</sup> As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, Greater than Jerusalem and than Samaria, <sup>11</sup> Do I not—as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things? <sup>12</sup> And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes. <sup>13</sup> For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

⁷ And the miser—his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

¹⁰ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And it hath come to pass in that day, Come up do things on thy heart, And thou hast thought an evil thought, ¹¹ And thou hast said: I go up against a land of unwalled villages, I go in to those at rest, dwelling confidently, All of them are dwelling without walls, And bar and doors they have not.

¹¹ From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah—a worthless counsellor.

³⁰ evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

⁵ And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

²¹ and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

¹¹³ Samech. Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

¹⁰ Cast out a scorner—and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

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.

⁸ Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.

⁷ Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

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

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.

⁴ And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, `Why think ye evil in your hearts?

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

²² reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,

⁵ reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

¹ And David saith unto his heart, `Now am I consumed one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing for me better than that I diligently escape unto the land of the Philistines, and Saul hath been despairing of me—of seeking me any more in all the border of Israel, and I have escaped out of his hand.'

⁵ But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

²⁸ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age—Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding. ²⁹ He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might. ³⁰ Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble, ³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

⁴⁶ And lest your heart be tender, And ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And come in a year hath the report, And after it in a year the report, And violence is in the land, ruler against ruler;

⁸ for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

¹ Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

¹³ wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
⁴ Not yet unto blood did ye resist—with the sin striving; ⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

³ and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

¹³ I have known thy works, and where thou dost dwell—where the throne of the Adversary is —and thou dost hold fast my name, and thou didst not deny my faith, even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was put to death beside you, where the Adversary doth dwell.

⁸ And Abishai saith unto David, `God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once—and I do repeat it to him.' <sup>9</sup> And David saith unto Abishai, `Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?'

¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

⁴ Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

⁶ Is not this the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off? 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?

³¹ `And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side; ³² and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side.

²³ And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing, ²⁴ and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done, ²⁵ and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.

¹⁷ and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating him before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.

³¹ and they seeking to kill him, a rumour came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem hath been thrown into confusion, ³² who, at once, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them, and they having seen the chief captain and the soldiers, did leave off beating Paul.

¹⁰ and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring him to the castle.

²³ and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, `Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night; <sup>24</sup> beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;' <sup>25</sup> he having written a letter after this description: <sup>26</sup> `Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail: ²⁷ This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them—having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman; ²⁸ and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim, ²⁹ whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds; ³⁰ and a plot having been intimated to me against this man—about to be of the Jews—at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.' ³¹ Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris, ³² and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle; ³³ those having entered into Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, did present also Paul to him. ³⁴ And the governor having read it, and inquired of what province he is, and understood that he is from Cilicia; ³⁵ `I will hear thee—said he—when thine accusers also may have come;' he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

¹⁶ in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; ¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him?

⁶ Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

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

²⁹ And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

¹¹ For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.

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

³ Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

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

¹² And with Thee, O Lord, is kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!

⁹ Who hath placed our soul in life, And suffered not our feet to be moved.

³ He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.

⁸ Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

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

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

⁸ If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

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

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

²³ and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand is thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

²⁷ `For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.

²⁸ for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

⁶ who shall render to each according to his works;

¹⁶ in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

¹⁰ for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things done through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

¹² for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart; ¹³ and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes—with whom is our reckoning.

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

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

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

¹² and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls—according to their works; ¹³ and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works; ¹⁴ and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire—this is the second death; ¹⁵ and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

¹² And lo, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to render to each as his work shall be;

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

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

¹⁶ Honey thou hast found—eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.

²⁷ The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour—honour.

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

¹ I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

¹⁵ Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.

⁴ And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb. ¹¹ Also—Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them is a great reward.'

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

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, ² To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, ³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, ⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, ⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

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

¹³ O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding. ¹⁴ For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold—her increase. ¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. ¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.

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

¹⁸ For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

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.

²¹ Jesus said to him, `If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'

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.

¹¹ They are going up in the ascent of the city, and have found young women going out to draw water, and say to them, `Is the seer in this place ?'

¹⁸ And the king saith to Doeg, `Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod, ¹⁹ and Nob, the city of the priests, he hath smitten by the mouth of the sword, from man even unto woman, from infant even unto suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, by the mouth of the sword.

²⁰ And, now, by all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down, and ours is to shut him up into the hand of the king.' ²¹ And Saul saith, `Blessed are ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me; ²² go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his foot is; who hath seen him there? for one hath said unto me, He is very subtile. ²³ And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'

⁸ He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, ⁹ He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net. ¹⁰ He is bruised—he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

³² The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

⁶ They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

³ For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

⁵ The proud hid a snare for me—and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

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

¹⁸ And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.

¹⁹ And I am as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.

⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him,

²⁴ and their counsel against him was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,

¹⁶ And the son of Paul's sister having heard of the lying in wait, having gone and entered into the castle, told Paul,

³ asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

¹⁰ And David saith, `Jehovah liveth; except Jehovah doth smite him, or his day come that he hath died, or into battle he go down, and hath been consumed—

⁴ and Saul saith to the bearer of his weapons, `Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come—these uncircumcised—and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me;' and the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it.

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

¹⁹ In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.

¹⁶ Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

²⁴ When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

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

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falleth into evil, And a faithful ambassador is healing.

³² In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

¹⁴ O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.
¹⁵ A growling lion, and a ranging bear, Is the wicked ruler over a poor people.
¹⁶ A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.
¹⁷ A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
¹⁸ Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

² `Fallen, not again to rise, hath the virgin of Israel, Left on her land—she hath no raiser up.'

¹⁴ Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen—and rise not again!'

⁸ Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me. 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. ¹⁰ And see doth mine enemy, And cover her doth shame, Who saith unto me, `Where is Jehovah thy God?' Mine eyes do look on her, Now she is for a treading-place, As mire of the out-places.

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.

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life; ⁹ but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, ¹⁰ who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

⁸ on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, ¹¹ for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh, ¹² so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

²³ ministrants of Christ are they? —as beside myself I speak—I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; ²⁴ from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive; ²⁵ thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; ²⁶ journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

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;

²⁰ `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!' <sup>21</sup> And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast it to the sea, saying, `Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;

²⁵ And it cometh to pass, when their heart is glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars.

⁵ And king David hath come in unto Bahurim, and lo, thence a man is coming out, of the family of the house of Saul, and his name is Shimei, son of Gera, he cometh out, coming out and reviling; ⁶ and he stoneth David with stones, and all the servants of king David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left. ⁷ And thus said Shimei in his reviling, `Go out, go out, O man of blood, and man of worthlessness! <sup>8</sup> Jehovah hath turned back on thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned, and Jehovah doth give the kingdom in to the hand of Absalom thy son; and lo, thou art in thine evil, for a man of blood thou art .' <sup>9</sup> And Abishai son of Zeruiah saith unto the king, `Why doth this dead dog revile my lord the king? let me pass over, I pray thee, and I turn aside his head.' ¹⁰ And the king saith, `What—to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah? for—let him revile; even because Jehovah hath said to him, Revile David; and who saith, Wherefore hast Thou done so?' <sup>11</sup> And David saith unto Abishai, and unto all his servants, `Lo, my son who came out of my bowels is seeking my life, and also surely now the Benjamite; leave him alone, and let him revile, for Jehovah hath said so to him; ¹² it may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.' ¹³ And David goeth with his men in the way, and Shimei is going at the side of the hill over-against him, going on, and he revileth, and stoneth with stones over-against him, and hath dusted with dust. ¹⁴ And the king cometh in, and all the people who are with him, wearied, and they are refreshed there.

²⁹ If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

¹⁵ And—in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

¹⁹ Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.

¹⁰ With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'

⁵ Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.

¹² And—thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.

⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; ⁷ all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

²¹ Joy and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, Dwelling in the land of Uz, Even unto thee pass over doth a cup, Thou art drunk, and makest thyself naked. ²² Completed is thy iniquity, daughter of Zion, He doth not add to remove thee, He hath inspected thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He hath removed thee because of thy sins!

¹⁵ And with great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted—for evil. ¹⁶ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: I have turned to Jerusalem with mercies, My house is built in it, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And a line is stretched over Jerusalem.

²⁶ and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.'

¹ O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

⁴ I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not. ⁵ I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

¹¹⁵ Turn aside from me, ye evil-doers, And I keep the commands of my God.

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

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,

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

² for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, ³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good, ⁴ traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

⁴ And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues, ⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. ⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

¹⁷ How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

¹⁷ The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

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

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

²⁰ Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

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

¹² but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness—there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

⁸ and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

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.

³¹ and Israel seeth the great hand with which Jehovah hath wrought against the Egyptians, and the people fear Jehovah, and remain stedfast in Jehovah, and in Moses His servant.

¹ And Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, taketh both Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, ² and they rise up before Moses, with men of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty, princes of the company, called of the convention, men of name, ³ and they are assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and say unto them, `Enough of you! for all the company—all of them are holy, and in their midst is Jehovah; and wherefore do ye lift yourselves up above the assembly of Jehovah?'

⁵ and say unto him, `Lo, thou hast become aged, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations.' <sup>6</sup> And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto Jehovah. ⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

¹² `And ye see that Nahash king of the Bene-Ammon hath come against you, and ye say to me, Nay, but a king doth reign over us; and Jehovah your God is your king! <sup>13</sup> And, now, lo, the king whom ye have chosen—whom ye have asked! and lo, Jehovah hath placed over you a king. <sup>14</sup> `If ye fear Jehovah, and have served Him, and hearkened to His voice, then ye do not provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and ye have been—both ye and the king who hath reigned over you—after Jehovah your God. ¹⁵ `And if ye do not hearken to the voice of Jehovah—then ye have provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and the hand of Jehovah hath been against you, and against your fathers.
<sup>16</sup> `Also now, station yourselves and see this great thing which Jehovah is doing before your eyes; ¹⁷ is it not wheat-harvest to-day? I call unto Jehovah, and He doth give voices and rain; and know ye and see that your evil is great which ye have done in the eyes of Jehovah, to ask for you a king.' ¹⁸ And Samuel calleth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Jehovah and Samuel; ¹⁹ and all the people say unto Samuel, `Pray for thy servants unto Jehovah thy God, and we do not die, for we have added to all our sins evil to ask for us a king.'

⁶ and he saith to his men, `Far be it from me, by Jehovah; I do not do this thing to my lord—to the anointed of Jehovah—to put forth my hand against him, for the anointed of Jehovah he is .'

¹³ And he who is declaring tidings cometh in unto David, saying, `The heart of the men of Israel hath been after Absalom.' <sup>14</sup> And David saith to all his servants who are with him in Jerusalem, `Rise, and we flee, for we have no escape from the face of Absalom; haste to go, lest he hasten, and have overtaken us, and forced on us evil, and smitten the city by the mouth of the sword.' ¹⁵ And the servants of the king say unto the king, `According to all that my lord the king chooseth—lo, thy servants do .' <sup>16</sup> And the king goeth out, and all his household at his feet, and the king leaveth ten women—concubines—to keep the house. <sup>17</sup> And the king goeth out, and all the people at his feet, and they stand still at the farthest off house. <sup>18</sup> And all his servants are passing on at his side, and all the Cherethite, and all the Pelethite, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came at his feet from Gath, are passing on at the front of the king. <sup>19</sup> And the king saith unto Ittai the Gittite, `Why dost thou go—thou also—with us? turn back—and abide with the king, for thou art a stranger, and also an exile thou—to thy place. ²⁰ Yesterday is thy coming in, and to-day I move thee to go with us, and I am going on that which I am going! —turn back, and take back thy brethren with thee, —kindness and truth.' ²¹ And Ittai answereth the king and saith, `Jehovah liveth, and my lord the king liveth, surely in the place where my lord the king is—if for death, if for life, surely there is thy servant.' <sup>22</sup> And David saith unto Ittai, `Go and pass over;' and Ittai the Gittite passeth over, and all his men, and all the infants who are with him. ²³ And all the land are weeping—a great voice, and all the people are passing over; and the king is passing over through the brook Kidron, and all the people are passing over on the front of the way of the wilderness;
²⁴ and lo, also Zadok, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God, and they make the ark of God firm, and Abiathar goeth up, till the completion of all the people to pass over out of the city. ²⁵ And the king saith to Zadok, `Take back the ark of God to the city; if I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He hath brought me back, and shewn me it and His habitation; <sup>26</sup> and if thus He say, I have not delighted in thee; here am I, He doth to me as is good in His eyes.' <sup>27</sup> And the king saith unto Zadok the priest, `Art thou a seer? turn back to the city in peace, and Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan son of Abiathar, your two sons with you; ²⁸ see ye, I am tarrying in the plains of the wilderness till the coming in of a word from you to declare to me.' ²⁹ And Zadok taketh back—and Abiathar—the ark of God to Jerusalem, and they abide there. ³⁰ And David is going up in the ascent of the olives, going up and weeping, and he hath the head covered, and he is going barefooted, and all the people who are with him have covered each his head, and have gone up, going up and weeping;
³¹ and David declared, saying, `Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, `Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.' ³² And it cometh to pass, David hath come unto the top, where he boweth himself to God, and lo, to meet him is Hushai the Archite, his coat rent, and earth on his head; ³³ and David saith to him, `If thou hast passed on with me then thou hast been on me for a burden, ³⁴ and if to the city thou dost turn back, and hast said to Absalom, Thy servant I am, O king; servant of thy father I am also hitherto, and now, I am also thy servant; then thou hast made void for me the counsel of Ahithophel; ³⁵ and are there not with thee there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? and it hath been, the whole of the matter that thou hearest from the house of the king thou dost declare to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests. ³⁶ Lo, there with them are their two sons, Ahimaaz to Zadok, and Jonathan to Abiathar, and ye have sent by their hand unto me anything that ye hear.' ³⁷ And Hushai, David's friend, cometh in to the city, and Absalom cometh in to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And all Israel see that the king hath not hearkened unto them, and the people send the king back word, saying, `What portion have we in David? yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to thy tents, O Israel; now see thy house, O David!' and Israel goeth to its tents.

² I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God. ³ Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth. ⁴ Where the word of a king is power is, and who saith to him, `What dost thou?' ⁵ Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.

²¹ they say to him, `Caesar's;' then saith he to them, `Render therefore the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'

¹ Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, ² so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment. ³ For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it, ⁴ for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil. ⁵ Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience, ⁶ for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;
⁷ render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.

¹ Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

¹³ Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest, ¹⁴ whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good; ¹⁵ because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men; ¹⁶ as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God; ¹⁷ to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

³¹ And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which is under them cleaveth, ³² and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who are for Korah, and all the goods, ³³ and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly; ³⁴ and all Israel who are round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, `Lest the earth swallow us;'
³⁵ and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume.

¹ And the Philistines are fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel flee from the face of the Philistines, and fall wounded in mount Gilboa, ² and the Philistines follow Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smite Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, sons of Saul. ³ And the battle is hard against Saul, and the archers find him—men with bow—and he is pained greatly by the archers; ⁴ and Saul saith to the bearer of his weapons, `Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come—these uncircumcised—and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me;' and the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it. ⁵ And the bearer of his weapons seeth that Saul is dead, and he falleth—he also—on his sword, and dieth with him; ⁶ and Saul dieth, and three of his sons, and the bearer of his weapons, also all his men, on that day together. ⁷ And they see—the men of Israel, who are beyond the valley, and who are beyond the Jordan—that the men of Israel have fled, and that Saul and his sons have died, and they forsake the cities and flee, and Philistines come in, and dwell in them.

⁷ and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day—twenty thousand; ⁸ and the battle is there scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplieth to devour among the people more than those whom the sword hath devoured in that day.

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel flee from the face of Judah, and God giveth them into their hand, ¹⁷ and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹¹ Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear—Thy wrath?

¹⁴ The fury of a king is messengers of death, And a wise man pacifieth it.

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

¹¹ Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.

¹⁰ Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me is thy help, Where is thy king now—And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?' ¹¹ I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.

¹⁵ `Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

¹⁷ ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

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

⁷ and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'

² Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah. ³ Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. ⁴ Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

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

⁶ For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

⁵ Acceptance of the face of the wicked is not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.

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

²¹ To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

¹ Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

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!

²⁴ judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

²⁰ Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear; ²¹ I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

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

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

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,

⁶ `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife; ⁷ from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

²⁶ Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.

¹⁵ Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

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

¹⁰ Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

²⁰ Woe to those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

²³ Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

²⁴ And they have gone forth, And looked on the carcases of the men Who are transgressing against me, For their worm dieth not, And their fire is not quenched, And they have been an abhorrence to all flesh!

¹³ For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely, ¹⁴ And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, `Peace, peace!' and there is no peace.

¹⁰ Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely. ¹¹ And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.

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

¹⁷ `Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

¹³ and I have declared to him that I am judging his house—to the age, for the iniquity which he hath known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he hath not restrained them,

¹⁹ and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.' ²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found—because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

⁷ and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly, <sup>8</sup> and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word. ⁹ And I say, `Not good is the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

⁸ and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without, out of the chamber, ⁹ and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.
¹⁰ And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field—the Levites and the singers, doing the work. ¹¹ And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station;

¹⁷ And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, `What is this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day?

²⁵ And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, `Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.

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.

¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. ¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

²³ Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

⁴ for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

²⁰ Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

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

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

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

³⁸ and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God is ?' <sup>39</sup> and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou; ⁴⁰ thou—thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.' ⁴¹ And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.' <sup>42</sup> 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, <sup>43</sup> 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. ⁴⁴ 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;' <sup>45</sup> 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.
<sup>46</sup> 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; <sup>47</sup> and the land maketh in the seven years of plenty by handfuls. <sup>48</sup> 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; <sup>49</sup> and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number. <sup>50</sup> 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, <sup>51</sup> 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;' ⁵² and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: `for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.' <sup>53</sup> And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt, <sup>54</sup> 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; <sup>55</sup> 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.

²⁵ How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

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

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

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

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.

¹⁷ and Jesus answering said to them, `Give back the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;' and they did wonder at him.
¹⁸ And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

³² And the scribe said to him, `Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He; <sup>33</sup> and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.' <sup>34</sup> And Jesus, having seen him that he answered with understanding, said to him, `Thou art not far from the reign of God;' and no one any more durst question him.

¹⁷ And the king commandeth, and they bring great stones, precious stone, to lay the foundation of the house, hewn stones; ¹⁸ and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew, and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.

⁷ And the house, in its being built, of perfect stone brought thither hath been built, and hammer, and the axe—any instrument of iron—was not heard in the house, in its being built.

²⁸ `For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing? ²⁹ lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying—This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

¹⁶ `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

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

⁹ And answer doth Doeg the Edomite, who is set over the servants of Saul, and saith, `I have seen the son of Jesse coming in to Nob, unto Ahimelech son of Ahitub, ¹⁰ and he asketh for him at Jehovah, and provision hath given to him, and the sword of Goliath the Philistine hath given to him.

⁹ and she writeth in the letters, saying, `Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people, <sup>10</sup> and cause two men—sons of worthlessness—to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.' <sup>11</sup> And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them, <sup>12</sup> they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people, <sup>13</sup> and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

³ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

⁷ For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

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

⁵ A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

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

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

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

¹⁸ A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

⁵⁹ And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death, ⁶⁰ and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

²³ And the governor said, `Why, what evil did he?' and they were crying out the more, saying, `Let be crucified.'

²⁵ but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated me without a cause.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

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

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

¹¹ And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, `Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what is this thou hast done to us?' And he saith to them, `As they did to me, so I did to them.'

²² and Absalom hath not spoken with Amnon either evil or good, for Absalom is hating Amnon, because that he humbled Tamar his sister. ²³ And it cometh to pass, after two years of days, that Absalom hath shearers in Baal-Hazor, which is with Ephraim, and Absalom calleth for all the sons of the king. ²⁴ And Absalom cometh unto the king, and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath shearers, let the king go, I pray thee, and his servants, with thy servant.' <sup>25</sup> And the king saith unto Absalom, `Nay, my son, let us not all go, I pray thee, and we are not too heavy on thee;' and he presseth on him, and he hath not been willing to go, and he blesseth him. 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.'

²² Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.

²¹ If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water. ²² For coals thou art putting on his head, And Jehovah giveth recompense to thee.

³⁹ but I—I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; ⁴⁰ and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take—suffer to him also the cloak. ⁴¹ `And whoever shall impress thee one mile, go with him two, <sup>42</sup> to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.
<sup>43</sup> `Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; ⁴⁴ but I—I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

¹⁷ giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. ¹⁸ If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine, ²⁰ I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head; ²¹ Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

¹⁵ see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

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

²⁷ Lo, this—we searched it out—it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

¹⁷ I shew thee—hearken to me—And this I have seen and declare:

²⁵ Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

⁴² The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; ⁷ Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler, ⁸ She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food. 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.
¹² A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth, ¹³ Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers, ¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth. ¹⁵ Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken—and no healing. ¹⁶ These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. ¹⁷ Eyes high—tongues false—And hands shedding innocent blood— ¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil— ¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

³² He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

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

¹¹ Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

¹ And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors is power, and they have no comforter. ² And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive. ³ And better than both of them is he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.
⁴ And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit. ⁵ The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh: ⁶ `Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'
<sup>7</sup> And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun: <sup>8</sup> There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

¹⁵ The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.

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. ¹⁰ And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity. ¹¹ Because sentence hath not been done on an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

¹⁷ And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, ¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; ¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

⁴⁰ Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

²³ The fear of Jehovah is to life, And satisfied he remaineth—he is not charged with evil.

⁴ Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

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

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

¹⁸ By slothfulness is the wall brought low, And by idleness of the hands doth the house drop.

⁵ And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.

³ For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.

⁷ and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them,

²² `And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

⁸ and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning;

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

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

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

¹⁷ What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

⁴ `Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

¹⁹ and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

⁵¹ and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

⁶ and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

¹¹ And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

⁵ and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy; ⁶ messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept, ⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before—an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

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.
⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; ⁷ Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler, ⁸ She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food. 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.

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

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

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, ⁸ and we, being of the day—let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet—a hope of salvation,

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

⁴ The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.