Proverbs 18:1

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Summary

Proverbs 18:1

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Through, etc

Jude 1:19

Seeketh

Intermeddleth

General references

Deuteronomy 14:6

Proverbs 2:10

Proverbs 8:9

Bible References

Through, etc

and in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Thine eyes -- I and Thy people -- is it not in Thy going with us? and we have been distinguished -- I and Thy people -- from all the people who are on the face of the ground.'

speaking unto the priests who are at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, 'Do I weep in the fifth month -- being separated -- as I have done these so many years?'

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God --

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,

these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.

Seeketh

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

And he answering said to them that -- 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

Intermeddleth

The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.

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

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

Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, Is a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

Also, in the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance Is the desire of the soul.

I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, -- Alone I have sat, For with indignation Thou hast filled me.

And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

General references

and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts -- it ye do eat.

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

All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.