Proverbs 22:17-Proverbs 24:34 - Words Of The Wise

¹⁷ Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching; ¹⁸ For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips. ¹⁹ That in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee to-day, even to thee. ²⁰ Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge: ²¹ To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

²⁴ Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in: ²⁵ Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.

²⁶ Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts: ²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?

²⁸ Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father's made.

²⁹ Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.

¹ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, thou shall consider well, what is before thee; ² And shalt put a knife to thy throat, if, of great appetite, thou art: ³ Do not crave his dainties, for, the same, are deceitful food.

⁴ Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear: ⁵ Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.

⁶ Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties; ⁷ For, just as he hath thought in his own mind, so, he is: Eat and drink! he may say to thee, but, his heart, is not with thee. ⁸ As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.

⁹ In the ears of a dullard, do not speak, for he will despise the good sense of thy words.

¹⁰ Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter; ¹¹ For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.

¹² Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.

¹³ Do not withhold, from a child, correction, When thou smitest him with the rod, he shall not die: ¹⁴ Thou, with the rod, shalt smite him, and, his soul from hades, shalt thou deliver.

¹⁵ My son! if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. ¹⁶ So shall my reins exult, when thy lips speak the things that are right.

¹⁷ Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long; ¹⁸ For surely there is a future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.

¹⁹ Hear, thou, my son, and be wise, and lead forward, in duty, thy heart. ²⁰ Do not be among them who tipple with wine, - among them who are gluttons; ²¹ For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!

²² Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother. ²³ Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding. ²⁴ Greatly shall exult, the father of a righteous man, and, he that begetteth a wise son, shall rejoice in him: ²⁵ Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.

²⁶ Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways; ²⁷ For, a deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown; ²⁸ Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.

²⁹ Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness of eyes? ³⁰ They who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine. ³¹ Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth down smoothly. ³² Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting. ³³ Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things: ³⁴ So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea, - or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear: ³⁵ They smote me - I felt no pain, They struck me down - I noticed it not, - When shall I wake up? I will go on, I will seek it, again!

¹ Be not thou envious of wicked men, neither crave to be with them; ² For, violence, their heart muttereth, and, mischief, their lips do speak.

³ In wisdom, is a house builded, and, in understanding, is it established; ⁴ And, in knowledge, chambers are filled, with all acquisitions, costly and fair.

⁵ A wise man, is mighty, and, a man of knowledge, becometh alert in vigour. ⁶ Surely, with concerted measures, shalt thou make for thyself war, and, success, lieth in the greatness of the counsellor.

⁷ Unattainable to a foolish man, are the dictates of wisdom, in the gate, he openeth not his mouth.

⁸ He that deviseth to do mischief, him, shall men call, a master of plots. ⁹ The purpose of folly, is sin, and, an abomination to mankind, is a buffoon.

¹⁰ Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength. ¹¹ Deliver thou such as are being led forth to death, and, them who are tottering to slaughter, oh that thou wouldst hold back! ¹² Though thou say, Lo! we knew not this, Shall not, he that proveth hearts, himself, discern? And, he that formeth thy soul, himself, know? and bring back to a son of earth according to his deed?

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, because it is good, - and droppings from the comb because they are sweet to thy palate: ¹⁴ Thus, take knowledge of wisdom, for thine own soul; If thou find it, then there is a future, and, thine expectation, shall not be cut off.

¹⁵ Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous, - neither destroy thou his place of rest; ¹⁶ For, seven times, may the righteous fall and yet arise, but, lawless men, shall stumble into calamity.

¹⁷ When thine enemy falleth, do not thou rejoice, and, when he stumbleth, let not thy heart exult: ¹⁸ Lest Yahweh see it, and it be wicked in his eyes, and he turn away from him his anger.

¹⁹ Burn not with vexation against evil doers, be not envious of lawless men; ²⁰ For there shall be no future for the wicked, The lamp of the lawless, shall go out.

²¹ Revere thou Yahweh, my son, and the king, and, with the fickle, have thou no fellowship; ²² For, suddenly, shall arise their calamity; and, the misfortune of their years, who knoweth?

²³ These things also, concern he wise, To take note of faces in judgment, is not good. ²⁴ He that saith to the lawless man, Righteous, thou art, peoples shall denounce him, populations shall curse him; ²⁵ But, to reprovers, one should be pleasant, and, upon them, should come an excellent blessing:

²⁶ Lips, should one kiss with one who answereth in right words.

²⁷ Prepare, in the open, thy work, and make ready, in the field, for thyself, Afterwards, shalt thou build thy house.

²⁸ Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips: ²⁹ Do not say - According to what he hath done to me, so, will I do to him, I will repay every one according to his work.

³⁰ By the field of the sluggard, I passed, and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense; ³¹ And lo! there had come up all over it - thorns, there had covered the face thereof - thistles, and, the stone fence thereof, had been thrown down. ³² So I observed it, for myself, I applied my heart, I looked - I accepted correction: ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest: