Ketuvim
Mishlei23
Proverbs · Chapter 23
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what
is before thee:
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou
be a man given to appetite.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they
are deceitful meat.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for
riches
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward shamayim.
Eat thou not the bread of
him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
For as he thinketh in his heart, so
is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart
is not with thee.
The morsel
which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
For their redeemer
is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child: for
if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his nephesh from hell.
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but
be thou in the fear of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) all the day long.
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe
a man with rags.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and sell
it not;
also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise
child shall have joy of him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
For a whore
is a deep ditch; and a strange woman
is
a narrow pit.
She also lieth in wait as
for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup,
when it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
They have stricken me,
shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me,
and I felt
it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Ketuvim
Mishlei24
Proverbs · Chapter 24
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
A wise man
is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors
there is safety.
Wisdom
is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
The thought of foolishness
is sin: and the scorner
is
an abomination to men.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength
is small.
If thou forbear to deliver
them that are drawn unto death, and
those that are ready to be slain;
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider
it? and he that keepeth thy nephesh, doth
not
he know
it? and shall
not he render to
every
man according to his works?
My son, eat thou honey, because
it is good; and the honeycomb,
which is sweet to thy taste:
So
shall the knowledge of wisdom
be unto thy nephesh: when thou hast found
it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Lay not wait, O wicked
man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
For a just
man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Lest 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) see
it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Fret not thyself because of evil
men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;
For there shall be no reward to the evil
man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
My son, fear thou 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) and the king:
and meddle not with them that are given to change:
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
These
things also
belong to the wise.
It is
not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
He that saith unto the wicked, Thou
art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
But to them that rebuke
him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Every man shall kiss
his lips that giveth a right answer.
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive
not with thy lips.
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns,
and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Then I saw,
and considered
it well: I looked upon
it, and received instruction.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Ketuvim
Mishlei25
Proverbs · Chapter 25
These
are also proverbs of Shelomoh, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
It is the glory of Elohim to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings
is to search out a matter.
The shamayim for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings
is unsearchable.
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Take away the wicked
from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great
men:
For better
it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest
thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour
himself; and discover not a secret to another:
Lest he that heareth
it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
A word fitly spoken
is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold,
so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,
so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the nephesh of his masters.
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift
is like clouds and wind without rain.
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and
so hate thee.
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour
is
a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble
is like
a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather,
and as
vinegar upon nitre, so
is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall reward thee.
The north wind driveth away rain: so
doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
As cold waters to a thirsty nephesh, so
is good news from a far country.
A righteous man falling down before the wicked
is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
It is
not good to eat much honey: so
for men
to search their own glory
is not
glory.
He that
hath no rule over his own spirit
is like
a city
that is broken down,
and without walls.