1 My children, forget not my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart; 4 So shalt you find …
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Proverbs 4
1 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake you not my teaching. 3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, “Let your heart …
Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding, 2 That you mayest regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil; 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp …
Proverbs 6
1 My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger, 2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth. 3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of …
Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commands with you. 2 Keep my commands, and live; and my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of your heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, “You are my sister”; and call understanding your kinswoman, …
Proverbs 8
1 Doth not wisdom cry? And understanding put forth her voice? 2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. 3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. 4 Unto you, O men, I call; …
Proverbs 9
1 Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars; 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens; she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; …
Proverbs 10
1 The proverbs of Solomon (Shelomoh). A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 יהוה will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish; but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. …
Proverbs 11
1 A false balance is abomination to יהוה, but a just weight is His delight. 2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame, but with the humble is wisdom. 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath, but …
Proverbs 12
1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish. 2 A good man obtaineth favor of יהוה, but a man of wicked devices will He condemn. 3 A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. 4 A virtuous woman is a …