1 When you sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; 2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat. 4 Labour not to be rich; cease from your own wisdom. 5 …
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Proverbs 24
1 Be not you envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. 3 Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established: 4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. 5 …
Proverbs 25
1 These are also proverbs of Solomon (Shelomoh), which the men of Hezekiah (Chizkiyah) king of Judah (Yehudah) copied out. 2 It is the glory of God (Elohim) to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter. 3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the …
Proverbs 26
1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool. 2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back. 4 …
Proverbs 27
1 Boast not yourself of tomorrow, for you knowest not what a day may bring forth. 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is …
Proverbs 28
1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion. 2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof, but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain …
Proverbs 29
1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. 3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance. 4 The …
Proverbs 30
1 The words of Agur the son of Yakeh, even the prophecy; the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who hath ascended …
Proverbs 31
1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? And what, the son of my womb? And what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not your strength unto women, nor your ways to that which destroyeth kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it …
Ecclesiastes 1
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of Dawid, king in Jerusalem (Yerushalayim). 2 “Vanity of vanities!” saith the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!” 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth …