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 …
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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 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 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 …
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 3
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 …
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 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 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 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 …