Proverbs 24
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Saying 20
1Do not want what evil people have.
Don’t long to be with them.
2In their hearts they plan to hurt others.
With their lips they talk about making trouble.
Saying 21
3By wisdom a house is built.
Through understanding it is made secure.
4Through knowledge its rooms are filled
with priceless and beautiful things.
Saying 22
5Wise people have success by means of great power.
Those who have knowledge gather strength.
6If you go to war, you surely need guidance.
If you want to win, you need many good advisers.
Saying 23
7Wisdom is too high for foolish people.
They shouldn’t speak when people meet at the city gate to conduct business.
Saying 24
8Anyone who thinks up sinful things to do
will be known as one who plans evil.
9Foolish plans are sinful.
People hate those who make fun of others.
Saying 25
10If you grow weak when trouble comes,
your strength is very small!
11Save those who are being led away to death.
Hold back those who are about to be killed.
12Don’t say, “But we didn’t know anything about this.”
Doesn’t the God who knows what you are thinking see it?
Doesn’t the God who guards your life know it?
He will pay back everyone for what they have done.
Saying 26
13Eat honey, my son, because it is good.
Honey from a honeycomb has a sweet taste.
14I want you to know that wisdom is like honey for you.
If you find it, there is hope for you tomorrow.
So your hope will not be cut off.
Saying 27
15Don’t hide and wait like a burglar near a godly person’s house.
Don’t rob their home.
16Even if godly people fall down seven times, they always get up.
But those who are evil trip and fall when trouble comes.
Saying 28
17Don’t be happy when your enemy falls.
When he trips, don’t let your heart be glad.
18The Lord will see it, but he won’t be pleased.
He might turn his anger away from your enemy.
Saying 29
19Don’t be upset because of evil people.
Don’t long for what sinners have.
20Tomorrow evil people won’t have any hope.
The lamps of sinners will be blown out.
Saying 30
21My son, have respect for the Lord and the king.
Don’t join with officials who disobey them.
22The Lord and the king will suddenly destroy them.
Who knows what trouble those two can bring?
More Sayings of Wise People
23Here are more sayings of wise people.
Taking sides in court is not good.
24A curse will fall on those who say the guilty are not guilty.
Nations will ask for bad things to happen to them.
People will speak against them.
25But it will go well with those who sentence guilty people.
Rich blessings will come to them.
26An honest answer
is like a kiss on the lips.
27Put your outdoor work in order.
Get your fields ready.
After that, build your house.
28Don’t be a witness against your neighbor for no reason.
Would you use your lips to tell lies?
29Don’t say, “I’ll do to them what they have done to me.
I’ll get even with them for what they did.”
30I went past the field of someone who didn’t want to work.
I went past the vineyard of someone who didn’t have any sense.
31Thorns had grown up everywhere.
The ground was covered with weeds.
The stone wall had fallen down.
32I applied my heart to what I observed.
I learned a lesson from what I saw.
33You might sleep a little or take a little nap.
You might even fold your hands and rest.
34Then you would be poor, as if someone had robbed you.
You would have little, as if someone had stolen from you.
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Proverbs 24
24
1Do not envy evil people
or wish you were with them,
2because their minds plot violence,
and their lips talk trouble.
3With wisdom a house is built.
With understanding it is established.
4With knowledge its rooms are filled
with every kind of riches, both precious and pleasant.
5A strong man knows how to use his strength,
but a person with knowledge is even more powerful.
6After all, with the right strategy you can wage war,
and with many advisers there is victory.
7Matters of wisdom are beyond the grasp of a stubborn fool.
At the city gate he does not open his mouth.
8Whoever plans to do evil will be known as a schemer.
9Foolish scheming is sinful,
and a mocker is disgusting to everyone.
10If you faint in a crisis, you are weak.
11Rescue captives condemned to death,
and spare those staggering toward their slaughter.
12When you say, “We didn’t know this,”
won’t the one who weighs hearts take note of it?
Won’t the one who guards your soul know it?
Won’t he pay back people for what they do?
13Eat honey, my son, because it is good.
Honey that flows from the honeycomb tastes sweet.
14The knowledge of wisdom is like that for your soul.
If you find it, then there is a future,
and your hope will never be cut off.
15You wicked one,
do not lie in ambush at the home of a righteous person.
Do not rob his house.
16A righteous person may fall seven times, but he gets up again.
However, in a disaster wicked people fall.
17Do not be happy when your enemy falls,
and do not feel glad when he stumbles.
18The Lord will see it, he won’t like it,
and he will turn his anger away from that person.
19Do not get overly upset with evildoers.
Do not envy wicked people,
20because an evil person has no future,
and the lamps of wicked people will be snuffed out.
21Fear the Lord, my son.
Fear the king as well.
Do not associate with those who always insist upon change,
22because disaster will come to them suddenly.
Who knows what misery both may bring?
Learning from Wise People
23These also are the sayings of wise people:
Showing partiality as a judge is not good.
24Whoever says to a guilty person, “You are innocent,”
will be cursed by people and condemned by nations.
25But people will be pleased with those who convict a guilty person,
and a great blessing will come to them.
26Giving a straight answer is ⌞like⌟ a kiss on the lips.
27Prepare your work outside,
and get things ready for yourself in the field.
Afterwards, build your house.
28Do not testify against your neighbor without a reason,
and do not deceive with your lips.
29Do not say,
“I’ll treat him as he treated me.
I’ll pay him back for what he has done to me.”
30I passed by a lazy person’s field,
the vineyard belonging to a person without sense.
31I saw that it was all overgrown with thistles.
The ground was covered with weeds,
and its stone fence was torn down.
32When I observed ⌞this⌟, I took it to heart.
I saw it and learned my lesson.
33“Just a little sleep,
just a little slumber,
just a little nap.”
34Then your poverty will come like a drifter,
and your need will come like a bandit.
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