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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Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 24
24
1Do not envy evil men, Nor desire to be with them;
2For their heart plots to ravage, And their lips talk of trouble.
3By wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established;
4And by knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.
5Mighty is the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge strengthens power;
6For by wise guidance you wage your own battle, And delivery is by a great counsellor.
7Wisdom is high for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.
8He who plots to do evil Is called a master of evil plots.
9The purpose of folly is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
10If you falter in the day of distress, Your strength is small!
11Deliver those taken to death, And hold back those stumbling to the kill,
12If you say, “See, we did not know this,” Would not He who weighs the hearts discern it? He who watches over your life, Would He not know it? And shall He not repay man according to his work?
13My son, eat honey, for it is good, And the honeycomb, sweet to your taste;
14Know that wisdom is thus to your being; If you have found it, there is a future, And your expectancy is not cut off.
15Do not lie in wait, O wrong one, Against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not ravage his resting place;
16For seven times a righteous man falls and rises, But the wrong one stumbles into evil.
17Do not exult when your enemy falls, And let not your heart rejoice when he stumbles;
18Lest יהוה see and it be evil in His eyes, And He turn away His wrath from him.
19Do not fret because of evil-doers, And do not envy the wrong;
20For there is no future for the evil-doer; The lamp of the wrongdoers is put out.
21My son, fear יהוה and the sovereign; Do not mingle with those who change;
22For their calamity arises suddenly, And who knows the ruin of both of them?
23These also are for the wise: It is not good to show partiality in right-ruling.
24He who says to the wrong, “You are righteous” – peoples curse him, Nations despise him.
25But those who rebuke the wrong, It is pleasant, and a good blessing comes on them.
26He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.
27Prepare your outside work, And make it fit for yourself in the field; Then you shall build your house.
28Do not witness against your neighbour without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.
29Do not say, “Let me do to him as he did to me; I repay each according to his work.”
30I passed by the field of the lazy, And by the vineyard of the man lacking heart;
31And see, it was all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; And its stone wall was broken down.
32When I saw it, I set my heart on it; I looked and received discipline:
33A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest;
34And your poverty shall come, a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
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