10 June - Proverbs 22-24

Jude Sat Dec 29, 2018 12:12 am

My soul doth magnify my YAH, and my spirit hath rejoiced in EL my Saviour; For HE that is mighty hath done to me great things; and Holy is HIS Name. Now unto HIM who is ever present in my helpless estate; who is able to keep me from falling and to present me faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise EL our Saviour be honour and glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever Halleluyah!

PROVERBS 22

1A good name is preferable to great riches. Favour is better than silver and gold.

2The rich and the poor meet together – יהוה is the Maker of them all.

3A clever one foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple go on and are punished.

4The reward of humility is the fear of יהוה, Riches, and esteem and life.

5Thorns, snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his life keeps far away from them.

6Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he turns not away from it.

7The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.

8He who sows unrighteousness reaps trouble, And the rod of his wrath perishes.

9He who has a good eye is blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.

10Cast out the scoffer and strife goes out, And contention and shame cease.

11He who loves cleanness of heart, Whose speech is pleasant, A sovereign is his friend.

12The eyes of יהוה shall watch over knowledge, But He overthrows the words of the treacherous.

13The lazy one says, “There is a lion outside! I am going to be killed in the streets!”

14The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by יהוה falls in there.

15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline drives it far from him.

16One oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, Another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your heart to my knowledge;

18For they are pleasant If you guard them within you; Let all of them be ready on your lips.

19I caused you to know today, even you:

20Have I not previously written to you Of counsels and knowledge,

21To cause you to know The certainty of the words of truth, To return words of truth to those who send to you?

22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, And oppress not the afflicted at the gate.

23For יהוה pleads their cause, And shall plunder those who plunder them.

24Make no friendship with one given to wrath, And do not go with a man of rage,

25Lest you learn his ways, And find yourself ensnared.

26Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who are guarantors for debts.

27If you do not have the means to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?

28Do not move the ancient boundary Which your fathers have set.

29Do you see a man who is skilled in his work? He does stand before sovereigns, He does not stand before obscure ones.

PROVERBS 23

1When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Look well what is before you;

2And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.

3Do not desire his delicacies, For that food is deceptive.

4Do not labour to be rich. Cease from your own understanding!

5Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens.

6Do not eat the bread of one having an evil eye, Nor desire his delicacies;

7For as he reckons in his life, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

8You vomit the piece you have eaten, And lose your sweet words.

9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on the wisdom of your words.

10Do not move the ancient boundary, And do not enter the fields of the fatherless;

11For their Redeemer is strong; He shall plead their cause against you.

12Bring your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge.

13Do not withhold discipline from a child; If you beat him with a rod, he does not die.

14Beat him with a rod And deliver his being from the grave.

15My son, if your heart shall be wise, My heart rejoices, even I,

16And my kidneys exult When your lips speak what is straight.

17Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be in the fear of יהוה all day long;

18For certain, there is a hereafter, And let your expectancy not be cut off.

19Hear, my son, and be wise, And guide your heart in the way.

20Be not among heavy drinkers of wine Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

21For the drunkard and the glutton become poor, And slumber puts rags on a man.

22Listen to your father who brought you forth, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

23Buy the truth and do not sell it – Wisdom and discipline and understanding.

24The father of the righteous greatly rejoices, And he who brings forth a wise one delights in him.

25Let your father and your mother rejoice, And let her who bore you exult.

26My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes watch my ways.

27For a whore is a deep pit, And a strange woman is a narrow well.

28She too lies in wait as for a prey, And increases the treacherous among men.

29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who feels hurt without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

30Those staying long at the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.

31Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it gives its colour in the cup, As it flows smoothly;

32In the end it bites like a snake, And stings like an adder –

33Your eyes look on strange women, And your heart speaks perversities.

34And you shall be as one Lying down in the midst of the sea, And as one lying at the top of the mast, saying,

35“They smote me, I was not sick! They beat me, I did not know! When shall I wake up? Let me seek it again!”

PROVERBS 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 slaughter,

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.