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Proverbs, Chapter 24

¹ Nor desire to be with them;	1 Psa 37:1 Pro 3:31 Pro 23:17 Pro 24:19 Psa 1:1 Pro 1:15
² Do not be envious of evil men,	2 Isa 30:12 Jer 22:17 Job 15:35 Psa 10:7 Psa 38:12
² For their^a Lit heartsminds devise violence, And their lips talk of trouble.
³ By wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established;	3 Pro 9:1 Pro 14:1
⁴ And by knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.	4 Pro 8:21
⁵ A wise man is^b Lit in strengthstrong, And a man of knowledge^c Lit strengthens powerincreases power.	5 Pro 21:22
⁶ For by wise guidance you will^d Lit make battle for yourselfwage war, And in abundance of counselors there is victory.	6 Pro 20:18 Pro 11:14
⁷ Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth in the gate.	7 Psa 10:5 Pro 14:6 Pro 17:16 Job 5:4 Psa 127:5
⁸ One who plans to do evil, Men will call a^e Or deviser of evilschemer.	8 Pro 6:14 Pro 14:22 Rom 1:30
⁹ The devising of folly is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to men.	9 Mat 15:19 Act 8:22
¹⁰ If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.	10 Deu 20:8 Job 4:5 Jer 51:46 Heb 12:3
¹¹ Deliver those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.	11 Psa 82:4 Isa 58:6 Isa 58:7
¹² If you say, “See, we did not know this,” Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your soul? And will He not^f Lit bring backrender to man according to his work?	12 Ecc 5:8 Sa1 16:7 Pro 21:2 Psa 94:9-11 Psa 121:3-8 Job 34:11 Pro 12:14
¹³ My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;	13 Psa 19:10 Psa 119:103 Pro 25:16 Sol 5:1 Pro 16:24 Pro 27:7 Sol 4:11
¹⁴ Know that wisdom is thus for your soul; If you find it, then there will be a^g Lit latter endfuture, And your hope will not be cut off.	14 Pro 2:10 Pro 23:18
¹⁵ Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;	15 Psa 10:9 Psa 10:10
¹⁶ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.	16 Job 5:19 Psa 37:24 Mic 7:8 Pro 6:15 Pro 14:32 Pro 24:22 Jer 18:17
¹⁷ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;	17 Job 31:29 Psa 35:15 Psa 35:19 Pro 17:5 Oba 1:12
¹⁸ Or the LORD will see it and^h Lit it is evil in His eyesbe displeased, And turn His anger away from him.
¹⁹ Do not fret because of evildoers Or be envious of the wicked;	19 Psa 37:1 Pro 23:17 Pro 24:1
²⁰ For there will be noⁱ Lit latter endfuture for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.	20 Job 15:31 Pro 23:18 Job 18:5 Job 18:6 Job 21:17 Pro 13:9 Pro 20:20
²¹ My son,^j Or reverencefear the LORD and the king; Do not associate with those who are given to change,	21 Rom 13:1-7 Pe1 2:17
²² For their calamity will rise suddenly, And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?	22 Pro 24:16
²³ These also are sayings of the wise. To^k Lit regard the faceshow partiality in judgment is not good.	23 Pro 1:6 Pro 22:17 Pro 18:5 Pro 28:21
²⁴ He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” Peoples will curse him, nations will abhor him;	24 Pro 17:15 Isa 5:23 Pro 11:26
²⁵ But to those who rebuke the wicked will be delight, And a good blessing will come upon them.	25 Pro 28:23
²⁶ He kisses the lips Who gives^l Or an honesta right answer.
²⁷ Prepare your work outside And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterwards, then, build your house.	27 Pro 27:23-27
²⁸ Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.	28 Pro 25:18 Lev 6:2 Lev 6:3 Lev 19:11 Eph 4:25
²⁹ Do not say, “Thus I shall do to him as he has done to me; I will^m Lit bring backrender to the man according to his work.”	29 Pro 20:22 Mat 5:39 Rom 12:17
³⁰ I passed by the field of the sluggard And by the vineyard of the man lackingⁿ Lit heartsense,	30 Pro 6:32
³¹ And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles; Its surface was covered with^o I.e. a kind of weednettles, And its stone wall was broken down.	31 Gen 3:18 Job 30:7 Isa 5:5
³² When I saw, I^p Lit set my heartreflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction.
³³ “A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest,”	33 Pro 6:10
³⁴ Then your poverty will come as^q Or a vagabond; lit one who walksa robber And your want like^r Lit a man with a shieldan armed man.


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