gltv - Proverbs:21-25

gltv@Proverbs:21:1 @ As streams of waters, the king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah; He turns it wherever He desires.

gltv@Proverbs:21:2 @ Every way of a man is upright in his own eyes, but Jehovah measures the hearts.

gltv@Proverbs:21:3 @ For Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen more than sacrifice.

gltv@Proverbs:21:4 @ High eyes, a proud heart, and the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

gltv@Proverbs:21:5 @ The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty, but those of every hasty one only to poverty.

gltv@Proverbs:21:6 @ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven by those who seek death.

gltv@Proverbs:21:7 @ The violence of the wicked drags them down, because they refuse to do justice.

gltv@Proverbs:21:8 @ The way of a guilty man is perverted; but the pure, his work is right.

gltv@Proverbs:21:9 @ It is better to dwell on a corner of a housetop, than with a contentious woman, and to share a house.

gltv@Proverbs:21:10 @ The soul of the wicked desires evil, his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

gltv@Proverbs:21:11 @ The simple is made wise when the scorner is punished, and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

gltv@Proverbs:21:12 @ The Righteous One wisely considers the house of the wicked: He overthrows the wicked for his evil.

gltv@Proverbs:21:13 @ Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he himself shall also call, and shall not be answered.

gltv@Proverbs:21:14 @ A gift in secret subdues anger; yea, a bribe in the bosom quiets great fury.

gltv@Proverbs:21:15 @ It is joy to the just to do justice, but ruin shall come to the workers of evil.

gltv@Proverbs:21:16 @ The man who wanders out of the way of prudence shall rest in the congregation of departed spirits.

gltv@Proverbs:21:17 @ A man who loves pleasure shall be poor, he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

gltv@Proverbs:21:18 @ The wicked shall be a ransom for the just, and the treacherous in the place of the upright.

gltv@Proverbs:21:19 @ It is better to live in a land of the wilderness than with a woman of strivings and vexations.

gltv@Proverbs:21:20 @ A desirable treasure and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man devours it.

gltv@Proverbs:21:21 @ He who pursues righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness and honor.

gltv@Proverbs:21:22 @ A wise one ascends the city of the mighty and topples the strength in which it trusts.

gltv@Proverbs:21:23 @ Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from distresses.

gltv@Proverbs:21:24 @ Proud, haughty scorner is his name, he who deals in proud wrath.

gltv@Proverbs:21:25 @ The lust of the lazy man kills him, for his hands have refused to work.

gltv@Proverbs:21:26 @ He lusts with lust all the day long, but the righteous gives and does not withhold.

gltv@Proverbs:21:27 @ The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful, how much more when he brings it with an evil intent!

gltv@Proverbs:21:28 @ A false witness shall perish, but the man who attends will speak forever.

gltv@Proverbs:21:29 @ A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright establishes his way.

gltv@Proverbs:21:30 @ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel before Jehovah.

gltv@Proverbs:21:31 @ The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but to Jehovah belongs deliverance.

gltv@Proverbs:22:1 @ A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches; rather than silver or gold, favor is better.

gltv@Proverbs:22:2 @ The rich and poor meet together, Jehovah is the Maker of all of them.

gltv@Proverbs:22:3 @ A sensible one sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple go on and are punished.

gltv@Proverbs:22:4 @ The reward of humility is the fear of Jehovah, riches, and honor, and life.

gltv@Proverbs:22:5 @ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse, he who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

gltv@Proverbs:22:6 @ Train up a boy on the opening of his way, even when he is old, he will not turn aside from it.

gltv@Proverbs:22:7 @ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to a man who lends.

gltv@Proverbs:22:8 @ He who sows injustice will reap evil, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

gltv@Proverbs:22:9 @ He who has a good eye, he is blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

gltv@Proverbs:22:10 @ Throw the scorner out and strife shall go out; yea, quarrels and shame shall cease.

gltv@Proverbs:22:11 @ He who loves pureness of heart, grace is on his lips; the king shall be his friend.

gltv@Proverbs:22:12 @ The eyes of Jehovah keep knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the treacherous.

gltv@Proverbs:22:13 @ The lazy one says, A lion is outside! I will be killed in the streets!

gltv@Proverbs:22:14 @ The mouth of alien women is a deep pit; those despised by Jehovah shall fall there.

gltv@Proverbs:22:15 @ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a boy, the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

gltv@Proverbs:22:16 @ One oppresses the poor to multiply for himself, another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

gltv@Proverbs:22:17 @ Stretch your ear and hear the words of the wise, and set your heart to My knowledge,

gltv@Proverbs:22:18 @ for they are pleasant when you keep them within you; they shall all be fixed together on your lips,

gltv@Proverbs:22:19 @ So that your trust may be in Jehovah. I caused you to know today, even you.

gltv@Proverbs:22:20 @ Have I not written to you the third time with counsels and knowledge,

gltv@Proverbs:22:21 @ to cause you to know the verity of the words of truth, to return words of truth to those who send you?

gltv@Proverbs:22:22 @ Rob not the poor because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted in the gate.

gltv@Proverbs:22:23 @ For Jehovah will contend for their cause, and will plunder the soul of their plunderers.

gltv@Proverbs:22:24 @ Do not feed a possessor of anger, and do not go in with a man of fury,

gltv@Proverbs:22:25 @ lest you learn his ways and take a snare for your soul.

gltv@Proverbs:22:26 @ Do not be one of those who strike the palm, those who are sureties for loans.

gltv@Proverbs:22:27 @ If you have nothing to repay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

gltv@Proverbs:22:28 @ Do not move the old landmark which your fathers have set.

gltv@Proverbs:22:29 @ Do you see a man who is prompt in his work? He shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before obscure men.

gltv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you,

gltv@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite.

gltv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies.

gltv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not labor to be rich, cease from your own understanding.

gltv@Proverbs:23:5 @ Will your eyes fly on it? And it is not! For surely it makes wings for itself, it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

gltv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of one having an evil eye, and do not desire his delicacies,

gltv@Proverbs:23:7 @ for as he thinks in his heart, so is he! He says to you, Eat and drink, but his heart is not with you.

gltv@Proverbs:23:8 @ You shall vomit the bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant words.

gltv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

gltv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not move the old landmark, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless,

gltv@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Redeemer is mighty, He will contend for their cause with you.

gltv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Bring your heart in for instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

gltv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

gltv@Proverbs:23:14 @ You shall beat him with the rod, and you shall deliver him from Sheol.

gltv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even I.

gltv@Proverbs:23:16 @ And my reins shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.

gltv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but only be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

gltv@Proverbs:23:18 @ For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope shall not be cut off.

gltv@Proverbs:23:19 @ My son, hear you, and be wise, and advance your heart in the way.

gltv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with flesh gluttons to themselves,

gltv@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe one with rags.

gltv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Listen to your father, this one sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

gltv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth, and sell it not, also wisdom, and instruction and understanding.

gltv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise one shall even be glad in him.

gltv@Proverbs:23:25 @ Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.

gltv@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give Me your heart, and let your eyes watch My ways.

gltv@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep pit, and a strange woman is a narrow well.

gltv@Proverbs:23:28 @ Surely she lies in wait, as for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.

gltv@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe, who sorrow? Who has contentions, who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of eyes?

gltv@Proverbs:23:30 @ those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

gltv@Proverbs:23:31 @ Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly,

gltv@Proverbs:23:32 @ at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like a basilisk.

gltv@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;

gltv@Proverbs:23:34 @ yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast,

gltv@Proverbs:23:35 @ saying, They struck me! I was not sick! They beat me, yet I did not know. When I awaken I will add to it, I will still seek it.

gltv@Proverbs:24:1 @ Do not envy evil men, nor desire to be with them.

gltv@Proverbs:24:2 @ For their heart studies violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

gltv@Proverbs:24:3 @ Through wisdom a house is built, and it is established by understanding,

gltv@Proverbs:24:4 @ and by knowledge the rooms shall be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

gltv@Proverbs:24:5 @ A wise warrior is in strength: yes, a man of knowledge firms up power.

gltv@Proverbs:24:6 @ For you shall make war for yourself by wise advice, and safety is in the great Counselor.

gltv@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.

gltv@Proverbs:24:8 @ He who plots to do evil shall be called a lord of evil plots.

gltv@Proverbs:24:9 @ The plot of foolishness is sin, and the scorner is hateful to men.

gltv@Proverbs:24:10 @ Your strength is small if you faint in the day of distress,

gltv@Proverbs:24:11 @ if you hold back to deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling for killing.

gltv@Proverbs:24:12 @ For you say, Behold, we did not know this. Does not He who weighs the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He not know? Yea, He repays to a man according to his work.

gltv@Proverbs:24:13 @ My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;

gltv@Proverbs:24:14 @ so shall knowledge of wisdom be to your soul, when you have found there is a future, and your hope is not cut off.

gltv@Proverbs:24:15 @ Oh wicked one, do not lie in ambush against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violate his resting place,

gltv@Proverbs:24:16 @ for a just one falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked shall stumble into evil.

gltv@Proverbs:24:17 @ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles,

gltv@Proverbs:24:18 @ that Jehovah not see and it be evil in His eyes, and He turn away His anger from him.

gltv@Proverbs:24:19 @ Do not burn in anger because of evildoers, and do not envy the wicked;

gltv@Proverbs:24:20 @ for no hereafter shall be to the evil; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

gltv@Proverbs:24:21 @ My son, fear Jehovah and the king; do not meddle with those who change,

gltv@Proverbs:24:22 @ for their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of both of them?

gltv@Proverbs:24:23 @ These also are for the wise: to respect persons in judgment is not good.

gltv@Proverbs:24:24 @ He who says to the wicked, You are righteous, the peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him.

gltv@Proverbs:24:25 @ But to those who rebuke, it is pleasant, and a good blessing comes to them.

gltv@Proverbs:24:26 @ He shall kiss the lips that return right words.

gltv@Proverbs:24:27 @ Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.

gltv@Proverbs:24:28 @ Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, or deceive with your lips,.

gltv@Proverbs:24:29 @ Do not say, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay each according to his work.

gltv@Proverbs:24:30 @ I went over the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking heart,

gltv@Proverbs:24:31 @ and, lo, it was all risen up with thistles, nettles had covered its surface, and its stone wall was broken down.

gltv@Proverbs:24:32 @ Then I saw, I set my heart on it; I looked, I received instruction:

gltv@Proverbs:24:33 @ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,

gltv@Proverbs:24:34 @ so shall your poverty come stalking, and your want like a man with a shield.

gltv@Proverbs:25:1 @ These are the proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out:

gltv@Proverbs:25:2 @ The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

gltv@Proverbs:25:3 @ The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, but the heart of kings is unsearchable.

gltv@Proverbs:25:4 @ Take away the dross from the silver, and a vessel of the refiner's shall appear.

gltv@Proverbs:25:5 @ Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne is established in righteousness.

gltv@Proverbs:25:6 @ Do not honor yourself before a king, and do not stand in the place of the great.

gltv@Proverbs:25:7 @ For it is better he shall say to you, Come up here! than that you should be put lower before a noble whom your eyes have seen.

gltv@Proverbs:25:8 @ Do not go out to fight hastily, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame?

gltv@Proverbs:25:9 @ Contend for your cause with your neighbor, and do not uncover the secret of another,

gltv@Proverbs:25:10 @ lest he who hears put you to shame, and your slander have no end.

gltv@Proverbs:25:11 @ A word rightly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

gltv@Proverbs:25:12 @ As a ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover on a hearing ear.

gltv@Proverbs:25:13 @ Like the cold of snow in harvest time, so is a faithful messenger to those sending him, for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

gltv@Proverbs:25:14 @ A man boasting himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind, but with no rain.

gltv@Proverbs:25:15 @ In being slow to anger, a ruler is persuaded; and a soft tongue shatters the bone.

gltv@Proverbs:25:16 @ Have you found honey? Eat only your fill, lest you be satiated, and vomit it out.

gltv@Proverbs:25:17 @ Make your foot rare from your neighbor's house, lest he be full of you and hate you.

gltv@Proverbs:25:18 @ A man who gives false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword and a sharp arrow.

gltv@Proverbs:25:19 @ Confidence in a treacherous man in time of distress is like a bad tooth and a slipping foot.

gltv@Proverbs:25:20 @ As he who takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar on soda, so is he who sings songs on an evil heart.

gltv@Proverbs:25:21 @ If your hater is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

gltv@Proverbs:25:22 @ for you shall heap coals of fire on his head, and Jehovah shall reward you.

gltv@Proverbs:25:23 @ The north wind brings rain, so does a secret tongue an angry face.

gltv@Proverbs:25:24 @ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

gltv@Proverbs:25:25 @ Like cold waters to a weary soul, so is a good report from a far country.

gltv@Proverbs:25:26 @ The righteous falling down before the wicked is like a fouled fountain and a ruined spring.

gltv@Proverbs:25:27 @ It is not good to eat much honey, and to search out their glory is not glory.

gltv@Proverbs:25:28 @ A man to whom there is no control to his spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.

gltv@Proverbs:26:1 @ As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not right for a fool.