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| The Book of Proverbs 24 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:1 | Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:2 | Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:3 | By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:4 | By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:5 | A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:6 | Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:7 | Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:8 | He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:9 | The thought of a fool is sin: and the detracter is the abomination of men. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:10 | If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:11 | Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death forbear not to deliver. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:12 | If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, end he shall render to a man according to his works. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:13 | Fat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:14 | So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:15 | Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:16 | For a just mall shall fall seven times and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:17 | When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:18 | Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:19 | Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:20 | For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:21 | My son, fear the Lord and the king: and have nothing to do with detracters. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:22 | For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:23 | These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:24 | They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:25 | They that rebuke him, shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:26 | He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:27 | Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:28 | Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:29 | Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:30 | I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:31 | And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:32 | Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:33 | Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 24:34 | And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man. | |||||||||||||||
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