The Book of Proverbs 24 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Proverbs 24:1 | Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them. |
Proverbs 24:2 | For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak. |
Proverbs 24:3 | By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself. |
Proverbs 24:4 | And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, [With] all precious and pleasant wealth. |
Proverbs 24:5 | Mighty [is] the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power, |
Proverbs 24:6 | For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance [is] in a multitude of counsellors. |
Proverbs 24:7 | Wisdom [is] high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth. |
Proverbs 24:8 | Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts. |
Proverbs 24:9 | The thought of folly [is] sin, And an abomination to man [is] a scorner. |
Proverbs 24:10 | Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power, |
Proverbs 24:11 | If [from] delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter thou keepest back. |
Proverbs 24:12 | When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.` Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work. |
Proverbs 24:13 | Eat my son, honey that [is] good, And the honeycomb sweet to thy palate. |
Proverbs 24:14 | So [is] the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off. |
Proverbs 24:15 | Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place. |
Proverbs 24:16 | For seven [times] doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil. |
Proverbs 24:17 | In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful, |
Proverbs 24:18 | Lest Jehovah see, and [it be] evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger. |
Proverbs 24:19 | Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked, |
Proverbs 24:20 | For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished. |
Proverbs 24:21 | Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself, |
Proverbs 24:22 | For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both who knoweth! |
Proverbs 24:23 | These also are for the wise: To discern faces in judgment is not good. |
Proverbs 24:24 | Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou [art] righteous,` Peoples execrate him nations abhor him. |
Proverbs 24:25 | And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing. |
Proverbs 24:26 | Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words. |
Proverbs 24:27 | Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house. |
Proverbs 24:28 | Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips. |
Proverbs 24:29 | Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.` |
Proverbs 24:30 | Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart. |
Proverbs 24:31 | And lo, it hath gone up all of it thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down. |
Proverbs 24:32 | And I see I I do set my heart, I have seen I have received instruction, |
Proverbs 24:33 | A little sleep a little slumber A little folding of the hands to lie down. |
Proverbs 24:34 | And thy poverty hath come [as] a traveller, And thy want as an armed man! |