Words of the Wise

• 17 you shall apply your heart[fn] to my teaching.
• 18 it is pleasant if you guard them[fn] together they will be ready upon your lips.
• 19 In order for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made them known to you[fn]—even[fn] you.
• 20 sayings with admonitions and knowledge?
• 21 In order to show you what is right—sayings of truth— in order to return a true saying to him who sent you.
• 22  and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;
• 23  and despoil those who despoil them of life.[fn]
• 24 [fn] of [fn] and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;
• 25  and become entangled in a snare to yourself.[fn]
• 26 [fn] [fn] surety.
• 27 [fn] why will he take your bed from under you?
• 28  which your ancestors[fn] made.
• 29  before kings, he will serve;
• he will not serve before the commoners.
• you shall surely observe what is before you,
• 2  if you have a[fn]
• 3  for[fn] it is food of deception.
• 4 in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist.
• 5 [fn] on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings
• like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.
• 6 [fn] and do not desire his delicacies.
• 7 [fn] so it is.[fn] “Eat and drink!” he will say to you,
• but his heart will not be with you.
• 8  and you will waste your pleasant words.
• 9  for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
• 10  and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
• 11  he himself will plead their cause against you.
• 12 [fn] to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
• 13  if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.
• 14  and his life[fn] you will save from Sheol.[fn]
• 15 [fn] is wise, my heart will be glad—even me!
• 16 [fn] will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.
• 17 [fn] not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh[fn]
• 18 [fn] there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
• 19  and direct your heart[fn] on the road.
• 20  among gluttonous eaters of[fn]
• 21  and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
• 22 [fn] and do not despise your mother when[fn] she is old.
• 23 it, wisdom and instruction and understanding.
• 24  he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.
• 25  and may she who bore you rejoice.
• 26 [fn] to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.
• 27 [fn] and a narrow well is[fn]
• 28 is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
• 29 is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?
• 30  to those who come to try mixed wine.
• 31  when it[fn] on the cup,
• going down smoothly.
• 32 [fn] it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.
• 33  and your heart[fn] will speak perverse things.
• 34  and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
• 35 it. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.”
• and do not desire to be with them.
• 2  and their lips will speak mischief.
• 3  and by understanding it is established.
• 4  with all riches, precious and pleasant.
• 5 is in strength, and a man of knowledge is strong in power.
• 6  and victory is in an abundance of counsel.
• 7 is too high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
• 8 [fn] himself, they will call him “master[fn] of mischief.”
• 9 is a sin, and an abomination to humankind is a scoffer.
• 10 If you faint on the day of adversity, little is your strength.
• 11  and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back,
• 12  does not he who weighs hearts perceive it?
• And he who keeps your soul,[fn]
• he knows and will repay humankind according to his deeds.
• 13 it is good, and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
• 14 the sake of your soul,[fn] if you find it, then there is a future,
• and your hope will not be cut off.
• 15 like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence to his dwelling place.
• 16 times the righteous will fall, but he will rise, but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity.
• 17  when he trips himself, may your heart[fn] not be glad
• 18 it be evil in his eyes, and turn his anger away from him.
• 19  do not envy the wicked.
• 20  the lamp of the wicked will die out.
• 21  with those who change, do not associate.
• 22  and the ruin of[fn] who knows?
• 23 sayings are also for the wise:[fn] in judgment is not good.
• 24  the nations will abhor him.
• 25  and upon them blessings of goodness will come.
• 26 the lips, he who gives an honest answer.
• 27  afterward, then[fn] you shall build your house.
• 28  nor deceive with your lips.
• 29  I will pay back the man according to his deed.”
• 30  and over the vineyard of a person lacking[fn]
• 31 with thorns, its surface with nettles, and[fn] was broken down.
• 32 [fn] considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction:
• 33  a little folding of the hands for rest,
• 34  and your lack like an armed warrior.