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from Proverbs of Solomon For translation and copyright information, see version links in the left column. | |||
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JPS | 6:1-5 |
My son, if you have stood surety for your fellow, Given your hand for another, You have been trapped by the words of your mouth, Snared by the words of your mouth. Do this, then, my son, to extricate yourself, For you have come into the power of your fellow; Go groveland badger your fellow; Give your eyes no sleep, Your pupils no slumber. Save yourself like a deer out of the hand [of a hunter]; Like a bird out of the hand of a fowler. | Compare to: |
19:17 |
He who is generous to the poor makes a loan to the LORD; He will repay him his due. | ||
22:16 |
To profit by withholding what is due to the poor Is like making gifts to the richpure loss. | ||
23:29-35 |
Who cries, Woe! who, Alas!; Who has quarrels, who complaints; Who has wounds without cause; Who has bleary eyes? Those whom wine keeps till the small hours, Those who gather to drain the cups. Do not ogle that red wine As it lends its color to the cup, As it flows on smoothly; In the end, it bites like a snake; It spits like a basilisk. Your eyes will see strange sights; Your heart will speak distorted things. You will be like one lying in bed on high seas, Like one lying on top of the rigging. They struck me, but I felt no hurt; They beat me, but I was unaware; As often as I wake, I go after it again. | Topic: | |
25:21-22 |
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; If he is thirsty, give him water to drink. You will be heaping live coals on his head, And the LORD will reward you. | ||
26:4-5 |
Do not answer a dullard in accord with his folly, Else you will become like him. Answer a dullard in accord with his folly, Else he will think himself wise. | ||
text checked (see note) Sep 2009 |
from Proverbs of Agur son of Jakeh | |||
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RSV/OT | 30:18-19 |
Three things are too wonderful for me; the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a ship on the high seas, | Misquoted in: |
text checked (see note) Jan 2005 |