en_wbms - Pro 24 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Pursue [or follow] thou not evil men, desire thou not to be with them.

² For the soul of them bethinketh on ravens, and their lips speak frauds.

³ An house shall be builded by wisdom, and it shall be made strong by prudence, or understanding.

⁴ [The] Cellars shall be filled in teaching, with all riches precious and full fair.

⁵ A wise man is strong, and a learned man is stalworth[y] and mighty.

⁶ For why battle is begun with ordinance; and health shall be, where many counsels be.

⁷ Wisdom is high to a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.

⁸ He that thinketh to do evils, shall be called a fool.

⁹ The thought of a fool is sin; and a backbiter is abomination of men.

¹⁰ If thou hast slid, despairest in the day of anguish, thy strength shall be made less.

¹¹ Deliver thou them, that be led to death; and cease thou not to deliver them, that be drawn to death.

¹² If thou sayest, Strengths or Strong-holds suffice not; he that is [the] beholder of the heart, understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall yield to a man after his works.

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; and the honeycomb for it is full sweet to thy throat.

¹⁴ So and the teaching of wisdom is good to thy soul; and when thou hast found it, thou shalt have hope in the last things, and thine hope shall not perish.

¹⁵ Ambush thou not, and seek not wickedness in the house of a just [or rightwise] man, neither waste thou, his resting place.

¹⁶ For a just [or rightwise] man shall fall seven times in the day, and shall rise again; but wicked men shall fall into evil.

¹⁷ When thine enemy falleth, have thou not joy; and thine heart have not full out joying in his falling;

¹⁸ lest peradventure the Lord see, and it displease him, and he take away his ire [or his wrath] from him.

¹⁹ Strive thou not with the worst men, neither pursue [or follow] thou wicked men.

²⁰ For why evil men have not hope of things to come, and the lantern of wicked men shall be quenched.

²¹ My son, dread thou God, and the king; and be thou not meddled [or mingled] with backbiters.

²² For their perdition shall rise together suddenly, and who knoweth the fall of ever either?

²³ Also these things that pursue be to wise men. It is not good to know a person in doom.

²⁴ Peoples shall curse them that say to a wicked man, Thou art just [or rightwise]; and lineages shall hold them abominable.

²⁵ They that reprove justly sinners, shall be praised; and blessing shall come [up] on them.

²⁶ He that answereth with rightful [or right] words, shall kiss lips.

²⁷ Make ready thy work withoutforth, and work thy field diligently, that thou build thine house afterward.

²⁸ Be thou not a witness without reasonable cause against thy neighbour; neither flatter thou any man with thy lips.

²⁹ Say thou not, As he did to me, so I shall do to him, and I shall yield to each man after his work.

³⁰ I passed by the field of a slow man, and by the vinery [or the vineyard] of a fond [or foolish] man;

³¹ and lo! nettles had filled all, thorns had covered the higher part thereof, and the wall of stones without mortar was destroyed.

³² And when I had seen this thing, I setted [or put] in mine heart, and by ensample, I learned teaching.

³³ How long sleepest thou, slow man? when shalt thou rise from sleep? Soothly thou shalt sleep a little, thou shalt nap a little, thou shalt join together the hands a little, to take rest;

³⁴ and then thy neediness as a courier shall come to thee, and thy beggary as an armed man.