en_wbms - Pro 3 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ My son, forget thou not my law; and thine heart keep my command-ments.

² For they shall set to thee the length of days, and the years of life, and peace.

³ Mercy and truth forsake thee not; bind thou those to thy throat, and write them in the tables of thine heart.

⁴ And thou shalt find grace, and good teaching before God and men.

⁵ Have thou trust in the Lord, of all thine heart; and lean thou not to thy prudence.

⁶ In all thy ways think on him, and he shall dress thy goings.

⁷ Be thou not wise with thyself; dread thou God, and go away from evil.

⁸ For why health shall be in thy navel, and moisting of thy bones.

⁹ Honour thou the Lord of thy chattel [or substance], and of the best of all thy fruits give thou to poor men;

¹⁰ and thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy pressers [or presses] shall flow with wine.

¹¹ My son, cast thou not away the teaching of the Lord; and fail thou not, when thou art chastised of him.

¹² For the Lord chastiseth him, whom he loveth; and as a father in the son he pleaseth him.

¹³ Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and that floweth with prudence.

¹⁴ The getting thereof is better than the merchandise [or chaffering] of gold and of silver; the fruits thereof be the first and the cleanest.

¹⁵ It is more precious than all riches; and all things that be desired, may not be comparisoned to this.

¹⁶ Length of days is in the right half thereof, and riches and glory be in the left half thereof.

¹⁷ The ways thereof be fair ways, and all the paths thereof be peaceable.

¹⁸ It is a tree of life to them that take it; and he that holdeth it, is blessed.

¹⁹ The Lord founded the earth by wisdom; he stablished heavens by prudence.

²⁰ The depths of waters brake out by his wisdom; and clouds waxed alto-gether with dew.

²¹ My son, these things float not away [or not flow away] from thine eyes; keep thou my law, and my counsel;

²² and life shall be to thy soul, and grace to thy cheeks.

²³ Then thou shalt go trustily in thy way; and thy foot shall not stumble.

²⁴ If thou shalt sleep, thou shalt not dread; thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be soft [or and sweet shall be thy sleep].

²⁵ Dread thou not of sudden fear, and the powers of wicked men falling in on thee.

²⁶ For the Lord shall be at thy side; and he shall keep thy foot, that thou be not taken.

²⁷ Do not thou forbid to do well him that may; if thou mayest, also do thou well.

²⁸ Say thou not to thy friend, Go, and turn again, and tomorrow I shall give to thee; when thou mayest give anon.

²⁹ Imagine thou not evil to thy friend, when he hath trust in thee.

³⁰ Strive thou not against a man without cause, when he doeth none evil to thee.

³¹ Pursue thou not an unjust [or unrightwise] man, pursue [or follow] thou not his ways.

³² For each deceiver is abomination to the Lord; and his speaking is with simple men.

³³ Neediness is sent of the Lord in the house of a wicked man; but the dwelling places of just [or rightwise] men shall be blessed.

³⁴ He shall scorn [the] scorners; and he shall give grace to mild men.

³⁵ Wise men shall have glory; [the] enhancing of fools is shame.