< Proverbs 24 >

1 May not you be jealous of people of evil and may not (you desire *Q(k)*) to be with them.
Be not thou envious against evil men, nor desire to be with them.
2 For violence it plots heart their and trouble lips their they speak.
For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
3 By wisdom it is built a house and by understanding it is established.
Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established,
4 And by knowledge rooms they are filled all wealth precious and pleasant.
and by knowledge the chambers are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
5 A man wise [who is] in strength and a person of knowledge [is] making firm strength.
A wise man is strong, yea, a man of knowledge increases might.
6 For by wise directions you will make for yourself war and victory [is] in a multitude of counselor[s].
For by wise guidance thou shall make thy war, and in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
7 [are] high For a fool wisdom in the gate not he opens mouth his.
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.
8 [one who] plans To do evil him master of plots people will call.
He who devises to do evil, men shall call him a mischief-maker.
9 A plan of foolishness [is] sin and [is] an abomination to humankind a mocker.
The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
10 You have shown yourself without courage in a day of trouble [is] narrow strength your.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
11 Deliver [those being] taken to death and [those who] are staggering to the slaughter if you will restrain.
Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.
12 If you will say here! not we knew this ¿ not [one who] weighs hearts - he does he perceive and [one who] guards life your he does he know? and will he repay? to a person according to work his.
If thou say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?
13 Eat O son my honey for [it is] good and honey from [the] comb [is] sweet on palate your.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste,
14 Thus - know! wisdom for self your if you find [it] and there [is] a future and hope your not it will be cut off.
so the knowledge of wisdom is to thy soul. If thou have found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
15 May not you lie in wait wicked [person] to [the] habitation of a righteous [person] may not you devastate resting place his.
Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place.
16 For seven [times] - he will fall a righteous [person] and he will rise and wicked [people] they will stumble in trouble.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
17 When falls (enemy your *Q(K)*) may not you rejoice and when stumbles he may not it rejoice heart your.
Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown,
18 Lest he should see Yahweh and it will be displeasing in view his and he will turn back from towards him anger his.
lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
19 May not you fret yourself by evil-doers may not you be jealous of wicked [people].
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, nor be thou envious at the wicked.
20 For - not it will belong a future to the evil [person] [the] lamp of wicked [people] it will be extinguished.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
21 Fear Yahweh O son my and [the] king with [those who] change may not you get involved.
My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king, and do not associate with those who are given to change.
22 For suddenly it will arise calamity their and [the] disaster of both of them who? [is] knowing.
For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and the destruction from them both, who knows it?
23 Also these [belong] to wise [people] to pay regard to face in judgment not [is] good.
These also are from the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.
24 [one who] says - To a wicked [person] [are] righteous you they will curse him peoples they will denounce him nations.
He who says to a wicked man, Thou are righteous, peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him.
25 And for the [ones who] rebuke [them] it will be pleasant and on them it will come blessing of good thing[s].
But to those who rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
26 Lips he kisses [one who] bring back words right.
He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.
27 Establish on the outside - work your and make ready it in the field for yourself after and you will build house your.
Prepare thy work outside, and make it ready for thee in the field, and afterwards build thy house.
28 May not you be a witness without cause in neighbor your and ¿ will you deceive with lips your.
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips.
29 May not you say just as he has done to me so I will do to him I will repay to the person according to deed his.
Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.
30 At [the] field of a person lazy I passed by and at [the] vineyard of a person lacking of heart.
I went by the field of the sluggard, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
31 And there! it had grown up all of it - thorns they were covered surface its nettles and [the] wall of stones its it was broken down.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles, and the stone wall of it was broken down.
32 And I saw I I set heart my I saw I received instruction.
Then I beheld, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
33 A little of sleep a little of slumber a little of - folding of hands to rest.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
34 And it will come going about poverty your and poverti your like a man of shield.
so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

< Proverbs 24 >