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Proverbs 24
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
1Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:
1Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:
2For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.
2Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.
3The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:
3By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.
4And by knowledge its rooms are full of all dear and pleasing things.
4By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth.
5A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.
5A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.
6For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.
6Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
7Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
7Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.
8He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.
8He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool.
9The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.
9The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination of men.
10If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
10If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
11Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.
11Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver.
12If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?
12If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.
13My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:
13Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
14So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
14So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.
15Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:
15Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
16For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.
16For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.
17Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:
17When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:
18For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.
18Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
19Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:
19Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly.
20For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.
20For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
21My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:
21My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.
22For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?
22For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
23These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.
23These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
24He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.
24They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
25But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.
25They that rebuke him shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
26He gives a kiss with his lips who gives a right answer.
26He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
27Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
27Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
28Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.
28Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
29Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.
29Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
30I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
30I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
31And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.
31And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
32Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.
32Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.