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Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them. |
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For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak. |
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By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself. |
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And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, [With] all precious and pleasant wealth. |
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Mighty [is] the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power, |
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For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance [is] in a multitude of counsellors. |
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Wisdom [is] high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth. |
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Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts. |
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The thought of folly [is] sin, And an abomination to man [is] a scorner. |
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Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power, |
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If [from] delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back. |
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When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.` Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work. |
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Eat my son, honey that [is] good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate. |
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So [is] the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off. |
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Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place. |
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For seven [times] doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil. |
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In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful, |
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Lest Jehovah see, and [it be] evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger. |
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Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked, |
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For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished. |
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Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself, |
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For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth! |
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These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good. |
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Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou [art] righteous,` Peoples execrate him -- nations abhor him. |
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And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing. |
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Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words. |
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Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house. |
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Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips. |
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Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.` |
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Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart. |
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And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down. |
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And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction, |
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A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down. |
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And thy poverty hath come [as] a traveller, And thy want as an armed man! |
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