YOUNG MEN

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• Exodus 24:3

  Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

• Exodus 24:4

  Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Exodus 24:5

  He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

• 1 Kings 12:6

  King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

• 1 Kings 12:7

  They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

• 1 Kings 12:8

  But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

• 1 Kings 12:9

  He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

• 1 Kings 12:10

  The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

• 1 Kings 12:11

  Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

• 1 Kings 12:12

  So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

• 1 Kings 12:13

  The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

• 1 Kings 12:14

  and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

• 1 Kings 12:15

  So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

• 2 Chronicles 10:8

  But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

• Psalms 119:9

  How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

• Psalms 148:12

  both young men and maidens; old men and children:

• Psalms 148:13

  let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

• Proverbs 1:1

  The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

• Proverbs 1:2

  to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

• Proverbs 1:3

  to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

• Proverbs 1:4

  to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

• Proverbs 1:5

  that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

• Proverbs 1:6

  to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

• Proverbs 1:8

  My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

• Proverbs 1:9

  for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

• Proverbs 1:10

  My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

• Proverbs 1:11

  If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

• Proverbs 1:12

  Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

• Proverbs 1:13

  We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

• Proverbs 1:14

  You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.”

• Proverbs 1:15

  My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

• Proverbs 1:16

  for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

• Proverbs 1:17

  For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

• Proverbs 1:18

  but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

• Proverbs 1:19

  So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

• Proverbs 1:20

  Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

• Proverbs 1:21

  She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 1:23

  Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

• Proverbs 1:24

  Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

• Proverbs 1:25

  but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

• Proverbs 1:26

  I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

• Proverbs 1:27

  when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

• Proverbs 1:28

  Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

• Proverbs 1:29

  because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

• Proverbs 1:30

  They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

• Proverbs 1:31

  Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

• Proverbs 1:32

  For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

• Proverbs 1:33

  But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

• Proverbs 2:1

  My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

• Proverbs 2:2

  So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

• Proverbs 2:3

  Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

• Proverbs 2:4

  If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

• Proverbs 2:5

  then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

• Proverbs 2:6

  For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

• Proverbs 2:7

  He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

• Proverbs 2:8

  that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

• Proverbs 2:9

  Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

• Proverbs 2:10

  For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

• Proverbs 2:11

  Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

• Proverbs 2:12

  to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

• Proverbs 2:13

  who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

• Proverbs 2:14

  who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

• Proverbs 2:15

  who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

• Proverbs 2:16

  To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

• Proverbs 2:17

  who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

• Proverbs 2:18

  for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

• Proverbs 2:19

  None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

• Proverbs 2:20

  that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

• Proverbs 2:21

  For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

• Proverbs 2:22

  But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

• Proverbs 3:1

  My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

• Proverbs 3:2

  for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

• Proverbs 3:3

  Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

• Proverbs 3:4

  So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

• Proverbs 3:6

  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

• Proverbs 3:7

  Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

• Proverbs 3:8

  It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

• Proverbs 3:9

  Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

• Proverbs 3:10

  so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

• Proverbs 3:11

  My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

• Proverbs 3:12

  for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

• Proverbs 3:13

  Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

• Proverbs 3:14

  For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

• Proverbs 3:15

  She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

• Proverbs 3:16

  Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

• Proverbs 3:17

  Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

• Proverbs 3:18

  She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

• Proverbs 3:19

  By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

• Proverbs 3:20

  By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

• Proverbs 3:21

  My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

• Proverbs 3:22

  so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

• Proverbs 3:23

  Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.

• Proverbs 3:24

  When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

• Proverbs 3:25

  Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

• Proverbs 3:26

  for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

• Proverbs 3:27

  Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

• Proverbs 3:28

  Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

• Proverbs 3:29

  Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

• Proverbs 3:30

  Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

• Proverbs 3:31

  Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

• Proverbs 3:32

  For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

• Proverbs 3:33

  Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

• Proverbs 3:34

  Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

• Proverbs 3:35

  The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

• Proverbs 4:1

  Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

• Proverbs 4:2

  for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

• Proverbs 4:3

  For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

• Proverbs 4:4

  He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

• Proverbs 4:5

  Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

• Proverbs 4:6

  Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

• Proverbs 4:7

  Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

• Proverbs 4:8

  Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

• Proverbs 4:9

  She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

• Proverbs 4:10

  Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

• Proverbs 4:11

  I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

• Proverbs 4:12

  When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

• Proverbs 4:13

  Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

• Proverbs 4:14

  Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

• Proverbs 4:15

  Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

• Proverbs 4:16

  For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

• Proverbs 4:17

  For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

• Proverbs 4:18

  But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

• Proverbs 4:19

  The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

• Proverbs 4:20

  My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

• Proverbs 4:21

  Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

• Proverbs 4:22

  For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

• Proverbs 4:23

  Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

• Proverbs 4:24

  Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

• Proverbs 4:25

  Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

• Proverbs 4:26

  Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

• Proverbs 4:27

  Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

• Proverbs 5:1

  My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

• Proverbs 5:2

  that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

• Proverbs 5:3

  For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

• Proverbs 5:4

  but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

• Proverbs 5:5

  Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

• Proverbs 5:6

  She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

• Proverbs 5:7

  Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

• Proverbs 5:8

  Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

• Proverbs 5:9

  lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

• Proverbs 5:10

  lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

• Proverbs 5:11

  You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

• Proverbs 5:12

  and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

• Proverbs 5:13

  neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

• Proverbs 5:14

  I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

• Proverbs 5:15

  Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

• Proverbs 5:16

  Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

• Proverbs 5:17

  Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

• Proverbs 5:18

  Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

• Proverbs 5:19

  A loving doe and a graceful deer — let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

• Proverbs 5:20

  For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

• Proverbs 5:21

  For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

• Proverbs 5:22

  The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

• Proverbs 5:23

  He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

• Proverbs 6:1

  My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

• Proverbs 6:2

  You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

• Proverbs 6:3

  Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

• Proverbs 6:4

  Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

• Proverbs 6:5

  Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

• Proverbs 6:6

  Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

• Proverbs 6:7

  which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

• Proverbs 6:8

  provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

• Proverbs 6:9

  How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

• Proverbs 6:10

  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

• Proverbs 6:11

  so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

• Proverbs 6:12

  A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

• Proverbs 6:13

  who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

• Proverbs 6:14

  in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

• Proverbs 6:15

  Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

• Proverbs 6:16

  There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

• Proverbs 6:17

  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

• Proverbs 6:18

  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

• Proverbs 6:19

  a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

• Proverbs 6:20

  My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

• Proverbs 6:21

  Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

• Proverbs 6:22

  When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

• Proverbs 6:23

  For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

• Proverbs 6:24

  to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

• Proverbs 6:25

  Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

• Proverbs 6:26

  For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

• Proverbs 6:27

  Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

• Proverbs 6:28

  Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

• Proverbs 6:29

  So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

• Proverbs 6:30

  Men don’t despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

• Proverbs 6:31

  but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

• Proverbs 6:32

  He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

• Proverbs 6:33

  He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

• Proverbs 6:34

  For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

• Proverbs 6:35

  He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

• Proverbs 7:1

  My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

• Proverbs 7:2

  Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

• Proverbs 7:3

  Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

• Proverbs 7:4

  Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

• Proverbs 7:5

  that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

• Proverbs 7:6

  For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

• Proverbs 7:7

  I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

• Proverbs 7:8

  passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

• Proverbs 7:9

  in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

• Proverbs 7:10

  Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

• Proverbs 7:11

  She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

• Proverbs 7:12

  Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

• Proverbs 7:13

  So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

• Proverbs 7:14

  “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

• Proverbs 7:15

  Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

• Proverbs 7:16

  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

• Proverbs 7:17

  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

• Proverbs 7:18

  Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

• Proverbs 7:19

  For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

• Proverbs 7:20

  He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

• Proverbs 7:21

  With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

• Proverbs 7:22

  He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

• Proverbs 7:23

  Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

• Proverbs 7:24

  Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

• Proverbs 7:25

  Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

• Proverbs 7:26

  for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

• Proverbs 7:27

  Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

• Proverbs 10:1

  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

• Proverbs 13:1

  A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

• Proverbs 15:5

  A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

• Proverbs 15:20

  A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

• Proverbs 17:2

  A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

• Proverbs 17:25

  A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

• Proverbs 19:13

  A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

• Proverbs 19:26

  He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

• Proverbs 19:27

  If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

• Proverbs 20:29

  The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

• Proverbs 23:15

  My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

• Proverbs 23:16

  yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.

• Proverbs 23:17

  Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

• Proverbs 23:18

  Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

• Proverbs 23:19

  Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

• Proverbs 23:20

  Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

• Proverbs 23:21

  for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Proverbs 23:22

  Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

• Proverbs 23:23

  Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

• Proverbs 23:24

  The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

• Proverbs 23:25

  Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

• Proverbs 23:26

  My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

• Proverbs 23:27

  For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

• Proverbs 23:28

  Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

• Proverbs 23:29

  Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

• Proverbs 23:30

  Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

• Proverbs 23:31

  Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

• Proverbs 23:32

  In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

• Proverbs 23:33

  Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

• Proverbs 23:34

  Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

• Proverbs 23:35

  “They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

• Proverbs 24:1

  Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:

• Proverbs 24:2

  for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

• Proverbs 24:3

  Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

• Proverbs 24:4

  by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

• Proverbs 24:5

  A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

• Proverbs 24:6

  for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

• Proverbs 24:7

  Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

• Proverbs 24:8

  One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

• Proverbs 24:9

  The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

• Proverbs 24:10

  If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

• Proverbs 24:11

  Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

• Proverbs 24:12

  If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

• Proverbs 24:13

  My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

• Proverbs 24:14

  so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

• Proverbs 24:15

  Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place:

• Proverbs 24:16

  for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

• Proverbs 24:17

  Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

• Proverbs 24:18

  lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

• Proverbs 24:19

  Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:

• Proverbs 24:20

  for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

• Proverbs 24:21

  My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:

• Proverbs 24:22

  for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both — who knows?

• Proverbs 24:23

  These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

• Proverbs 24:24

  He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous”; peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him —

• Proverbs 24:25

  but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

• Proverbs 24:26

  An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

• Proverbs 24:27

  Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

• Proverbs 24:28

  Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

• Proverbs 24:29

  Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

• Proverbs 24:30

  I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

• Proverbs 24:31

  Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

• Proverbs 24:32

  Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

• Proverbs 24:33

  a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

• Proverbs 24:34

  so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

• Proverbs 27:11

  Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

• Proverbs 28:7

  Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

• Proverbs 29:3

  Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

• Proverbs 31:1

  The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.

• Proverbs 31:2

  “Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

• Proverbs 31:3

  Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

• Jeremiah 22:18

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’

• Jeremiah 22:19

  He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

• Jeremiah 22:20

  “Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.

• Jeremiah 22:21

  I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

• Matthew 19:16

  Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

• Matthew 19:17

  He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

• Matthew 19:18

  He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

• Matthew 19:19

  ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

• Matthew 19:20

  The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”