Reformation Directory

1.Be *not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

2.For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lips speak mischief.

3.Through wisdom is an house builded, and with understanding, it is established.

4.And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious, and pleasant riches.

5.A wise man is strong: for a man of understanding increaseth his strength.

6.*For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy war, and in the multitude of them that can give counsel, is health.

7.Wisdom is high to a fool: therefore he can not open not his mouth in the ^agate.

8.He that imagineth to do evil, men shall call him an author of wickedness.

9.The wicked thought of a fool is sin, and the scorner is an abomination unto men.

10.If thou be ^bfaint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

11.Deliver them that are drawn ^cto death, and wilt thou not preserve them that are led to be slain?

12.If thou say, Behold, we knewe not of it: he that pondereth the hearts, doeth not he understand it? and he that keepeth thy soul, knoweth he it not? will not he also recompense every man according to his works?

13.My son, eat ^dhoney, for it is good, and the honey comb, for it is sweet unto thy mouth.

14.So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul, if thou find it, & there shalbe an ^end, & thine hope shall not be cut off.

15.Lay not wait, ô wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoil not his resting place.

16.For a just man ^efalleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked fall into mischief.

17.Be thou not glad when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart rejoice when he stumbleth,

18.Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn his wrath ^ffrom him.

19.*Fret not thy self because of the malicious, neither be envious at the wicked.

20.For there shalbe none end of plagues to the evil man: *the light of the wicked shalbe put out.

21.My son, fear the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are seditious.

22.For their destruction shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them ^gboth?

23.ALSO THESE THINGS PERTAIN TO THE WISE, It is not good ^to have respect of any person in judgment.

24.He that saith to the wicked, *Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhor him.

25.But to them that rebuke him, shalbe pleasure, and upon them shall come the blessing of goodness.

26.They shall kiss the lips of him that answereth upright words.

27.Prepare thy work without, and make ready thy things in the field, ^hand after, build thine house.

28.Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceive with thy lips?

29.*Say not, I will do to him, as he hath done to me, I ⁱwill recompense every man according to his work.

30.I passed by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man destitute of understanding.

31.And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

32.Then I beheld, and I considered it well: I looked upon it, and ^kreceived instruction.

33.Yet a little sleep, ^la little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

34.So thy poverty cometh as one that travaileth by the way, and thy necessity like an armed man.

Proverbs 24

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