Proverbs 24:1-14 ▼

1 Be not thou enuious to folow wicked men, and desire not to be among them:

2 For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.

3 Thorowe wysdome is an house buylded, & with vnderstanding is it set vp.

4 Thorowe discretion shall the chaumbers be filled with all costly and pleasaunt riches.

5 A wise man is euer strong: yea a man of vnderstanding increaseth strength.

6 For with discretion must warres be taken in hand: and where as are many that can geue counsaile, there is health.

7 Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.

8 He that imagineth mischiefe, maye well be called an vngratious person.

9 The wicked thought of the foolishe is sinne: and the scornefull is an abhomination vnto men.

10 If thou be faynt in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.

11 Deliuer them that are drawen vnto death, and ceasse not to preserue them that are led to be slayne:

12 If thou wylt say, beholde I knewe not of it: doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that kepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Shall not he also recompence euery man according to his workes?

13 My sonne, eate thou hony because it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth:

14 So sweete shal the knowledge of wysdome be vnto thy soule when thou hast found it: and there shalbe hope, and thy hope shall not be cut of.