Proverbs 24:1-14 ▼

1 Bee not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.

2 For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

3 Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.

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

5 A wise man is strong: for a man of vnderstanding encreaseth his strength.

6 For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.

7 Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.

8 Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.

9 The wicked thought of a foole is sinne, and the scorner is an abomination vnto men.

10 If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.

11 Deliuer them that are drawen to death: wilt thou not preserue them that are led to be slaine?

12 If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it? And hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?

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

14 So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.