RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the
multitude of counselors they are established.
23 A man has simcha by the answer of his mouth: and a
word spoken in due season, how tov is it!
24 The path of chayim leads upward to the wise that he
may depart from Sheol beneath.
25 vuvh will destroy the bayit of the proud: but He will
establish the border of the widow.
26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to
vuvh: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
27 He that is greedy of unjust gain troubles his own bayit;
but he that hates bribes shall live.
28 The lev of the tzadik studies how to answer: but the
mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
29 vuvh is far from the wicked: but He hears the tefillah
of the tzadik.
30 The light of the eyes brings gilah in the lev: and a tov
report gives marrow to the bones.
31 The ear that hears the correction of chayim stays
among the wise.
32 He that refuses discipline despises his own being: but
he that hears correction gets binah.
33 The fear of vuvh is the discipline of chochmah; and
before honor is humility.
The preparations of the lev belong to man, but the
answer of the tongue, is from vuvh.
2 All the halachot of a man are clean in his own eyes; but
vuvh weighs the ruachim.
3 Commit your mitzvoth to vuvh, and your thoughts shall
be established.
4 vuvh has made all things for Himself: yes, even the
wicked for the day of evil.
5 Everyone that is proud in lev is an abomination to vuvh:
though evil joins in hand with others, it shall not be
unpunished.
6 By rachamim and emet iniquity is purged: and by the
fear of vuvh men depart from evil.
7 When a man’s halachot please vuvh, He makes even his
enemies to be at shalom with him.
8 Better is a little with tzedakah than great income
without right-ruling.
9 A man’s lev plans his own derech: but vuvh directs his
steps.
10 An oath is on the lips of the melech: his mouth
transgresses not in mishpat.
11 A tzadik weight and balance are vuvh’s: all the
weights of the bag are His work. 3995
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12 It is an abomination for melechim to commit
wickedness: for the kesay is established by tzedakah.
13 Righteous lips are the delight of melechim; and they
love him that speaks what is right.
14 The anger of a melech is as a messenger of death: but
a wise man will pacify it.
15 In the light of the melech’s face is chayim; and his
favor is as a cloud of the latter malchut-rain.
16 How much better is it to get chochmah than gold! And
to get binah rather than to choose silver!
17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he
that guards his derech preserves his being.
18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty ruach
before a fall.
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19 Better it is to be of a humble ruach with the humble,
than to divide the spoil with the proud.
20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find tov: and
whoever trusts in vuvh, happy is he.
21 The wise in lev shall be called clever: and the
sweetness of the lips increases learning.
22 Binah is a wellspring of chayim to him that has it: but
the discipline of fools is folly.
23 The lev of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds
learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the
being, and health to the bones.
25 There is a derech that seems right to a man, but the
ends of it are the derachot of death.
26 He that labors; labors for himself; for his mouth drives
him on.
27 A worthless man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as
a burning fire.
28 A perverted man sows strife: and a whisperer separates
best chaverim.
29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into
the derech that is not tov.
30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverted things: moving
his lips he brings evil to pass.
31 The gray hair is a crown of tifereth, if it be found in
the derech of tzedakah.
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and
he that rules over his ruach than he that takes a city.
33 The lot is cast into the lap; but every decision by it is
of vuvh.
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Better is a dry morsel of lechem, with rest, than a
bayit full of offerings with strife.
2 A wise eved shall have rule over a son that causes
shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the
brothers.
3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold:
but vuvh tries the levim.
4 An evil-doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear
to a nasty tongue.
5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches His Maker: and he
that has gilah at calamities shall not be unpunished.
6 Grandchildren are the keter of old men; and the tifereth
of the children in Yisrael are their ahvot.
7 Excellent speech does not fit a fool: much less do lying
lips befit a sar.
8 A bribe is as a precious stone in the eyes of its owner:
wherever it turns, it prospers for him.
9 He that covers a transgression seeks ahava; but he that
repeats a matter separates chaverim.
10 A correction enters more into a wise man than a
hundred stripes into a fool.
11 An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel
messenger shall be sent against him.
12 Let a bereaved bear meet a man, rather than a fool in
his folly.
13 Whoever rewards evil for tov, evil shall not depart
from his bayit.
14 The beginning of strife is like the releasing of mayim:
therefore stop a fight before it breaks forth.
15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the
tzadik, both are abominations to vuvh.