RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

16 What tov is wealth in the hands of a fool who has no
desire to get chochmah?
17 A chaver loves at all times, and a brother is born for
adversity. 3996
18 A man void of binah shakes hands in a pledge, and
becomes a guarantor in the presence of his chaver.
19 He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that
exalts his gate seeks destruction.
20 He that has a perverted lev finds no tov: and he that
has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.
21 He that brings forth a fool does it to his sorrow:
and the abba of a fool has no simcha.
22 A lev of simcha does tov like medicine: but a broken
ruach dries the bones.
23 A wicked man takes a bribe behind the back to pervert
the halachot of mishpat.
24 Chochmah is before him that has binah; but the eyes of
a fool are in the ends of the earth.
25 A foolish son is a grief to his abba, and bitterness to
her that bore him.
26 Also to punish the tzadik is not tov, nor to smite
leaders for speaking emet.
27 He that has da’at spares his words: and a man of binah
is of an excellent ruach.
28 Even a fool, when he holds his shalom, is counted as
wise: and he that shuts his lips is regarded as a man of
binah.
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The inactive separatist seeks his own desire; he
breaks out against all sound chochmah. 3997
2 A fool has no delight in binah, but only in revealing his
lev.
3 When the wicked man comes, then comes also shame,
disfavor and iniquity.
4 The words of a man’s mouth are as deep mayim, and
the wellspring of chochmah as a flowing brook.
5 It is not tov to accept the person of the wicked, to
overthrow the tzadik in mishpat.
6 A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls
for blows.
7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the
trap of his being.
8 The words of a slanderer are as wounds, and they go
down into the innermost parts of the belly.
9 He also that is lazy in his work is brother to him that is
a great waster.
10 The Name of vuvh is a strong tower: the tzadik runs
into it, and is safe. 3998
11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like a high
wall in his own conceit.
12 Before destruction the lev of man is haughty, and
before honor is humility.
13 He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly
and shame to him.
14 The ruach of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a
crushed ruach who can bear?
15 The lev of the clever gets da’at; and the ear of the wise
seeks da’at.
16 A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him
before great men.
17 He that is first in his own cause seems tzadik; until
another comes and examines him.
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18 The lot causes contentions to cease, and separates
between the mighty.
19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong
city: 3999 and contentions are like the bars of a castle.
20 A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his
mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
21 Death and chayim are in the power of the tongue: and
they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.
22 Whoever finds a wife finds a tov thing, and obtains
favor from vuvh.
23 The poor beseeches; but the rich answers roughly.
24 A man that has chaverim must show himself friendly:
and there is a chaver that sticks closer than a brother. 4000
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Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he
that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
2 Also, desire without da’at, it is not tov; and he that
rushes in with his feet sins.
3 The foolishness of man perverts his derech: and his lev is
angry against vuvh.
4 Wealth makes many chaverim; but the poor is separated
from his neighbor.
5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that
speaks lies shall not escape.
6 Many will entreat the favor of the sar: and every man is
a chaver to him that gives bribes.
7 All the brothers of the poor do hate him: how much
more do his chaverim go far from him? He pursues them
with words, yet they are gone.
8 He that gets chochmah loves his own being: he that
guards binah shall find tov.
9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that
speaks lies shall perish.
10 Luxury is not fitting for a fool; much less for an eved
to have rule over rulers.
11 The discretion of a man makes him patient; and it is to
his tifereth to overlook a transgression.
12 The melech’s anger is as the roaring of a lion; but his
favor is as dew upon the grass.
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his abba: 4001 and the
contentions of a wife are like continual drippings through
the roof.
14 House and riches are the inheritance of ahvot and a
clever wife is from vuvh.
15 Laziness casts one into a deep sleep; and an idle being
shall suffer hunger.
16 He that guards the commandment 4002 guards his own
being; but he that despises His halachot shall die.
17 He that has pity upon the poor lends to vuvh; and that
which he has given will be repaid to him again.
18 Discipline your son while there is tikvah, and let not
your being be set on his destruction.
19 A man of great anger shall suffer punishment: for if
you deliver him, you will have to do so again.
20 Listen to counsel, and receive discipline, that you may
be wise in your latter end.
21 There are many plans in a man’s lev; nevertheless the
counsel of vuvh shall stand.
22 What is desirable in a man is his chesed: and a poor
man is better than a liar.
23 The fear of vuvh leads to chayim: and he that has it
shall stay satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.