RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

27 For a whore is like a deep ditch; and a strange woman
is a narrow pit.
28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the
transgressors among the men of Yisrael.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has
contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds
without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
30 They that stay long drinking wine; they that go to seek
mixed wine.
31 Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it gives
its color in the cup, when it flows smoothly.
32 In the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an
adder.
33 When your eyes shall behold strange women, your lev
shall utter perverse things.
34 Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of
the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
35 They have smote me, and I was not sick; they have beaten
me, and I felt it not: when I shall awake, I will seek it yet
again.
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Be not envious of evil men, neither desire to be with
them.
2 For their lev studies destruction, and their lips talk of
mischief.
3 Through chochmah is the bayit built; and by binah it is
established: 4011
4 And by da’at shall the rooms be filled with all precious
and pleasant riches.
5 A wise man is strong; yes, a man of da’at increases
strength.
6 For by wise counsel you shall make war: and in a
multitude of counselors there is safety.
7 Chochmah is too high for a fool: he opens not his mouth
in the gate.
8 He that plans to do evil shall be called a mischievous
person.
9 The purpose of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an
abomination to men.
10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is
small.
11 Deliver them that are drawn to death, and redeem
those that are ready to be slain; 4012
12 If you say, Behold, we did not know; does not He that
ponders the lev consider it? And He that guards your
being, does He not know it? And shall not He repay to
every man according to his works?
13 My son, eat honey, because it is tov; and the
honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:
14 So shall the da’at of chochmah be to your being: when
you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your
tikvah shall not be cut off.
15 Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of
the tzadik; spoil not his resting place:
16 For a tzadik man falls seven times, and rises up again:
but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
17 Gilah not when your enemy falls, and let not your lev
be in simcha when he stumbles:
18 Lest vuvh see it, and it displeases Him, and He turn
away His anger from him.
19 Do not concern yourself because of evil men, neither
be envious of the wicked;
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20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the lamp
of the wicked shall be put out.
21 My son, fear vuvh and the melech: and meddle not
with them that are given to change:
22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows
the ruin of them both?
23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not tov to
show partiality in mishpat.
24 He that says to the wicked, You are tzadik; the people
shall curse, nations shall abhor him:
25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a tov
blessing shall come upon them.
26 Every man shall kiss his lips 4013 when a mishpat is
given in answer.
27 Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself
in the field; and afterwards build your bayit.
28 Be not a witness against your neighbor without a
cause; and deceive not with your lips.
29 Do not say, I will do to him as he has done to me: I
will render to the man according to his work.
30 I went by the field of the lazy, and by the vineyard of
the man without binah;
31 And, see, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles
had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken
down.
32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked at it, and
received discipline.
33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep:
34 So shall your poverty come suddenly; and your lack as
a runner.
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These are also Mishle of Shlomo, which the men of
Hizqiyahu melech of Yahudah copied.
2 It is the tifereth of Elohim to conceal a matter: but the
honor of melechim is to search out a matter.
3 The shamayim for height, and the earth for depth, and
the lev of melechim is unsearchable.
4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall
come forth a vessel from the refiner.
5 Take away the wicked from before the melech, and his
kesay shall be established in tzedakah.
6 Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the melech, and
stand not in the place of great men:
7 For better if it is said concerning you, Come up here;
than that you should be removed from the presence of the
sar whom your eyes have seen.
8 Do not rush to strive, lest you know not what to do in
the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
9 Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and do
not disclose a secret to another:
10 Lest he that hears it puts you to shame, and your bad
reputation never leaves.
11 A word spoken at the right time is like apples of gold
in settings of silver.
12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so
is a wise one’s reproof to an obedient ear.
13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a
faithful messenger to those that send him: for he refreshes
the being of his masters.
14 Whoever boasts about his gifts falsely, is like clouds
and wind without rain.