Month: March 2025

10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;Better is a neighbor…

27 Do not boast about tomorrow,For you do not know what a day may bring forth.2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;A stranger, and not…

22 The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,And they go down into the [k]innermost parts of the body.23 Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver drossAre burning lips and…

15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;He is weary of bringing it to his mouth again.16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyesThan seven men…

8 Like [d]one who binds a stone in a sling,So is he who gives honor to a fool.9 Like a thorn which [e]falls into the hand of a drunkard,So is…

26 Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,So honor is not fitting for a fool.2 Like a sparrow in its [a]flitting, like a swallow in its flying,So a curse without cause does…

23 The north wind brings forth rain,And a [r]backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.24 It is better to live in a corner of the roofThan [s]in a house shared with…

15 By [j]forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,And a soft tongue breaks the bone.16 Have you found honey? Eat only [k]what you need,That you not have it in excess and…

8 Do not go out hastily to [a]argue your case;[b]Otherwise, what will you do in [c]the end,When your neighbor humiliates you?9 [d]Argue your case with your neighbor,And do not reveal the…

25 These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transcribed. 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,But the…