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CHAPTER 27.
THROUGH poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched,
turneth away his eye.
2 As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining
of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.
3 Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.
4 Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of
the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.
5 As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will
remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.
6 The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the
trial of affliction just men.
7 Be the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof,
so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.
8 Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the
trial of men.
9 If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and
shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and
she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt
find a strong foundation.
10 Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return
to them that practise her.
11 The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sine
for them that work iniquities.
12 A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a
fool is changed as the moon.
13 In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its
time: but be continually among men that think.
14 The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their
laughter is at the pleasures of sin.
15 The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of
the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.
16 Is the quarrels of the proud is the shedding of
blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.
17 He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his
credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.
18 Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with
fidelity.
19 But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more
after him.
20 For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so also is
he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.
21 And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand,
so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again.
22 Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off,
he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare: because his soul is wounded.
23 Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there
is reconciliation:
24 But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no
hope to an unhappy soul.
25 He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things,
and no man will cast him off:
26 In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth,
and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy
words he will lay a stumblingblock.
27 I have hated many things, but not like him, and the
Lord will hate him.
28 If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his
own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful.
29 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he
that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that
layeth a snare for another, shall perish in it.
30 A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the
author, and he shall not know from whence it cometh to him.
31 Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance
as a lion shall lie in wait for him.
32 They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with
the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die.
33 Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the
sinful man shall be subject to them.
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