Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 27

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Chapter 28

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  The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.  

 

 

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  By the transgression of a land many [are] its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right -- it is prolonged.  

 

 

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  A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, [Is] a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.  

 

 

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  Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.  

 

 

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  Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.  

 

 

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  Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.  

 

 

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  Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.  

 

 

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  Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.  

 

 

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  Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer [is] an abomination.  

 

 

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10


 

  Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.  

 

 

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  A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.  

 

 

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  In the exulting of the righteous the glory [is] abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.  

 

 

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  Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.  

 

 

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  O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.  

 

 

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  A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.  

 

 

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  A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.  

 

 

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  A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.  

 

 

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  Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.  

 

 

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  Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled [with] poverty.  

 

 

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  A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.  

 

 

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  To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.  

 

 

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  Troubled for wealth [is] the man [with] an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.  

 

 

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  Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.  

 

 

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  Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.  

 

 

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25


 

  Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.  

 

 

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26


 

  Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.  

 

 

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27


 

  Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.  

 

 

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  In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!  

 

 

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Proverbs 29

 

 

 

 

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