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4
1
Haughty eyes and a proud heart,
2
the lamp
[a]
of the wicked, are sin.
5
The plans of
3
the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is
4
hasty comes
5
only to poverty.
6
6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a
7
fleeting
8
vapor and a
9
snare of death.
[b]
7
The violence of the wicked will
10
sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
8
The way of the guilty
11
is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
9
It is
12
better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
10
The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
11
When
13
a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.
12
The Righteous One
14
observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin.
13
15
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
14
16
A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe,
[c]
strong wrath.
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Cross References
16
1.
See
Proverbs 6:17
;
Psalms 101:5
2.
1 Kings 11:36
3.
Proverbs 10:4
4.
[
Proverbs 19:2
]
5.
[
Proverbs 11:24
;
Proverbs 14:23
;
Proverbs 22:16
]
6.
Proverbs 20:21
; See
Proverbs 10:2
7.
[
Proverbs 13:11
]
8.
Job 13:25
9.
[
Proverbs 8:36
]
10.
[
Jeremiah 30:23
]
11.
[
Proverbs 2:15
]
12.
Proverbs 25:24
; [ver. 19;
Proverbs 19:13
;
Proverbs 27:15
]
13.
Proverbs 19:25
; See
Psalms 1:1
14.
Psalms 37:35, 36
15.
[
James 2:13
]; See
Matthew 18:30-34
16.
[
Proverbs 17:8
;
Proverbs 18:16
]
Footnotes
3
[a].
Or the plowing
[b].
Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Latin; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death
[c].
Hebrew a bribe in the bosom
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.