Proverbs
May 1998
May 31, 1998 = = Prov 26:12
Have you seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for the stupid one than for him.
May 30, 1998 = = Prov 9:12
If you have become wise, you have become wise in your own behalf; and if you have ridiculed, you will bear [it], just you alone.
May 29, 1998 = = Prov 24:1
Do not be envious of bad men, and do not show yourself craving to get in with them.
May 28, 1998 = = Prov 29:5
An able-bodied man that is flattering his companion is spreading out a mere net for his steps.
May 27, 1998 = = Prov 19:19
He that is of great rage will be bearing the fine; for if you would deliver [him], you will also keep doing it again and again.
May 26, 1998 = = Prov 27:14
He that is blessing his fellowman with a loud voice early in the morning, as a malediction it will be accounted on his part.
May 25, 1998 = = Eccl 7:10
Do not say: "Why has it happened that the former days proved to be better than these?" for it is not due to wisdom that you have asked about this.
May 24, 1998 = = Eccl 7:9
Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones.
May 23, 1998 = = Prov 26:7
Have the legs of the lame one drawn up water? Then there is a proverb in the mouth of stupid people.
May 22, 1998 = = Prov 27:1
Do not make your boast about the next day, for you do not know what a day will give birth to.
May 21, 1998 = = Prov 1:17
It is for nothing that the net is spread before the eyes of anything owning wings.
May 20, 1998 = = Prov 1:8
Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother.
May 19, 1998 = = Prov 29:11
All his spirit is what a stupid one lets out, but he that is wise keeps it calm to the last.
May 18, 1998 = = Prov 1:7
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge. Wisdom and discipline are what mere fools have despised.
May 17, 1998 = = Prov 19:22
The desirable thing in earthling man is his loving-kindness; and one of little means is better than a lying man.
May 16, 1998 = = Eccl 10:4
If the spirit of a ruler should mount up against you, do not leave your own place, for calmness itself allays great sins.
May 15, 1998 = = Prov 26:4
Do not answer anyone stupid according to his foolishness, that you yourself also may not become equal to him.
May 14, 1998 = = Prov 13:20
He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.
May 13, 1998 = = Prov 22:24
Do not have companionship with anyone given to anger, and with a man having fits of rage you must not enter in.
May 12, 1998 = = Prov 15:1
An answer, when mild, turns away rage, but a word causing pain makes anger to come up.
May 11, 1998 = = Prov 26:5
Answer someone stupid according to his foolishness, that he may not become someone wise in his own eyes.
May 10, 1998 = = Prov 26:9
As a thorny weed has come up into the hand of a drunkard, so a proverb into the mouth of stupid people.
May 09, 1998 = = Prov 15:27
The one making unjust profit is bringing ostracism upon his own house, but the hater of gifts is the one that will keep living.
May 08, 1998 = = Prov 14:23
By every kind of toil there comes to be an advantage, but merely the word of the lips tends to want.
May 07, 1998 = = Eccl 3:1
For there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens.
May 06, 1998 = = Prov 28:4
Those who are leaving the law praise the wicked one, but those who are keeping the law excite themselves against them.
May 05, 1998 = = Eccl 9:4
As respects whoever is joined to all the living there exists confidence, because a live dog is better off than a dead lion.
May 04, 1998 = = Prov 15:22
There is a frustrating of plans where there is no confidential talk, but in the multitude of counselors there is accomplishment.
May 03, 1998 = = Prov 27:11
Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me.
May 02, 1998 = = Prov 20:1
Wine is a ridiculer, intoxicating liquor is boisterous, and everyone going astray by it is not wise.
May 01, 1998 = = Prov 16:33
Into the lap the lot is cast down, but every decision by it is from Jehovah.