Proverbs
April 1999
April 30, 1999 = = Prov 8:24
``When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water.''
April 29, 1999 = = Prov 8:23
``From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth.''
April 28, 1999 = = Prov 8:22
``Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago.''
April 27, 1999 = = Prov 8:20,21
``In the path of righteousness I walk, in the middle of the roadways of judgment, to cause those loving me to take possession of substance; and their storehouses I keep filled.''
April 26, 1999 = = Prov 8:19
``My fruitage is better than gold, even than refined gold, and my produce than choice silver.''
April 25, 1999 = = Prov 8:18
``Riches and glory are with me, hereditary values and righteousness.''
April 24, 1999 = = Prov 8:17
``Those loving me I myself love, and those looking for me are the ones that find me.''
April 23, 1999 = = Prov 8:16
``By me princes themselves keep ruling as princes, and nobles are all judging in righteousness.''
April 22, 1999 = = Prov 8:15
``By me kings themselves keep reigning, and high officials themselves keep decreeing righteousness.''
April 21, 1999 = = Prov 8:14
``I have counsel and practical wisdom. I--understanding; I have mightiness.''
April 20, 1999 = = Prov 8:13
``The fear of Jehovah means the hating of bad. Self-exaltation and pride and the bad way and the perverse mouth I have hated.''
April 19, 1999 = = Prov 8:12
``I, wisdom, I have resided with shrewdness and I find even the knowledge of thinking abilities.''
April 18, 1999 = = Prov 8:11
For wisdom is better than corals, and all other delights themselves cannot be made equal to it.
April 17, 1999 = = Prov 8:1
Does not wisdom keep calling out, and discernment keep giving forth its voice?
April 16, 1999 = = Prov 6:32
Anyone committing adultery with a woman is in want of heart; he that does it is bringing his own soul to ruin.
April 15, 1999 = = Prov 31:31
[Taw]
GIVE her of the fruitage of her hands, and let her works praise her even in the gates.
April 14, 1999 = = Prov 31:30
[Shin]
Charm may be false, and prettiness may be vain; [but] the woman that fears Jehovah is the one that procures praise for herself.
April 13, 1999 = = Prov 31:25
[`Ayin]
Strength and splendor are her clothing, and she laughs at a future day.
April 12, 1999 = = Prov 31:14
[He']
She has proved to be like the ships of a merchant. From far away she brings in her food.
April 11, 1999 = = Prov 31:7
Let one drink and forget one's poverty, and let one remember one's own trouble no more.
April 10, 1999 = = Prov 31:6
Give intoxicating liquor, YOU people, to the one about to perish and wine to those who are bitter of soul.
April 09, 1999 = = Prov 31:4,5
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for high officials [to say:] ``Where is intoxicating liquor'' that one may not drink and forget what is decreed and pervert the cause of any of the sons of affliction.
April 08, 1999 = = Prov 31:3
Do not give your vital energy to women, nor your ways to [what leads to] wiping out kings.
April 07, 1999 = = Prov 30:33
For the churning of milk is what brings forth butter, and the squeezing of the nose is what brings forth blood, and the squeezing out of anger is what brings forth quarreling.
April 06, 1999 = = Prov 30:32
If you have acted senselessly by lifting yourself up, and if you have fixed your thought [upon it], [put] the hand to the mouth.
April 05, 1999 = = Prov 30:29-31
There are three that do well in [their] pacing, and four that do well in [their] moving along: the lion, which is the mightiest among the beasts and which does not turn back from before anyone; the greyhound or the he-goat, and a king of a band of soldiers of his own people.
April 04, 1999 = = Prov 30:24-28
There are four things that are the smallest of the earth, but they are instinctively wise: the ants are a people not strong, and yet in the summer they prepare their food; the rock badgers are a people not mighty, and yet upon a crag is where they put their house; the locusts have no king, and yet they go forth all of them divided into groups; the gecko lizard takes hold with its own hands and it is in the grand palace of a king.
April 03, 1999 = = Prov 30:21-23
Under three things the earth has been agitated, and under four it is not able to endure: under a slave when he rules as king, and someone senseless when he has his sufficiency of food; under a hated woman when she is taken possession of as a wife, and a maidservant when she dispossesses her mistress.
April 02, 1999 = = Prov 30:20
Here is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and has wiped her mouth and she has said:``I have committed no wrong.''
April 01, 1999 = = Prov 30:18,19
There are three things that have proved too wonderful for me, and four that I have not come to know:
the way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea and the way of an able-bodied man with a maiden.