NHEBME - Proverbs - 3

3:1  My son, do not forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

3:2  for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

3:3  Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

3:4  So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

3:5  Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

3:6  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

3:7  Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

3:8  It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

3:9  Honor the Lord with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

3:10  so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

3:11  My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

3:12  for whom the Lord loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

3:13  Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

3:14  For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

3:15  She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

3:16  Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

3:17  Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

3:18  She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

3:19  By wisdom the Lord founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

3:20  By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

3:21  My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

3:22  so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

3:23  Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't stumble.

3:24  When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

3:25  Do not be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

3:26  for the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

3:27  Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

3:28  Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

3:29  Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

3:30  Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

3:31  Do not envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

3:32  For the perverse is an abomination to the Lord, but his friendship is with the upright.

3:33  The Lord's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

3:34  Surely he is scornful to scoffers, but he gives grace to the humble.

3:35  The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.