RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

25 The desire of the lazy kills him; for his hands refuse to
labor.
26 He covets with greed all the day long: but the tzadik
gives and spares not.
27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how
much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears and
obeys speaks emet.
29 A wicked man hardens his face: but as for the upright,
he is established in his derech.
30 There is no chochmah, or binah, or counsel that can
stand against vuvh.
31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle: but true
safety is of vuvh.
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A tov name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
2 The rich and poor meet together: 4006 vuvh is the Maker
of them all.
3 A clever man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but
the simple pass on, and are punished.
4 By humility and the fear of vuvh are riches, and honor,
and chayim.
5 Thorns and traps are in the derech of the perverted: he
that guards his being shall be far from them.
6 Train up a child in the derech he should go: and when
he is old, he will not depart from it. 4007
7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is eved to
the lender.
8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of
his anger perishes.
9 He that has a tov generous eye shall be blessed; for he
gives of his lechem to the poor.
10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yes,
strife and reproach shall cease. 4008
11 He that loves pureness of lev, whose speech is clean,
the melech shall be his chaver.
12 The eyes of vuvh preserve da’at, and He overthrows
the words of the transgressor.
13 The lazy man says, There is a lion outside, I shall be
slain in the streets.
14 The mouth of strange women are a deep pit: he that is
denounced by vuvh shall fall in it.
15 Foolishness resides in the lev of a child; but the rod of
correction shall drive it far from him.
16 He that oppresses the poor to increase his own riches,
and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.
17 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise,
and apply your lev to my da’at.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if you guard them inside you;
they shall all be ready on your lips.
19 That your trust may be in vuvh, I have caused you to
know these things today, even to you.
20 Have not I written to you excellent things in counsel
and da’at,
21 That I might make you know the certainty of the
words of emet; that you might answer with words of emet
to them that are sent to you?
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress
the afflicted in the gate:
23 For vuvh will plead their cause, and plunder the being
of those that plundered them.
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24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a
furious man you shall not go:
25 Lest you learn his halachot, and get yourself trapped.
26 Be not one of them that shakes hands, or of those that
are guarantors for debts.
27 If you have nothing to pay, why should they take away
your bed from under you?
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which your ahvot
have set. 4009
29 Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall
stand before melechim; he shall not stand before the
obscure.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently
what is before you:
2 And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to
appetite.
3 Do not desire his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.
4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own chochmah.
5 Will you set your eyes upon that which is nothing? For
riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as
an eagle towards the shamayim.
6 Eat not the lechem of him that has an evil eye, 4010
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neither desire his food delicacies:
7 For as he thinks in his lev, so is he: Eat and drink, he
says to you; but his lev is not with you.
8 The piece which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and
lose your sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the
chochmah of your words.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the
fields of the fatherless:
11 For their Redeemer is mighty; He shall plead their
cause with you.
12 Apply your lev to discipline, and your ears to the
words of da’at.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you
correct him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 You shall correct him with the rod, and shall deliver
his being from Sheol.
15 My son, if your lev is wise, my lev shall gilah, even I.
16 Yes, my mind shall gilah, when your lips speak right
things.
17 Let not your lev be jealous of sinners: but be in the
fear of vuvh all day long.
18 For surely there is an end to all things; and your
expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your lev in the
derech.
20 Be not among heavy drinkers; among gluttonous eaters
of meat:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to
poverty: and slumber shall clothe a man with rags.
22 Listen to your abba that brought you forth and do not
despise your eema when she is old.
23 Buy the emet, and sell it not; also chochmah, and
discipline, and binah.
24 The abba of the tzadik shall greatly gilah: and he that
brings forth a wise child shall have simcha from him.
25 Your abba and your eema shall be in simcha, and she
that bore you shall gilah.
26 My son, give me your lev, and let your eyes observe
my halachot.