1<\/sup>THROUGH poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Be the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt find a strong foundation.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that practise her.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sine for them that work iniquities.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be continually among men that think.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Is the quarrels of the proud is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so also is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare: because his soul is wounded.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation:<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off:<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>I have hated many things, but not like him, and the Lord will hate him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a snare for another, shall perish in it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and he shall not know from whence it cometh to him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion shall lie in wait for him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them.<\/span> <\/p>\n