The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs by Anonymous


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23:21. Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club
together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

23:22. Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy
mother when she is old.

23:23. Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and
understanding.

23:24. The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a
wise son, shall have joy in him.

23:25. Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that
bore thee.

23:26. My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

23:27. For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow
pit.

23:28. She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall
see unwary, she will kill.

23:29. Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who
falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of
eyes?

23:30. Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off
their cups.

23:31. Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof
shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,

23:32. But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad
poison like a basilisk.

23:33. Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter
perverse things.

23:34. And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as
a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.

23:35. And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible
of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine
again?

Proverbs Chapter 24

24:1. Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:

24:2. Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak
deceits.

24:3. By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be
strengthened.

24:4. By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious
and most beautiful wealth.

24:5. A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.

24:6. Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety
where there are many counsels.

24:7. Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his
mouth.

24:8. He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool.

24:9. The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination
of men.

24:10. If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy
strength shall be diminished.

24:11. Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to
death, forbear not to deliver.

24:12. If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the
heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul,
and he shall render to a man according to his works.

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