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Proverbs 24

The Message Bible MSG

1 Don't envy bad people; don't even want to be around them.

2 All they think about is causing a disturbance; all they talk about is making trouble.

3 It takes wisdom to build a house, and understanding to set it on a firm foundation;

4 It takes knowledge to furnish its rooms with fine furniture and beautiful draperies.

5 It's better to be wise than strong; intelligence outranks muscle any day.

6 Strategic planning is the key to warfare; to win, you need a lot of good counsel.

7 Wise conversation is way over the head of fools; in a serious discussion they haven't a clue.

8 The person who's always cooking up some evil soon gets a reputation as prince of rogues.

9 Fools incubate sin; cynics desecrate beauty. Rescue the Perishing

10 If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place.

11 Rescue the perishing; don't hesitate to step in and help.

12 If you say, "Hey, that's none of my business," will that get you off the hook? Someone is watching you closely, you know - Someone not impressed with weak excuses.

13 Eat honey, dear child - it's good for you - and delicacies that melt in your mouth.

14 Likewise knowledge, and wisdom for your soul - Get that and your future's secured, your hope is on solid rock.

15 Don't interfere with good people's lives; don't try to get the best of them.

16 No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don't stay down long; Soon they're up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces.

17 Don't laugh when your enemy falls; don't crow over his collapse.

18 God might see, and become very provoked, and then take pity on his plight.

19 Don't bother your head with braggarts or wish you could succeed like the wicked.

20 Those people have no future at all; they're headed down a dead-end street.

21 Fear God, dear child - respect your leaders; don't be defiant or mutinous.

22 Without warning your life can turn upside-down, and who knows how or when it might happen?

23 It's wrong, very wrong, to go along with injustice.

24 Whoever whitewashes the wicked gets a black mark in the history books,

25 But whoever exposes the wicked will be thanked and rewarded.

26 An honest answer is like a warm hug.

27 First plant your fields; then build your barn.

28 Don't talk about your neighbors behind their backs - no slander or gossip, please.

29 Don't say to anyone, "I'll get back at you for what you did to me. I'll make you pay for what you did!"

30 One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a lout;

31 They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down.

32 I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened:

33 "A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy - do you know what comes next?

34 Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, with poverty as your permanent houseguest!"

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 ne aemuleris viros malos nec desideres esse cum eis

2 quia rapinas meditatur mens eorum et fraudes labia eorum loquuntur

3 sapientia aedificabitur domus et prudentia roborabitur

4 in doctrina replebuntur cellaria universa substantia pretiosa et pulcherrima

5 vir sapiens et fortis est et vir doctus robustus et validus

6 quia cum dispositione initur bellum et erit salus ubi multa consilia sunt

7 excelsa stulto sapientia in porta non aperiet os suum

8 qui cogitat malefacere stultus vocabitur

9 cogitatio stulti peccatum est et abominatio hominum detractor

10 si desperaveris lassus in die angustiae inminuetur fortitudo tua

11 erue eos qui ducuntur ad mortem et qui trahuntur ad interitum liberare ne cesses

12 si dixeris vires non suppetunt qui inspector est cordis ipse intellegit et servatorem animae tuae nihil fallit reddetque homini iuxta opera sua

13 comede fili mi mel quia bonum est et favum dulcissimum gutturi tuo

14 sic et doctrina sapientiae animae tuae quam cum inveneris habebis in novissimis et spes tua non peribit

15 ne insidieris et quaeras impietatem in domo iusti neque vastes requiem eius

16 septies enim cadet iustus et resurget impii autem corruent in malum

17 cum ceciderit inimicus tuus ne gaudeas et in ruina eius ne exultet cor tuum

18 ne forte videat Dominus et displiceat ei et auferat ab eo iram suam

19 ne contendas cum pessimis nec aemuleris impios

20 quoniam non habent futurorum spem mali et lucerna impiorum extinguetur

21 time Dominum fili mi et regem et cum detractoribus non commiscearis

22 quoniam repente consurget perditio eorum et ruinam utriusque quis novit

23 haec quoque sapientibus cognoscere personam in iudicio non est bonum

24 qui dicit impio iustus es maledicent ei populi et detestabuntur eum tribus

25 qui arguunt laudabuntur et super ipsos veniet benedictio

26 labia deosculabitur qui recta verba respondet

27 praepara foris opus tuum et diligenter exerce agrum tuum ut postea aedifices domum tuam

28 ne sis testis frustra contra proximum tuum nec lactes quemquam labiis tuis

29 ne dicas quomodo fecit mihi sic faciam ei reddam unicuique secundum opus suum

30 per agrum hominis pigri transivi et per vineam viri stulti

31 et ecce totum repleverant urticae operuerant superficiem eius spinae et maceria lapidum destructa erat

32 quod cum vidissem posui in corde meo et exemplo didici disciplinam

33 parum inquam dormies modicum dormitabis pauxillum manus conseres ut quiescas

34 et veniet quasi cursor egestas tua et mendicitas quasi vir armatus