PART VI.

HEBREW WISDOM.

CHAPTER I.

PROVERBS, xi.-xiii., xv.-xxvii.

SELECTIONS OF PROVERBS.

Solomonic Collection-Collection of Hezekiah-Sayings of the Wise, I.—The Drunkard-Sayings of the Wise, II.-The Sluggard.

Solomonic Collection.

WEALTH profits not in the day of wrath;

But righteousness saves from death.

If the good are rewarded on earth,
Much more the wicked and sinner.

The Lord made every thing for an end;
Even the wicked for a day of evil.

Rich and poor are mixed together;
The Lord is the maker of them all.

Say not, I will pay back evil;

Wait on the Lord, and He will save you.

Who follows righteousness and love,
Finds life, success, and honor.

The good man regards the life of his beast,
But the heart of the wicked is cruel.

The beginnings of strife are a breach in a dam.
Stop quarrelling ere the teeth be shown.

To keep out of strife is honorable ;
But every fool will quarrel.

Dishonest bread is sweet to the taste;
Afterward the mouth is full of gravel.

Bad, bad, says the buyer;

Then he goes out and boasts of it.

He that is careless in his work

Is own brother to the destroyer.

Better he that is lowly and tills for himself,
Than he that is grand and has no bread.

Who curses his father or mother,
His lamp is put out in darkness.

A father's chastening makes a wise son;
But a scorner will not hear reproof.

Folly is innate in a child;

The rod will drive it out of him.

House and goods are inherited;
But a wife is a gift from the Lord.

Collection of Hezekiah.

Who keeps the fig-tree eats its fruit;
Who guards his master gets honor.

Do not thrust yourself upon a king,
Nor stand in the place of the great.

It is better to be told, Come up hither,

Than to be set down in the presence of a prince.