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Description: Genesis 20:16
NET Translation: To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given 1,000 pieces of silver to your ‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”
DARBY Translation: And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of silver; behold, let that be to thee a covering of the eyes, in respect of all that are with thee, and with all; and she was reProved.
KJV Translation: And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with all [other]: thus she was reProved.
Keywords: Well
Description: Genesis 21:25
NET Translation: But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
DARBY Translation: And Abraham reProved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
KJV Translation: And Abraham reProved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Description: Genesis 24:25
NET Translation: We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”
DARBY Translation: And she said to him, There is straw, and also much Provender with us; also room to lodge.
KJV Translation: She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and Provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Description: Genesis 24:32
NET Translation: So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.
DARBY Translation: And the man came into the house; and he ungirded the camels, and gave the camels straw and Provender, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men who were with him.
KJV Translation: And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and Provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that [were] with him.
Description: Genesis 42:15
NET Translation: You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
DARBY Translation: By this ye shall be put to the proof: as Pharaoh lives, ye shall not go forth hence, unless your youngest brother come hither!
KJV Translation: Hereby ye shall be Proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
Description: Genesis 42:16
NET Translation: One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
DARBY Translation: Send one of you, that he may fetch your brother, but ye shall be imprisoned, and your words shall be put to the proof, whether the truth is in you; and if not, as Pharaoh lives, ye are spies.
KJV Translation: Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be Proved, whether [there be any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.
Description: Genesis 42:27
NET Translation: When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.
DARBY Translation: And one of them opened his sack to give his ass food in the inn, and saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
KJV Translation: And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass Provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack's mouth.
Description: Genesis 43:24
NET Translation: The servant in charge brought the men into Joseph’s house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. Then he gave food to their donkeys.
DARBY Translation: And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses food.
KJV Translation: And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave [them] water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses Provender.
Keywords: Tree, Waters, Sweet, Ordinance
Description: Exodus 15:25
NET Translation: He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.
DARBY Translation: And he cried to Jehovah; and Jehovah shewed him wood, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance; and there he tested them.
KJV Translation: And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he Proved them,
Keywords: Bread, Heaven
Description: Exodus 16:4
NET Translation: Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?
DARBY Translation: Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may Prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
KJV Translation: Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may Prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Description: Exodus 20:20
NET Translation: Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”
DARBY Translation: And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to Prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.
KJV Translation: And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to Prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Keywords: Hate
Description: Leviticus 19:17
NET Translation: You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reProve your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.
DARBY Translation: Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt earnestly rebuke thy neighbour, lest thou bear sin on account of him.
KJV Translation: Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Description: Numbers 21:27
NET Translation: That is why those who speak in Proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established!
DARBY Translation: Therefore the poets say, Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be built and established.
KJV Translation: Wherefore they that speak in Proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
Keywords: Forty, Years
Description: Deuteronomy 8:2
NET Translation: Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
DARBY Translation: And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to Prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.
KJV Translation: And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to Prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Description: Deuteronomy 8:16
NET Translation: fed you in the wilderness with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
DARBY Translation: who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might Prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
KJV Translation: Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might Prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Description: Deuteronomy 13:3
NET Translation: You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him with all your mind and being.
DARBY Translation: thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God Proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
KJV Translation: Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God Proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Description: Deuteronomy 19:18
NET Translation: The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should Prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,
DARBY Translation: and the judges shall make thorough inquiry; and if the witness be a false witness, and he have testified falsely against his brother,
KJV Translation: And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother;
Description: Deuteronomy 28:37
NET Translation: You will become an occasion of horror, a Proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.
DARBY Translation: And thou shalt become an astonishment, a Proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee.
KJV Translation: And thou shalt become an astonishment, a Proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Description: Deuteronomy 33:8
NET Translation: Of Levi he said: “Your Thummim and Urim belong to your godly one, whose authority you challenged at Massah, and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah.
DARBY Translation: And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy godly one, Whom thou didst Prove at Massah, With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
KJV Translation: And of Levi he said, [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim [be] with thy holy one, whom thou didst Prove at Massah, [and with] whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
Verse Intro: Moses' Blessing of Levi
Description: Judges 2:22
NET Translation: in order to test Israel. I want to see whether or not the people will carefully walk in the path marked out by the Lord, as their ancestors were careful to do.”
DARBY Translation: that through them I may Prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.
KJV Translation: That through them I may Prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.
Description: Judges 3:1
NET Translation: These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel—he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.
DARBY Translation: And these are the nations that Jehovah left, to Prove Israel by them, all that had not known all the wars of Canaan;
KJV Translation: Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to Prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Description: Judges 3:4
NET Translation: They were left to test Israel, so the Lord would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.
DARBY Translation: And they were to Prove Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commandments of Jehovah, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
KJV Translation: And they were to Prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Description: Judges 6:39
NET Translation: Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.”
DARBY Translation: And Gideon said to God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once! Let me Prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it, I pray thee, be dry upon the fleece only, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
KJV Translation: And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me Prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
Description: Judges 19:19
NET Translation: We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”
DARBY Translation: And we have both straw and Provender for our asses; and I have bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man with thy servants: there is no lack of anything.
KJV Translation: Yet there is both straw and Provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is] no want of any thing.
Description: Judges 19:21
NET Translation: So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. They washed their feet and had a meal.
DARBY Translation: And he brought him into his house, and gave the asses Provender; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
KJV Translation: So he brought him into his house, and gave Provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
Keywords: Saul
Description: 1 Samuel 10:12
NET Translation: A man who was from there replied, “And who is their father?” Therefore this became a Proverb: “Is even Saul among the prophets?”
DARBY Translation: And a man of that place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a Proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
KJV Translation: And one of the same place answered and said, But who [is] their father? Therefore it became a Proverb, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?
Keywords: David, Sword
Description: 1 Samuel 17:39
NET Translation: David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. David said to Saul, “I can’t walk in these things, for I’m not used to them.” So David removed them.
DARBY Translation: And David girded his sword upon his dress, and endeavoured to go; for he had not yet tried [it]. And David said to Saul, I cannot go in these; for I have never tried [them]. And David put them off him.
KJV Translation: And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not Proved [it]. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not Proved [them]. And David put them off him.
Keywords: Hand
Description: 1 Samuel 24:13
NET Translation: It’s like the old Proverb says: ‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.
DARBY Translation: As saith the Proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; but my hand shall not be upon thee.
KJV Translation: As saith the Proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Keywords: Judah, King, Master, Saul
Description: 2 Samuel 2:7
NET Translation: Now be courageous and Prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.”
DARBY Translation: And now let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
KJV Translation: Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
Keywords: Goodness
Description: 2 Samuel 7:28
NET Translation: Now, O Sovereign Lord, you are the true God. May your words Prove to be true! You have made this good promise to your servant.
DARBY Translation: And now, Lord Jehovah, thou art that God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant;
KJV Translation: And now, O Lord GOD, thou [art] that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
Keywords: Man
Description: 2 Samuel 22:26
NET Translation: You Prove to be loyal to one who is faithful; you Prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent.
DARBY Translation: With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; With the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;
KJV Translation: With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
Keywords: Pure
Description: 2 Samuel 22:27
NET Translation: You Prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you Prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.
DARBY Translation: With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
KJV Translation: With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
Keywords: Hough
Description: 2 Samuel 23:5
NET Translation: My dynasty is apProved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.
DARBY Translation: Although my house be not so before God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.
KJV Translation: Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow.
Description: 1 Kings 4:32
NET Translation: He composed 3,000 Proverbs and 1,005 songs.
DARBY Translation: And he spoke three thousand Proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
KJV Translation: And he spake three thousand Proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
Keywords: Israel
Description: 1 Kings 9:7
NET Translation: then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.
DARBY Translation: then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a Proverb and a by word among all peoples;
KJV Translation: Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a Proverb and a byword among all people:
Keywords: Fame, Name, Prove, Sheba, Solomon
Description: 1 Kings 10:1
NET Translation: When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions.
DARBY Translation: And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon in connection with the name of Jehovah, and came to Prove him with enigmas.
KJV Translation: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to Prove him with hard questions.
Keywords: Children, David, God, Statutes
Description: 1 Kings 11:33
NET Translation: I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I apProve and obeying my rules and regulations, as Solomon’s father David did.
DARBY Translation: because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my sight, and my statutes and mine ordinances, as David his father.
KJV Translation: Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right in mine eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as [did] David his father.
Keywords: Build, David, Israel, Servant, Statutes
Description: 1 Kings 11:38
NET Translation: You must obey all I command you to do, follow my instructions, do what I apProve, and keep my rules and commandments, as my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; I will give you Israel.
DARBY Translation: And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my sight, in keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with thee, and build thee a lasting house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
KJV Translation: And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
Keywords: Kingdom, Servant
Description: 1 Kings 14:8
NET Translation: I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I apProve.
DARBY Translation: and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do only that which is right in my sight;
KJV Translation: And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in mine eyes;
Keywords: David, Save
Description: 1 Kings 15:5
NET Translation: He did this because David had done what he apProved and had not disregarded any of his commandments his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.
DARBY Translation: because David did that which was right in the sight of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Urijah the Hittite.
KJV Translation: Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
Keywords: Asa, David
Description: 1 Kings 15:11
NET Translation: Asa did what the Lord apProved as his ancestor David had done.
DARBY Translation: And Asa did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, as David his father.
KJV Translation: And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, as [did] David his father.
Keywords: Ass, Elijah, God, Prophet, Time
Description: 1 Kings 18:36
NET Translation: When it was time for the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and prayed: “O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
DARBY Translation: And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering up of the oblation, that Elijah the prophet drew near, and said, Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things by thy word.
KJV Translation: And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou [art] God in Israel, and [that] I [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these things at thy word.
Keywords: Chariot, Fight, Horse, Riot
Description: 1 Kings 20:25
NET Translation: Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He apProved their plan and did as they advised.
DARBY Translation: and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them on the plateau: shall we not be stronger than they? And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.
KJV Translation: And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, [and] surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
Keywords: Asa, High Places, Incense
Description: 1 Kings 22:43
NET Translation: He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord apProved.
DARBY Translation: And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah. Only, the high places were not removed: the people offered and burned incense still on the high places.
KJV Translation: And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
Keywords: Jehoash, Priest
Description: 2 Kings 12:2
NET Translation: Jehoash did what the Lord apProved all his days when Jehoiada the priest taught him.
DARBY Translation: And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
KJV Translation: And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Keywords: David
Description: 2 Kings 14:3
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, but not like David his ancestor had done. He followed the example of his father Joash.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
Keywords: Amaziah
Description: 2 Kings 15:3
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, just as his father Amaziah had done.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
Keywords: Uzziah
Description: 2 Kings 15:34
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, just as his father Uzziah had done.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
Keywords: David
Description: 2 Kings 18:3
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, just as his ancestor David had done.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
Keywords: Assyria, Ear, God, King, Master, Prove, Remnant, Reproach, ReProve, Syria
Description: 2 Kings 19:4
NET Translation: Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”
DARBY Translation: It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.
KJV Translation: It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reProve the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that are left.
Keywords: David, Hand
Description: 2 Kings 22:2
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
Keywords: Abroad, Congregation, David
Description: 1 Chronicles 13:2
NET Translation: David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God apProves, let’s spread the word to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, so they may join us.
DARBY Translation: And David said to all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good to you, and it be of Jehovah our God, let us send abroad to our brethren everywhere, that are left in all the lands of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;
KJV Translation: And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If [it seem] good unto you, and [that it be] of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, [that are] left in all the land of Israel, and with them [also] to the priests and Levites [which are] in their cities [and] suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
Keywords: Man
Description: 1 Chronicles 16:21
NET Translation: He let no one oppress them; he disciplined kings for their sake,
DARBY Translation: He suffered no man to oppress them, And reProved kings for their sakes,
KJV Translation: He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reProved kings for their sakes,
Keywords: Sanctified
Description: 2 Chronicles 7:20
NET Translation: then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.
DARBY Translation: then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a Proverb and a byword among all peoples.
KJV Translation: Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a Proverb and a byword among all nations.
Keywords: Fame, Gold, Precious, Prove, Sheba, Solomon
Description: 2 Chronicles 9:1
NET Translation: When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a great display of pomp, bringing with her camels carrying spices, a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.
DARBY Translation: And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and came to Jerusalem to Prove Solomon with enigmas; with a very great train, and camels that bore spices and gold in great abundance, and precious stones; and she came to Solomon, and spoke with him of all that was in her heart.
KJV Translation: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
Keywords: Asa
Description: 2 Chronicles 14:2
NET Translation: (14:1) Asa did what the Lord his God desired and apProved.
DARBY Translation: And Asa did what was good and right in the sight of Jehovah his God;
KJV Translation: And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
Keywords: Ear, Fear, King
Description: 2 Chronicles 19:7
NET Translation: Respect the Lord and make careful decisions, for the Lord our God disapProves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.”
DARBY Translation: And now, let the terror of Jehovah be upon you; be careful what ye do, for there is no iniquity with Jehovah, nor respect of persons, nor taking of presents.
KJV Translation: Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
Keywords: Asa
Description: 2 Chronicles 20:32
NET Translation: He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord apProved.
DARBY Translation: And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.
Description: 2 Chronicles 24:2
NET Translation: Joash did what the Lord apProved throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.
DARBY Translation: And Joash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
KJV Translation: And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
Description: 2 Chronicles 25:2
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, but not with wholehearted devotion.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, yet not with a perfect heart.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
Keywords: Amaziah
Description: 2 Chronicles 26:4
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, just as his father Amaziah had done.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
Keywords: Temple, Uzziah
Description: 2 Chronicles 27:2
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, just as his father Uzziah had done. (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) Yet the people were still sinning.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still acted corruptly.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
Keywords: David
Description: 2 Chronicles 29:2
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved, just as his ancestor David had done.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
Keywords: David
Description: 2 Chronicles 34:2
NET Translation: He did what the Lord apProved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.
Keywords: Banquet, Haman, King, Man
Description: Esther 5:8
NET Translation: If I have found favor in the king’s sight and if the king is inclined to grant my request and apProve my petition, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them. At that time I will do as the king wishes.”
DARBY Translation: If I have found grace in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow according to the king's word.
KJV Translation: If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
Description: Job 6:25
NET Translation: How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof Prove?
DARBY Translation: How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reProve?
KJV Translation: How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reProve?
Keywords: Prove, ReProve
Description: Job 6:26
NET Translation: Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
DARBY Translation: Do ye imagine to reProve words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
KJV Translation: Do ye imagine to reProve words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
Keywords: Condemn, Prove
Description: Job 9:20
NET Translation: Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me, although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
DARBY Translation: If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would Prove me perverse.
KJV Translation: If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also Prove me perverse.
Description: Job 11:13
NET Translation: “As for you, if you Prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,
DARBY Translation: If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
KJV Translation: If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Keywords: Prove, ReProve
Description: Job 13:10
NET Translation: He would certainly rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
DARBY Translation: He will certainly reProve you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
KJV Translation: He will surely reProve you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Description: Job 13:12
NET Translation: Your maxims are Proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
DARBY Translation: Your memorable sayings are Proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
KJV Translation: Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Keywords: Time
Description: Job 17:6
NET Translation: He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
DARBY Translation: And he hath made me a Proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
KJV Translation: He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Description: Job 19:5
NET Translation: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
DARBY Translation: If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and Prove against me my reproach,
KJV Translation: If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Keywords: Ear, Fear, Prove, ReProve
Description: Job 22:4
NET Translation: Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?
DARBY Translation: Will he reason with thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment?
KJV Translation: Will he reProve thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Keywords: Speech
Description: Job 24:25
NET Translation: “If this is not so, who can Prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
DARBY Translation: If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
KJV Translation: And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Description: Job 40:2
NET Translation: “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
DARBY Translation: Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reProveth God, let him answer it.
KJV Translation: Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reProveth God, let him answer it.
Keywords: Evil, God
Description: Psalms 5:4
NET Translation: Certainly you are not a God who apProves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.
DARBY Translation: For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.
KJV Translation: For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Keywords: Soul, Wicked
Description: Psalms 11:5
NET Translation: The Lord apProves of the godly, but he hates the wicked and those who love to do violence.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.
KJV Translation: The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Keywords: Halt
Description: Psalms 17:3
NET Translation: You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.
DARBY Translation: Thou hast Proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.
KJV Translation: Thou hast Proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.
Keywords: Man
Description: Psalms 18:25
NET Translation: You Prove to be loyal to one who is faithful; you Prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent.
DARBY Translation: With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;
KJV Translation: With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Keywords: Pure
Description: Psalms 18:26
NET Translation: You Prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you Prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.
DARBY Translation: With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
KJV Translation: With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
Keywords: Covenant, Mercy, Ruth, Truth
Description: Psalms 25:10
NET Translation: The Lord always Proves faithful and reliable to those who follow the demands of his covenant.
DARBY Translation: All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
KJV Translation: All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Keywords: Examine, Prove, Reins
Description: Psalms 26:2
NET Translation: Examine me, O Lord, and test me. Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives.
DARBY Translation: Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:
KJV Translation: Examine me, O LORD, and Prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Keywords: Prove
Description: Psalms 49:13
NET Translation: This is the destiny of fools, and of those who apProve of their philosophy. (Selah)
DARBY Translation: This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.
KJV Translation: This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity apProve their sayings. Selah.
Keywords: Prove, ReProve
Description: Psalms 50:8
NET Translation: I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.
DARBY Translation: I will not reProve thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;
KJV Translation: I will not reProve thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
Keywords: Prove, ReProve, Test
Description: Psalms 50:21
NET Translation: When you did these things, I was silent, so you thought I was exactly like you. But now I will condemn you and state my case against you.
DARBY Translation: These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reProve thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
KJV Translation: These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reProve thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Keywords: Silver
Description: Psalms 66:10
NET Translation: For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.
DARBY Translation: For thou, O God, hast Proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
KJV Translation: For thou, O God, hast Proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Keywords: Sackcloth
Description: Psalms 69:11
NET Translation: I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.
DARBY Translation: And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a Proverb to them.
KJV Translation: I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a Proverb to them.
Keywords: Secret
Description: Psalms 81:7
NET Translation: In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)
DARBY Translation: Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I Proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
KJV Translation: Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I Proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Description: Psalms 95:9
NET Translation: where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
DARBY Translation: When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
KJV Translation: When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
Keywords: Man
Description: Psalms 105:14
NET Translation: He let no one oppress them; he disciplined kings for their sake,
DARBY Translation: He suffered no man to oppress them, and reProved kings for their sakes,
KJV Translation: He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reProved kings for their sakes;
Keywords: Time
Description: Psalms 105:19
NET Translation: until the time when his prediction came true. The Lord’s word Proved him right.
DARBY Translation: Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.
KJV Translation: Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
Description: Psalms 107:27
NET Translation: They swayed and staggered like drunks, and all their skill Proved ineffective.
DARBY Translation: They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:
KJV Translation: They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Keywords: Search
Description: Psalms 139:23
NET Translation: Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts. Test me, and know my concerns.
DARBY Translation: Search me, O God, and know my heart; Prove me, and know my thoughts;
KJV Translation: Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Keywords: Mite, Prove, ReProve, Righteous
Description: Psalms 141:5
NET Translation: May the godly strike me in love and correct me. May my head not refuse choice oil. Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.
DARBY Translation: Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reProve me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.
KJV Translation: Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reProve me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities.
Keywords: King, Solomon, Son
Description: Proverbs 1:1
NET Translation: The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
DARBY Translation: Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
KJV Translation: The Proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 1:2
NET Translation: To learn wisdom and moral instruction, to discern wise counsel.
DARBY Translation: to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
KJV Translation: To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Keywords: Instruction
Description: Proverbs 1:3
NET Translation: To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity.
DARBY Translation: to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
KJV Translation: To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Keywords: Knowledge, Man
Description: Proverbs 1:4
NET Translation: To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, a discerning plan to the young person.
DARBY Translation: to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
KJV Translation: To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Keywords: Man, Wise
Description: Proverbs 1:5
NET Translation: (Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
DARBY Translation: He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
KJV Translation: A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Keywords: Ark
Description: Proverbs 1:6
NET Translation: To discern the meaning of a Proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles. Introduction to the Theme of the Book
DARBY Translation: to understand a Proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
KJV Translation: To understand a Proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Keywords: Beginning, Ear, Fear, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 1:7
NET Translation: Fearing the Lord is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.
DARBY Translation: The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
KJV Translation: The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Keywords: Ear, Instruction, Law
Description: Proverbs 1:8
NET Translation: Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
DARBY Translation: Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
KJV Translation: My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Keywords: Chains, Grace
Description: Proverbs 1:9
NET Translation: For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
DARBY Translation: for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
KJV Translation: For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Description: Proverbs 1:10
NET Translation: My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
DARBY Translation: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
KJV Translation: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Keywords: Wait
Description: Proverbs 1:11
NET Translation: If they say, “Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
DARBY Translation: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
KJV Translation: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Keywords: Live
Description: Proverbs 1:12
NET Translation: We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
DARBY Translation: let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
KJV Translation: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Keywords: Houses, Precious
Description: Proverbs 1:13
NET Translation: We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.
DARBY Translation: we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
KJV Translation: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Keywords: Lot
Description: Proverbs 1:14
NET Translation: Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”
DARBY Translation: cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
KJV Translation: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Keywords: Rain
Description: Proverbs 1:15
NET Translation: My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
DARBY Translation: my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
KJV Translation: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Keywords: Feet
Description: Proverbs 1:16
NET Translation: for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.
DARBY Translation: for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
KJV Translation: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Description: Proverbs 1:17
NET Translation: Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
DARBY Translation: For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
KJV Translation: Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Keywords: Wait
Description: Proverbs 1:18
NET Translation: but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
DARBY Translation: And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
KJV Translation: And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
Keywords: Life
Description: Proverbs 1:19
NET Translation: Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
DARBY Translation: So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
KJV Translation: So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 1:20
NET Translation: Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;
DARBY Translation: Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
KJV Translation: Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Description: Proverbs 1:21
NET Translation: at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:
DARBY Translation: she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
KJV Translation: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
Keywords: Delight, Hate, Light, Love
Description: Proverbs 1:22
NET Translation: “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
DARBY Translation: How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
KJV Translation: How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Keywords: Spirit
Description: Proverbs 1:23
NET Translation: You should respond to my rebuke. Then I would pour out my thoughts to you; I would make my words known to you.
DARBY Translation: Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
KJV Translation: Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 1:24
NET Translation: However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention,
DARBY Translation: Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
KJV Translation: Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Description: Proverbs 1:25
NET Translation: and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,
DARBY Translation: and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
KJV Translation: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Keywords: Ear, Fear
Description: Proverbs 1:26
NET Translation: so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,
DARBY Translation: I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
KJV Translation: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Keywords: Destruction, Distress, Ear, Fear
Description: Proverbs 1:27
NET Translation: when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.
DARBY Translation: when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
KJV Translation: When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Keywords: Seek
Description: Proverbs 1:28
NET Translation: Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
DARBY Translation: then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
KJV Translation: Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Keywords: Ear, Fear
Description: Proverbs 1:29
NET Translation: Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,
DARBY Translation: Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
KJV Translation: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Description: Proverbs 1:30
NET Translation: they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.
DARBY Translation: they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
KJV Translation: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Keywords: Fruit
Description: Proverbs 1:31
NET Translation: Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
DARBY Translation: therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
KJV Translation: Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Description: Proverbs 1:32
NET Translation: For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
DARBY Translation: For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
KJV Translation: For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Keywords: Ear, Fear
Description: Proverbs 1:33
NET Translation: But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.”
DARBY Translation: But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.
KJV Translation: But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Keywords: Commandments
Description: Proverbs 2:1
NET Translation: My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself,
DARBY Translation: My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
KJV Translation: My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Keywords: Art, Ear, Heart
Description: Proverbs 2:2
NET Translation: by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,
DARBY Translation: so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom [and] thou apply thy heart to understanding;
KJV Translation: So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
Keywords: Test
Description: Proverbs 2:3
NET Translation: indeed, if you call out for discernment—shout loudly for understanding—
DARBY Translation: yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding;
KJV Translation: Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Description: Proverbs 2:4
NET Translation: if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
DARBY Translation: if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:
KJV Translation: If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;
Keywords: Ear, Fear, Halt, Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 2:5
NET Translation: then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.
DARBY Translation: then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
KJV Translation: Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Keywords: Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 2:6
NET Translation: For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
DARBY Translation: For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.
KJV Translation: For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
Keywords: Buckler, Sound, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 2:7
NET Translation: He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
DARBY Translation: He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [he] is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
KJV Translation: He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Description: Proverbs 2:8
NET Translation: to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.
DARBY Translation: guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of his godly ones.
KJV Translation: He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Keywords: Halt
Description: Proverbs 2:9
NET Translation: Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity—every good way.
DARBY Translation: Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path.
KJV Translation: Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
Keywords: Knowledge, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 2:10
NET Translation: For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
DARBY Translation: When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,
KJV Translation: When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Keywords: Discretion
Description: Proverbs 2:11
NET Translation: Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
DARBY Translation: discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee:
KJV Translation: Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Keywords: Deliver, Evil, Man
Description: Proverbs 2:12
NET Translation: to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
DARBY Translation: To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;
KJV Translation: To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
Description: Proverbs 2:13
NET Translation: who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
DARBY Translation: [from those] who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
KJV Translation: Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Keywords: Delight, Light, Rejoice
Description: Proverbs 2:14
NET Translation: who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
DARBY Translation: who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of evil;
KJV Translation: Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Description: Proverbs 2:15
NET Translation: whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
DARBY Translation: whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
KJV Translation: Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
Keywords: Anger, Deliver, Stranger
Description: Proverbs 2:16
NET Translation: to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;
DARBY Translation: To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;
KJV Translation: To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
Keywords: Covenant
Description: Proverbs 2:17
NET Translation: who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
DARBY Translation: who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
KJV Translation: Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Description: Proverbs 2:18
NET Translation: For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.
DARBY Translation: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;
KJV Translation: For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Description: Proverbs 2:19
NET Translation: None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
DARBY Translation: none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
KJV Translation: None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Description: Proverbs 2:20
NET Translation: So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
DARBY Translation: that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, and keep the paths of the righteous.
KJV Translation: That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.
Description: Proverbs 2:21
NET Translation: For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
DARBY Translation: For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
KJV Translation: For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 2:22
NET Translation: but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
DARBY Translation: but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.
KJV Translation: But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Keywords: Art, Forget, Heart
Description: Proverbs 3:1
NET Translation: My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
DARBY Translation: My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;
KJV Translation: My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Description: Proverbs 3:2
NET Translation: for they will provide a long and full life, and well-being for you.
DARBY Translation: for length of days, and years of life, and peace shall they add to thee.
KJV Translation: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Keywords: Mercy, Ruth, Table, Truth
Description: Proverbs 3:3
NET Translation: Do not let mercy and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
DARBY Translation: Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
KJV Translation: Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Keywords: God, Halt
Description: Proverbs 3:4
NET Translation: Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.
DARBY Translation: and thou shalt find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
KJV Translation: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Keywords: Trust
Description: Proverbs 3:5
NET Translation: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.
DARBY Translation: Confide in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own intelligence;
KJV Translation: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Keywords: Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 3:6
NET Translation: Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.
DARBY Translation: in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths.
KJV Translation: In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Keywords: Art, Ear, Fear, Wise
Description: Proverbs 3:7
NET Translation: Do not be wise in your own estimation; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
DARBY Translation: Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:
KJV Translation: Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Keywords: Arrow
Description: Proverbs 3:8
NET Translation: This will bring healing to your body, and refreshment to your inner self.
DARBY Translation: it shall be health for thy navel, and moisture for thy bones.
KJV Translation: It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Keywords: Firstfruits
Description: Proverbs 3:9
NET Translation: Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the firstfruits of all your crops;
DARBY Translation: Honour Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
KJV Translation: Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Description: Proverbs 3:10
NET Translation: then your barns will be filled completely, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
DARBY Translation: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.
KJV Translation: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Description: Proverbs 3:11
NET Translation: My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.
DARBY Translation: My son, despise not the instruction of Jehovah, neither be weary of his chastisement;
KJV Translation: My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Keywords: Son
Description: Proverbs 3:12
NET Translation: For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.
DARBY Translation: for whom Jehovah loveth he chasteneth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
KJV Translation: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.
Keywords: Happy, Man
Description: Proverbs 3:13
NET Translation: Blessed is the one who has found wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.
DARBY Translation: Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
KJV Translation: Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding.
Keywords: Better
Description: Proverbs 3:14
NET Translation: For her benefit is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than gold.
DARBY Translation: For the gain thereof is better than the gain of silver, and her revenue than fine gold.
KJV Translation: For the merchandise of it [is] better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Keywords: Precious
Description: Proverbs 3:15
NET Translation: She is more precious than rubies, and none of the things you desire can compare with her.
DARBY Translation: She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not equal unto her.
KJV Translation: She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Keywords: Hand, Riches
Description: Proverbs 3:16
NET Translation: Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
DARBY Translation: Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand riches and honour.
KJV Translation: Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honour.
Description: Proverbs 3:17
NET Translation: Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
DARBY Translation: Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
KJV Translation: Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.
Keywords: Happy, Life, Tree
Description: Proverbs 3:18
NET Translation: She is like a tree of life to those who grasp onto her, and everyone who takes hold of her will be blessed.
DARBY Translation: She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is he that retaineth her.
KJV Translation: She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 3:19
NET Translation: By wisdom the Lord laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens.
KJV Translation: The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Keywords: Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 3:20
NET Translation: By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, so that the clouds drip down dew.
DARBY Translation: By his knowledge the deeps were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
KJV Translation: By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Keywords: Art, Sound, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 3:21
NET Translation: My child, do not let them escape from your sight; safeguard sound wisdom and discretion.
DARBY Translation: My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion:
KJV Translation: My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Keywords: Grace, Life
Description: Proverbs 3:22
NET Translation: So they will become life for your soul, and grace around your neck.
DARBY Translation: so shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace unto thy neck.
KJV Translation: So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Keywords: Halt
Description: Proverbs 3:23
NET Translation: Then you will walk on your way with security, and you will not stumble.
DARBY Translation: Then shalt thou walk in thy way securely, and thy foot shall not stumble;
KJV Translation: Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Keywords: Halt, Sleep
Description: Proverbs 3:24
NET Translation: When you lie down you will not be filled with fear; when you lie down your sleep will be pleasant.
DARBY Translation: when thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid, but thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet.
KJV Translation: When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Description: Proverbs 3:25
NET Translation: Do not be afraid of sudden disaster, or when destruction overtakes the wicked;
DARBY Translation: Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the destruction of the wicked, when it cometh;
KJV Translation: Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
Description: Proverbs 3:26
NET Translation: for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.
DARBY Translation: for Jehovah shall be thy confidence, and he will keep thy foot from being taken.
KJV Translation: For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Keywords: Hand, Power
Description: Proverbs 3:27
NET Translation: Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.
DARBY Translation: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
KJV Translation: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].
Description: Proverbs 3:28
NET Translation: Do not say to your neighbor, “Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.
DARBY Translation: Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee.
KJV Translation: Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
Keywords: Evil
Description: Proverbs 3:29
NET Translation: Do not plot evil against your neighbor when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.
DARBY Translation: Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
KJV Translation: Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 3:30
NET Translation: Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.
DARBY Translation: Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
KJV Translation: Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Keywords: Envy
Description: Proverbs 3:31
NET Translation: Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose any of his ways;
DARBY Translation: Envy not the man of violence, and choose none of his ways.
KJV Translation: Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Keywords: Nation, Secret
Description: Proverbs 3:32
NET Translation: for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.
DARBY Translation: For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; but his secret is with the upright.
KJV Translation: For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret [is] with the righteous.
Description: Proverbs 3:33
NET Translation: The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
DARBY Translation: The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; but he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.
KJV Translation: The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Keywords: Grace
Description: Proverbs 3:34
NET Translation: With arrogant scoffers he is scornful, yet he shows favor to the humble.
DARBY Translation: He indeed scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
KJV Translation: Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Keywords: Shame, Wise
Description: Proverbs 3:35
NET Translation: The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.
DARBY Translation: The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of the foolish.
KJV Translation: The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Keywords: Instruction
Description: Proverbs 4:1
NET Translation: Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.
DARBY Translation: Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
KJV Translation: Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Description: Proverbs 4:2
NET Translation: Because I hereby give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.
DARBY Translation: for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
KJV Translation: For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Description: Proverbs 4:3
NET Translation: When I was a son to my father, a tender, only child before my mother,
DARBY Translation: For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
KJV Translation: For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 4:4
NET Translation: he taught me, and he said to me: “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.
DARBY Translation: And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.
KJV Translation: He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Keywords: Forget
Description: Proverbs 4:5
NET Translation: Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.
DARBY Translation: Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
KJV Translation: Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Keywords: Love
Description: Proverbs 4:6
NET Translation: Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.
DARBY Translation: Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee.
KJV Translation: Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 4:7
NET Translation: Wisdom is supreme—so acquire wisdom, and whatever you acquire, acquire understanding!
DARBY Translation: The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
KJV Translation: Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Keywords: Exalt, Mote
Description: Proverbs 4:8
NET Translation: Esteem her highly and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
DARBY Translation: Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
KJV Translation: Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Keywords: Deliver, Glory, Head
Description: Proverbs 4:9
NET Translation: She will place a fair garland on your head; she will bestow a beautiful crown on you.”
DARBY Translation: She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee.
KJV Translation: She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Keywords: Life, Years
Description: Proverbs 4:10
NET Translation: Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.
DARBY Translation: Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.
KJV Translation: Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Description: Proverbs 4:11
NET Translation: I hereby guide you in the way of wisdom and I lead you in upright paths.
DARBY Translation: I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.
KJV Translation: I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Keywords: Halt
Description: Proverbs 4:12
NET Translation: When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.
DARBY Translation: When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
KJV Translation: When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Description: Proverbs 4:13
NET Translation: Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.
DARBY Translation: Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.
KJV Translation: Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.
Keywords: Evil
Description: Proverbs 4:14
NET Translation: Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.
DARBY Translation: Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]:
KJV Translation: Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].
Keywords: Ass
Description: Proverbs 4:15
NET Translation: Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
DARBY Translation: avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
KJV Translation: Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Keywords: Sleep
Description: Proverbs 4:16
NET Translation: For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
DARBY Translation: For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
KJV Translation: For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
Keywords: Bread, Wine
Description: Proverbs 4:17
NET Translation: Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
DARBY Translation: For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
KJV Translation: For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Description: Proverbs 4:18
NET Translation: But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
DARBY Translation: But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.
KJV Translation: But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 4:19
NET Translation: The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
DARBY Translation: The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
KJV Translation: The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Keywords: Ear
Description: Proverbs 4:20
NET Translation: My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.
DARBY Translation: My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
KJV Translation: My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Keywords: Art
Description: Proverbs 4:21
NET Translation: Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;
DARBY Translation: Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
KJV Translation: Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Keywords: Life
Description: Proverbs 4:22
NET Translation: for they are life to those who find them and healing to one’s entire body.
DARBY Translation: For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
KJV Translation: For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 4:23
NET Translation: Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
DARBY Translation: Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
KJV Translation: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
Description: Proverbs 4:24
NET Translation: Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.
DARBY Translation: Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
KJV Translation: Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Description: Proverbs 4:25
NET Translation: Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.
DARBY Translation: Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
KJV Translation: Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Description: Proverbs 4:26
NET Translation: Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.
DARBY Translation: Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.
KJV Translation: Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Keywords: Hand
Description: Proverbs 4:27
NET Translation: Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.
DARBY Translation: Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.
KJV Translation: Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Keywords: Bow, Ear
Description: Proverbs 5:1
NET Translation: My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
DARBY Translation: My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
KJV Translation: My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
Description: Proverbs 5:2
NET Translation: in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
DARBY Translation: that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
KJV Translation: That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 5:3
NET Translation: For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
DARBY Translation: For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
KJV Translation: For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
Description: Proverbs 5:4
NET Translation: but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
DARBY Translation: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
KJV Translation: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Keywords: Feet
Description: Proverbs 5:5
NET Translation: Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
DARBY Translation: Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
KJV Translation: Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Description: Proverbs 5:6
NET Translation: Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.
DARBY Translation: Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
KJV Translation: Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
Keywords: Art, Ear
Description: Proverbs 5:7
NET Translation: So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.
DARBY Translation: And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
KJV Translation: Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Description: Proverbs 5:8
NET Translation: Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
DARBY Translation: Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
KJV Translation: Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Keywords: Years
Description: Proverbs 5:9
NET Translation: lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
DARBY Translation: lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
KJV Translation: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Description: Proverbs 5:10
NET Translation: lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
DARBY Translation: lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
KJV Translation: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
Keywords: Flesh
Description: Proverbs 5:11
NET Translation: And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
DARBY Translation: and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
KJV Translation: And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 5:12
NET Translation: And you will say, “How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
DARBY Translation: and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
KJV Translation: And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Keywords: Ear
Description: Proverbs 5:13
NET Translation: For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.
DARBY Translation: and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
KJV Translation: And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Keywords: Congregation, Evil
Description: Proverbs 5:14
NET Translation: I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”
DARBY Translation: I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
KJV Translation: I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Description: Proverbs 5:15
NET Translation: Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
DARBY Translation: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
KJV Translation: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Description: Proverbs 5:16
NET Translation: Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
DARBY Translation: Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
KJV Translation: Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
Description: Proverbs 5:17
NET Translation: Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
DARBY Translation: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
KJV Translation: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Keywords: Fountain, Rejoice, Wife
Description: Proverbs 5:18
NET Translation: May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth—
DARBY Translation: Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
KJV Translation: Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Keywords: Hind
Description: Proverbs 5:19
NET Translation: a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
DARBY Translation: As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
KJV Translation: [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Description: Proverbs 5:20
NET Translation: But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
DARBY Translation: And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
KJV Translation: And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 5:21
NET Translation: For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord’s eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person’s paths.
DARBY Translation: For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
KJV Translation: For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 5:22
NET Translation: The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
DARBY Translation: His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
KJV Translation: His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Keywords: Greatness
Description: Proverbs 5:23
NET Translation: He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.
DARBY Translation: He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
KJV Translation: He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Keywords: Hand
Description: Proverbs 6:1
NET Translation: My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger,
DARBY Translation: My son, if thou hast become surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand for a stranger,
KJV Translation: My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Keywords: Art
Description: Proverbs 6:2
NET Translation: if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,
DARBY Translation: thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
KJV Translation: Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Keywords: Art, Deliver, Hand
Description: Proverbs 6:3
NET Translation: then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: Go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.
DARBY Translation: Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou hast come into the hand of thy friend: go, humble thyself, and be urgent with thy friend.
KJV Translation: Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Keywords: Sleep
Description: Proverbs 6:4
NET Translation: Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
DARBY Translation: Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
KJV Translation: Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Keywords: Bird, Deliver, Hand, Roe
Description: Proverbs 6:5
NET Translation: Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
DARBY Translation: deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
KJV Translation: Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Description: Proverbs 6:6
NET Translation: Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe her ways and be wise!
DARBY Translation: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:
KJV Translation: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Description: Proverbs 6:7
NET Translation: It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,
DARBY Translation: which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
KJV Translation: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Keywords: Food, Meat
Description: Proverbs 6:8
NET Translation: yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.
DARBY Translation: provideth her bread in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.
KJV Translation: Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.
Description: Proverbs 6:9
NET Translation: How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
DARBY Translation: How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
KJV Translation: How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Description: Proverbs 6:10
NET Translation: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
DARBY Translation: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
KJV Translation: [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Keywords: Poverty
Description: Proverbs 6:11
NET Translation: and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
DARBY Translation: So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
KJV Translation: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 6:12
NET Translation: A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;
DARBY Translation: A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
KJV Translation: A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Description: Proverbs 6:13
NET Translation: he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;
DARBY Translation: he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
KJV Translation: He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Description: Proverbs 6:14
NET Translation: he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.
DARBY Translation: deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.
KJV Translation: Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Keywords: Calamity
Description: Proverbs 6:15
NET Translation: Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
DARBY Translation: Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly: in a moment shall he be broken, and without remedy.
KJV Translation: Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Keywords: Nation
Description: Proverbs 6:16
NET Translation: There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him:
DARBY Translation: These six [things] doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
KJV Translation: These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
Keywords: Lying
Description: Proverbs 6:17
NET Translation: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
DARBY Translation: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
KJV Translation: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Keywords: Art, Feet, Heart, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 6:18
NET Translation: a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,
DARBY Translation: a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;
KJV Translation: An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Keywords: False, Witness
Description: Proverbs 6:19
NET Translation: a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.
DARBY Translation: a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.
KJV Translation: A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Keywords: Law
Description: Proverbs 6:20
NET Translation: My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
DARBY Translation: My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
KJV Translation: My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Description: Proverbs 6:21
NET Translation: Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
DARBY Translation: bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:
KJV Translation: Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
Description: Proverbs 6:22
NET Translation: When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.
DARBY Translation: when thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
KJV Translation: When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Keywords: Instruction, Law
Description: Proverbs 6:23
NET Translation: For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
DARBY Translation: For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
KJV Translation: For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
Keywords: Evil, Tongue
Description: Proverbs 6:24
NET Translation: by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
DARBY Translation: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
KJV Translation: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Keywords: Beauty
Description: Proverbs 6:25
NET Translation: Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
DARBY Translation: Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
KJV Translation: Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Keywords: Man, Precious
Description: Proverbs 6:26
NET Translation: for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
DARBY Translation: for by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.
KJV Translation: For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Keywords: Fire, Man
Description: Proverbs 6:27
NET Translation: Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?
DARBY Translation: Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his garments not be burned?
KJV Translation: Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Keywords: Feet
Description: Proverbs 6:28
NET Translation: Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
DARBY Translation: Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
KJV Translation: Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Description: Proverbs 6:29
NET Translation: So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
DARBY Translation: So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
KJV Translation: So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Keywords: Soul
Description: Proverbs 6:30
NET Translation: People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.
DARBY Translation: They do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:
KJV Translation: [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Keywords: Restore
Description: Proverbs 6:31
NET Translation: Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.
DARBY Translation: and if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
KJV Translation: But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Keywords: Adultery, Man
Description: Proverbs 6:32
NET Translation: A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.
DARBY Translation: Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
KJV Translation: [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Keywords: Reproach
Description: Proverbs 6:33
NET Translation: He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away;
DARBY Translation: A wound and contempt shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
KJV Translation: A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Description: Proverbs 6:34
NET Translation: for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.
DARBY Translation: For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance;
KJV Translation: For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Keywords: Hough, Rest
Description: Proverbs 6:35
NET Translation: He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.
DARBY Translation: he will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content though thou multipliest [thy] gifts.
KJV Translation: He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Keywords: Commandments
Description: Proverbs 7:1
NET Translation: My child, devote yourself to my words and store up my commands inside yourself.
DARBY Translation: My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
KJV Translation: My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keywords: Apple, Law
Description: Proverbs 7:2
NET Translation: Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
DARBY Translation: Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
KJV Translation: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Keywords: Table
Description: Proverbs 7:3
NET Translation: Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.
DARBY Translation: Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
KJV Translation: Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Description: Proverbs 7:4
NET Translation: Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative,
DARBY Translation: Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
KJV Translation: Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
Keywords: Anger, Stranger
Description: Proverbs 7:5
NET Translation: so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
DARBY Translation: that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
KJV Translation: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
Description: Proverbs 7:6
NET Translation: For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out
DARBY Translation: For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
KJV Translation: For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 7:7
NET Translation: and I saw among the naive—I discerned among the youths—a young man who lacked sense.
DARBY Translation: and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
KJV Translation: And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Keywords: Ear, Sing
Description: Proverbs 7:8
NET Translation: He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house
DARBY Translation: passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
KJV Translation: Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Keywords: Ark
Description: Proverbs 7:9
NET Translation: in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
DARBY Translation: in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
KJV Translation: In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Keywords: Man, Subtil, Tire
Description: Proverbs 7:10
NET Translation: Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
DARBY Translation: And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
KJV Translation: And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Keywords: Feet
Description: Proverbs 7:11
NET Translation: (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home—
DARBY Translation: She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
KJV Translation: (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Keywords: Wait
Description: Proverbs 7:12
NET Translation: at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)
DARBY Translation: now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner.
KJV Translation: Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Keywords: Impudent
Description: Proverbs 7:13
NET Translation: So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,
DARBY Translation: And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
KJV Translation: So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him,
Keywords: Offerings, Peace, Rings
Description: Proverbs 7:14
NET Translation: “I have meat from my peace offerings at home; today I have fulfilled my vows!
DARBY Translation: I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
KJV Translation: [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Keywords: Meet, Seek
Description: Proverbs 7:15
NET Translation: That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you!
DARBY Translation: therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
KJV Translation: Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Keywords: Bed, Rings
Description: Proverbs 7:16
NET Translation: I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt.
DARBY Translation: I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
KJV Translation: I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.
Keywords: Bed
Description: Proverbs 7:17
NET Translation: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
DARBY Translation: I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
KJV Translation: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Keywords: Love, Solace
Description: Proverbs 7:18
NET Translation: Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures.
DARBY Translation: Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
KJV Translation: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 7:19
NET Translation: For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.
DARBY Translation: For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
KJV Translation: For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Keywords: Money
Description: Proverbs 7:20
NET Translation: He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month.”
DARBY Translation: he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
KJV Translation: He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.
Keywords: Fair, Speech
Description: Proverbs 7:21
NET Translation: She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.
DARBY Translation: With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
KJV Translation: With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Keywords: Correction, Fool, Ox
Description: Proverbs 7:22
NET Translation: Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare
DARBY Translation: He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
KJV Translation: He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Keywords: Art, Bird
Description: Proverbs 7:23
NET Translation: till an arrow pierces his liver—like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
DARBY Translation: till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
KJV Translation: Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
Description: Proverbs 7:24
NET Translation: So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.
DARBY Translation: And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
KJV Translation: Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 7:25
NET Translation: Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways—do not wander into her pathways;
DARBY Translation: Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
KJV Translation: Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Description: Proverbs 7:26
NET Translation: for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many.
DARBY Translation: for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
KJV Translation: For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.
Description: Proverbs 7:27
NET Translation: Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
DARBY Translation: Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
KJV Translation: Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 8:1
NET Translation: Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?
DARBY Translation: Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
KJV Translation: Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
Description: Proverbs 8:2
NET Translation: At the top of the prominent places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she has taken her stand;
DARBY Translation: On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.
KJV Translation: She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
Description: Proverbs 8:3
NET Translation: beside the gates opening into the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:
DARBY Translation: Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
KJV Translation: She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
Description: Proverbs 8:4
NET Translation: “To you, O people, I call out, and my voice calls to all mankind.
DARBY Translation: Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:
KJV Translation: Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of man.
Description: Proverbs 8:5
NET Translation: You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!
DARBY Translation: O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
KJV Translation: O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Description: Proverbs 8:6
NET Translation: Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.
DARBY Translation: Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
KJV Translation: Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips [shall be] right things.
Keywords: Nation
Description: Proverbs 8:7
NET Translation: For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.
DARBY Translation: For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
KJV Translation: For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.
Description: Proverbs 8:8
NET Translation: All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing in them twisted or crooked.
DARBY Translation: All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
KJV Translation: All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them.
Description: Proverbs 8:9
NET Translation: All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.
DARBY Translation: They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
KJV Translation: They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Keywords: Choice, Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 8:10
NET Translation: Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
DARBY Translation: Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold:
KJV Translation: Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Keywords: Better, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 8:11
NET Translation: For wisdom is better than rubies, and desirable things cannot be compared to her.
DARBY Translation: for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.
KJV Translation: For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Keywords: Knowledge, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 8:12
NET Translation: “I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
DARBY Translation: I wisdom dwell [with] prudence, and find the knowledge [which cometh] of reflection.
KJV Translation: I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Keywords: Ear, Evil, Fear, Hate
Description: Proverbs 8:13
NET Translation: The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.
DARBY Translation: The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
KJV Translation: The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Keywords: Counsel, Sound
Description: Proverbs 8:14
NET Translation: Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.
DARBY Translation: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
KJV Translation: Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength.
Keywords: Decree
Description: Proverbs 8:15
NET Translation: By me kings reign, and by me potentates decree righteousness;
DARBY Translation: By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;
KJV Translation: By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Description: Proverbs 8:16
NET Translation: by me princes rule, as well as nobles and all righteous judges.
DARBY Translation: by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
KJV Translation: By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
Keywords: Early, Love, Seek
Description: Proverbs 8:17
NET Translation: I will love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
DARBY Translation: I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
KJV Translation: I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Keywords: Riches
Description: Proverbs 8:18
NET Translation: Riches and honor are with me, long-lasting wealth and righteousness.
DARBY Translation: Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
KJV Translation: Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches and righteousness.
Keywords: Better, Choice, Fruit
Description: Proverbs 8:19
NET Translation: My fruit is better than the purest gold, and my harvest is better than choice silver.
DARBY Translation: My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
KJV Translation: My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Description: Proverbs 8:20
NET Translation: I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,
DARBY Translation: I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
KJV Translation: I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Keywords: Love
Description: Proverbs 8:21
NET Translation: that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and that I may fill their treasuries.
DARBY Translation: that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
KJV Translation: That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
Keywords: Beginning
Description: Proverbs 8:22
NET Translation: The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
KJV Translation: The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Keywords: Earth
Description: Proverbs 8:23
NET Translation: From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.
DARBY Translation: I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
KJV Translation: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Description: Proverbs 8:24
NET Translation: When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
DARBY Translation: When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
KJV Translation: When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when [there were] no fountains abounding with water.
Description: Proverbs 8:25
NET Translation: before the mountains were set in place—before the hills—I was born,
DARBY Translation: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
KJV Translation: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Keywords: Art
Description: Proverbs 8:26
NET Translation: before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.
DARBY Translation: while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
KJV Translation: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Keywords: Ass, Compass
Description: Proverbs 8:27
NET Translation: When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
DARBY Translation: When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
KJV Translation: When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Description: Proverbs 8:28
NET Translation: when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,
DARBY Translation: when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;
KJV Translation: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
Keywords: Ass, Sea
Description: Proverbs 8:29
NET Translation: when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
DARBY Translation: when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
KJV Translation: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Keywords: Rejoicing
Description: Proverbs 8:30
NET Translation: then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,
DARBY Translation: then I was by him [his] nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
KJV Translation: Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;
Keywords: Art, Rejoicing, Table
Description: Proverbs 8:31
NET Translation: rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.
DARBY Translation: rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
KJV Translation: Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
Description: Proverbs 8:32
NET Translation: “So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
DARBY Translation: And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
KJV Translation: Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.
Keywords: Ear
Description: Proverbs 8:33
NET Translation: Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.
DARBY Translation: hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
KJV Translation: Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 8:34
NET Translation: Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.
DARBY Translation: Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
KJV Translation: Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Description: Proverbs 8:35
NET Translation: For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the Lord.
DARBY Translation: For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
KJV Translation: For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
Keywords: Hate, Love
Description: Proverbs 8:36
NET Translation: But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death.”
DARBY Translation: but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
KJV Translation: But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 9:1
NET Translation: Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out its seven pillars.
DARBY Translation: Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;
KJV Translation: Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Description: Proverbs 9:2
NET Translation: She has prepared her meat, she has mixed her wine; she also has arranged her table.
DARBY Translation: she hath slaughtered her cattle, she hath mingled her wine, she hath also prepared her table;
KJV Translation: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Description: Proverbs 9:3
NET Translation: She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city.
DARBY Translation: she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,
KJV Translation: She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Description: Proverbs 9:4
NET Translation: “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here.” To those who lack understanding, she has said,
DARBY Translation: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,
KJV Translation: Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Keywords: Wine
Description: Proverbs 9:5
NET Translation: “Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed.
DARBY Translation: Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled.
KJV Translation: Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled.
Description: Proverbs 9:6
NET Translation: Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”
DARBY Translation: Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.
KJV Translation: Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Keywords: Man, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 9:7
NET Translation: Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reProves a wicked person receives abuse.
DARBY Translation: He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reProveth a wicked [man] [getteth] to himself a blot.
KJV Translation: He that reProveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot.
Keywords: Hate, Love, Prove, Rebuke, ReProve, Wise
Description: Proverbs 9:8
NET Translation: Do not reProve a mocker or he will hate you; reProve a wise person and he will love you.
DARBY Translation: ReProve not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reProve a wise [man], and he will love thee.
KJV Translation: ReProve not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Keywords: Wise
Description: Proverbs 9:9
NET Translation: Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.
DARBY Translation: Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.
KJV Translation: Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
Keywords: Beginning, Ear, Fear, Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 9:10
NET Translation: The beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and acknowledging the Holy One is understanding.
DARBY Translation: The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the Holy is intelligence.
KJV Translation: The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.
Keywords: Life, Years
Description: Proverbs 9:11
NET Translation: For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.
DARBY Translation: For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.
KJV Translation: For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Keywords: Bear, Ear, Halt, Wise
Description: Proverbs 9:12
NET Translation: If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you have mocked, you alone must bear it.
DARBY Translation: If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
KJV Translation: If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 9:13
NET Translation: The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.
DARBY Translation: The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.
KJV Translation: A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
Keywords: High Places
Description: Proverbs 9:14
NET Translation: And she has sat down at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
DARBY Translation: And she sitteth at the entry of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
KJV Translation: For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Description: Proverbs 9:15
NET Translation: calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way.
DARBY Translation: to call passers-by who go right on their ways:
KJV Translation: To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Description: Proverbs 9:16
NET Translation: “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding she has said,
DARBY Translation: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. And to him that is void of understanding she saith,
KJV Translation: Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Keywords: Bread, Secret
Description: Proverbs 9:17
NET Translation: “Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!”
DARBY Translation: Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
KJV Translation: Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
Keywords: Dead
Description: Proverbs 9:18
NET Translation: But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.
DARBY Translation: But he knoweth not that the dead are there; [that] her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
KJV Translation: But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
Keywords: Son, Wise
Description: Proverbs 10:1
NET Translation: The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.
DARBY Translation: The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
KJV Translation: The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.
Description: Proverbs 10:2
NET Translation: Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
DARBY Translation: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
KJV Translation: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Keywords: Righteous, Soul, Suffer
Description: Proverbs 10:3
NET Translation: The Lord satisfies the appetite of the righteous, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah suffereth not the soul of the righteous [man] to famish; but he repelleth the craving of the wicked.
KJV Translation: The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Keywords: Hand, Poor
Description: Proverbs 10:4
NET Translation: The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.
DARBY Translation: He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
KJV Translation: He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Keywords: Harvest, Son, Summer, Wise
Description: Proverbs 10:5
NET Translation: The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.
DARBY Translation: He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
KJV Translation: He that gathereth in summer [is] a wise son: [but] he that sleepeth in harvest [is] a son that causeth shame.
Keywords: Head
Description: Proverbs 10:6
NET Translation: Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.
DARBY Translation: Blessings are upon the head of a righteous [man]; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
KJV Translation: Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Keywords: Name, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 10:7
NET Translation: The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot.
DARBY Translation: The memory of the righteous [man] shall be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.
KJV Translation: The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Keywords: Art, Fool, Heart, Wise
Description: Proverbs 10:8
NET Translation: The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.
DARBY Translation: The wise in heart receiveth commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.
KJV Translation: The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Description: Proverbs 10:9
NET Translation: The one who conducts himself in integrity will live securely, but the one who behaves perversely will be found out.
DARBY Translation: He that walketh in integrity walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
KJV Translation: He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Keywords: Eye, Fool
Description: Proverbs 10:10
NET Translation: The one who winks his eye causes trouble, and the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.
DARBY Translation: He that winketh with the eye causeth grief, and a prating fool shall fall.
KJV Translation: He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
Keywords: Man, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 10:11
NET Translation: The speech of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.
DARBY Translation: The mouth of a righteous [man] is a fountain of life; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
KJV Translation: The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Keywords: Hatred, Love
Description: Proverbs 10:12
NET Translation: Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
DARBY Translation: Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.
KJV Translation: Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Keywords: Rod, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 10:13
NET Translation: Wisdom is found in the words of the discerning person, but the one who lacks sense will be disciplined.
DARBY Translation: In the lips of an intelligent [man] wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
KJV Translation: In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Keywords: Ear, Wise
Description: Proverbs 10:14
NET Translation: Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.
DARBY Translation: The wise lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the fool is near destruction.
KJV Translation: Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.
Keywords: Destruction, Poor
Description: Proverbs 10:15
NET Translation: The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.
DARBY Translation: The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
KJV Translation: The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.
Keywords: Fruit, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 10:16
NET Translation: The reward that the righteous receive is life; the recompense that the wicked receive is judgment.
DARBY Translation: The labour of a righteous [man] [tendeth] to life; the revenue of a wicked [man], to sin.
KJV Translation: The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Keywords: Life, Reproof
Description: Proverbs 10:17
NET Translation: The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.
DARBY Translation: Keeping instruction is the path to life; but he that forsaketh reproof goeth astray.
KJV Translation: He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Keywords: Hatred, Lying
Description: Proverbs 10:18
NET Translation: The one who conceals hatred utters lies, and the one who spreads slander is certainly a fool.
DARBY Translation: He that covereth hatred hath lying lips, and he that sendeth forth a slander is a fool.
KJV Translation: He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.
Description: Proverbs 10:19
NET Translation: When words abound, transgression is inevitable, but the one who restrains his words is wise.
DARBY Translation: In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that restraineth his lips doeth wisely.
KJV Translation: In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.
Keywords: Art, Choice, Heart, Tongue, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 10:20
NET Translation: What the righteous say is like the best silver, but what the wicked think is of little value.
DARBY Translation: The tongue of the righteous [man] is [as] choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.
KJV Translation: The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.
Keywords: Righteous
Description: Proverbs 10:21
NET Translation: The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.
DARBY Translation: The lips of a righteous [man] feed many; but fools die for want of understanding.
KJV Translation: The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Keywords: Sing
Description: Proverbs 10:22
NET Translation: The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.
DARBY Translation: The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow to it.
KJV Translation: The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Keywords: Fool, Man, Port
Description: Proverbs 10:23
NET Translation: Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.
DARBY Translation: It is as sport to a foolish [man] to do wickedness; but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
KJV Translation: [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Keywords: Ear, Fear, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 10:24
NET Translation: What the wicked fears will come on him; what the righteous desire will be granted.
DARBY Translation: The fear of a wicked [man], it shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
KJV Translation: The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Keywords: Righteous, Whirlwind, Wicked, Wind
Description: Proverbs 10:25
NET Translation: When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.
DARBY Translation: As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no [more]; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
KJV Translation: As the whirlwind passeth, so [is] the wicked no [more]: but the righteous [is] an everlasting foundation.
Description: Proverbs 10:26
NET Translation: Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
DARBY Translation: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
KJV Translation: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so [is] the sluggard to them that send him.
Keywords: Ear, Fear, Wicked, Years
Description: Proverbs 10:27
NET Translation: Fearing the Lord prolongs life, but the life span of the wicked will be shortened.
DARBY Translation: The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
KJV Translation: The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Keywords: Hope, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 10:28
NET Translation: The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked perishes.
DARBY Translation: The hope of the righteous is joy; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
KJV Translation: The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Keywords: Destruction, Strength
Description: Proverbs 10:29
NET Translation: The way of the Lord is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.
DARBY Translation: The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect [man], but destruction to the workers of iniquity.
KJV Translation: The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 10:30
NET Translation: The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.
DARBY Translation: The righteous [man] shall never be moved; but the wicked shall not inhabit the land.
KJV Translation: The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Keywords: Tongue
Description: Proverbs 10:31
NET Translation: The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.
DARBY Translation: The mouth of a righteous [man] putteth forth wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
KJV Translation: The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 10:32
NET Translation: The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, but the speech of the wicked is perverse.
DARBY Translation: The lips of a righteous [man] know what is acceptable; but the mouth of the wicked is frowardness.
KJV Translation: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness.
Keywords: False, Lance, Nation
Description: Proverbs 11:1
NET Translation: The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
DARBY Translation: A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
KJV Translation: A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
Keywords: Pride
Description: Proverbs 11:2
NET Translation: After pride came, disgrace followed; but wisdom came with humility.
DARBY Translation: [When] pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
KJV Translation: [When] pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly [is] wisdom.
Keywords: Integrity
Description: Proverbs 11:3
NET Translation: The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
DARBY Translation: The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroyeth them.
KJV Translation: The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Keywords: Riches
Description: Proverbs 11:4
NET Translation: Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
DARBY Translation: Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
KJV Translation: Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:5
NET Translation: The righteousness of the blameless will make their way smooth, but the wicked will fall through their own wickedness.
DARBY Translation: The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
KJV Translation: The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Keywords: Deliver
Description: Proverbs 11:6
NET Translation: The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the treacherous will be ensnared by their own desires.
DARBY Translation: The righteousness of the upright delivereth them; but the treacherous are taken in their own craving.
KJV Translation: The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.
Keywords: Hope, Man, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:7
NET Translation: When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and hope based on power has perished.
DARBY Translation: When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish; and the hope of evil [men] perisheth.
KJV Translation: When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:8
NET Translation: A righteous person was delivered out of trouble, then a wicked person took his place.
DARBY Translation: The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
KJV Translation: The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Keywords: Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 11:9
NET Translation: With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.
DARBY Translation: With his mouth a hypocrite destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge are the righteous delivered.
KJV Translation: An hypocrite with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:10
NET Translation: When the righteous do well, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there is joy.
DARBY Translation: When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
KJV Translation: When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, [there is] shouting.
Keywords: Sing
Description: Proverbs 11:11
NET Translation: A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.
DARBY Translation: By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
KJV Translation: By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Keywords: Man, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 11:12
NET Translation: The one who denounces his neighbor lacks sense, but a discerning person keeps silent.
DARBY Translation: He that despiseth his neighbour is void of heart; but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
KJV Translation: He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Keywords: Spirit
Description: Proverbs 11:13
NET Translation: The one who goes about slandering others reveals secrets, but the one who is trustworthy conceals a matter.
DARBY Translation: He that goeth about talebearing revealeth secrets; but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
KJV Translation: A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
Keywords: Counsel
Description: Proverbs 11:14
NET Translation: When there is no guidance a nation falls, but there is success in the abundance of counselors.
DARBY Translation: Where no advice is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
KJV Translation: Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.
Keywords: Anger, Art, Ship, Stranger
Description: Proverbs 11:15
NET Translation: The one who has put up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands is secure.
DARBY Translation: It goeth ill with him that is surety for another; but he that hateth suretyship is secure.
KJV Translation: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it]: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 11:16
NET Translation: A generous woman gains honor, and ruthless men seize wealth.
DARBY Translation: A gracious woman retaineth honour; and the violent retain riches.
KJV Translation: A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong [men] retain riches.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 11:17
NET Translation: A kind person benefits himself, but a cruel person brings himself trouble.
DARBY Translation: The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; but the cruel troubleth his own flesh.
KJV Translation: The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:18
NET Translation: The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.
DARBY Translation: The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.
KJV Translation: The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.
Keywords: Evil
Description: Proverbs 11:19
NET Translation: True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
DARBY Translation: As righteousness [tendeth] to life, so he that pursueth evil [doeth it] to his own death.
KJV Translation: As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Nation
Description: Proverbs 11:20
NET Translation: The Lord abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.
DARBY Translation: The perverse in heart are abomination to Jehovah; but they that are perfect in [their] way are his delight.
KJV Translation: They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight.
Keywords: Hand, Righteous, Seed, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:21
NET Translation: Be assured that the evil person will not be unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous have escaped harm.
DARBY Translation: Hand for hand! an evil [man] shall not be held innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
KJV Translation: [Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Keywords: Fair, Gold, Man
Description: Proverbs 11:22
NET Translation: Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.
DARBY Translation: A fair woman who is without discretion, is [as] a gold ring in a swine's snout.
KJV Translation: [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:23
NET Translation: The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
DARBY Translation: The desire of the righteous is only good; the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
KJV Translation: The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.
Description: Proverbs 11:24
NET Translation: One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.
DARBY Translation: There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is right, but [it tendeth] only to want.
KJV Translation: There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.
Keywords: Soul
Description: Proverbs 11:25
NET Translation: A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.
DARBY Translation: The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
KJV Translation: The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Keywords: Head, Sing
Description: Proverbs 11:26
NET Translation: People will curse the one who withholds grain, but they will praise the one who sells it.
DARBY Translation: He that withholdeth corn, the people curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
KJV Translation: He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing [shall be] upon the head of him that selleth [it].
Description: Proverbs 11:27
NET Translation: The one who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but the one who searches for evil—it will come to him.
DARBY Translation: He that is earnest after good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for mischief, it shall come upon him.
KJV Translation: He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
Keywords: Riches, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 11:28
NET Translation: The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
DARBY Translation: He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a leaf.
KJV Translation: He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Keywords: Fool, Servant, Wise
Description: Proverbs 11:29
NET Translation: The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.
DARBY Translation: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
KJV Translation: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.
Keywords: Fruit, Righteous, Tree
Description: Proverbs 11:30
NET Translation: The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.
DARBY Translation: The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and the wise winneth souls.
KJV Translation: The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that winneth souls [is] wise.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 11:31
NET Translation: If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!
DARBY Translation: Behold, the righteous shall be requited on the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner.
KJV Translation: Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Keywords: Instruction, Reproof
Description: Proverbs 12:1
NET Translation: The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid.
DARBY Translation: Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
KJV Translation: Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.
Keywords: Man, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:2
NET Translation: A good person obtains favor from the Lord, but the Lord condemns a person with wicked schemes.
DARBY Translation: A good [man] obtaineth favour of Jehovah; but a man of mischievous devices will he condemn.
KJV Translation: A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Keywords: Man, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 12:3
NET Translation: No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.
DARBY Translation: A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
KJV Translation: A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 12:4
NET Translation: A noble wife is the crown of her husband, but the wife who acts shamefully is like rottenness in his bones.
DARBY Translation: A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
KJV Translation: A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:5
NET Translation: The plans of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
DARBY Translation: The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
KJV Translation: The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.
Keywords: Deliver, Wait, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:6
NET Translation: The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.
DARBY Translation: The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
KJV Translation: The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:7
NET Translation: The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.
DARBY Translation: Overthrow the wicked, and they are no [more]; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
KJV Translation: The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 12:8
NET Translation: A person will be praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one with a bewildered mind will be despised.
DARBY Translation: A man is commended according to his wisdom; but he that is of a perverted heart shall be despised.
KJV Translation: A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Keywords: Better
Description: Proverbs 12:9
NET Translation: Better is a person of humble standing who works for himself, than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.
DARBY Translation: Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
KJV Translation: [He that is] despised, and hath a servant, [is] better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Keywords: Life, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:10
NET Translation: A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.
DARBY Translation: A righteous man is concerned for the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
KJV Translation: A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.
Description: Proverbs 12:11
NET Translation: The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks sense.
DARBY Translation: He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless is void of understanding.
KJV Translation: He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.
Keywords: Evil, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:12
NET Translation: The wicked person has desired the stronghold of the wicked, but the root of the righteous will yield fruit.
DARBY Translation: The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]; but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
KJV Translation: The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
Keywords: Transgression, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:13
NET Translation: The evil person is ensnared by the transgression of his speech, but the righteous person escapes out of trouble.
DARBY Translation: In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare; but a righteous [man] shall go forth out of trouble.
KJV Translation: The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Keywords: Fruit, Man
Description: Proverbs 12:14
NET Translation: A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.
DARBY Translation: A man is satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth; and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
KJV Translation: A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Keywords: Counsel, Fool
Description: Proverbs 12:15
NET Translation: The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.
DARBY Translation: The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
KJV Translation: The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.
Keywords: Wrath
Description: Proverbs 12:16
NET Translation: A fool’s annoyance is known at once, but the prudent conceals dishonor.
DARBY Translation: The vexation of the fool is presently known; but a prudent [man] covereth shame.
KJV Translation: A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame.
Keywords: False, Ruth, Truth, Witness
Description: Proverbs 12:17
NET Translation: The faithful witness tells what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.
DARBY Translation: He that uttereth truth sheweth forth righteousness; but a false witness deceit.
KJV Translation: [He that] speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Keywords: Tongue, Wise
Description: Proverbs 12:18
NET Translation: Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
DARBY Translation: There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
KJV Translation: There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
Keywords: Lying, Ruth, Tongue, Truth
Description: Proverbs 12:19
NET Translation: The one who tells the truth will endure forever, but the one who lies will last only for a moment.
DARBY Translation: The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
KJV Translation: The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment.
Keywords: Art, Deceit, Heart, Peace
Description: Proverbs 12:20
NET Translation: Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.
DARBY Translation: Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
KJV Translation: Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.
Keywords: Evil, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:21
NET Translation: No harm will be directed at the righteous, but the wicked are filled with calamity.
DARBY Translation: There shall no evil happen to a righteous [man]; but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
KJV Translation: There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Keywords: Deal, Lying, Nation
Description: Proverbs 12:22
NET Translation: The Lord abhors a person who lies, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.
DARBY Translation: Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; but they that deal truly are his delight.
KJV Translation: Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 12:23
NET Translation: The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people proclaim folly.
DARBY Translation: A prudent man concealeth knowledge; but the heart of the foolish proclaimeth folly.
KJV Translation: A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
Keywords: Bear, Ear, Hand
Description: Proverbs 12:24
NET Translation: The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will be put to forced labor.
DARBY Translation: The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful [hand] shall be under tribute.
KJV Translation: The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 12:25
NET Translation: Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs him down, but an encouraging word brings him joy.
DARBY Translation: Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.
KJV Translation: Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 12:26
NET Translation: The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
DARBY Translation: The righteous guideth his neighbour; but the way of the wicked misleadeth them.
KJV Translation: The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 12:27
NET Translation: The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.
DARBY Translation: The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.
KJV Translation: The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious.
Description: Proverbs 12:28
NET Translation: In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death.
DARBY Translation: In the path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
KJV Translation: In the way of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the pathway [thereof there is] no death.
Keywords: Son, Wise
Description: Proverbs 13:1
NET Translation: A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.
DARBY Translation: A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction; but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
KJV Translation: A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Keywords: Fruit, Man, Soul
Description: Proverbs 13:2
NET Translation: From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the treacherous desire the fruit of violence.
DARBY Translation: A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; but the soul of the treacherous, violence.
KJV Translation: A man shall eat good by the fruit of [his] mouth: but the soul of the transgressors [shall eat] violence.
Description: Proverbs 13:3
NET Translation: The one who guards his words guards his life; whoever is talkative will come to ruin.
DARBY Translation: He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.
KJV Translation: He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Keywords: Soul
Description: Proverbs 13:4
NET Translation: The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.
DARBY Translation: A sluggard's soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
KJV Translation: The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 13:5
NET Translation: The righteous person will reject anything false, but the wicked person will act in shameful disgrace.
DARBY Translation: A righteous [man] hateth lying; but the wicked maketh himself odious and cometh to shame.
KJV Translation: A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Description: Proverbs 13:6
NET Translation: Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
DARBY Translation: Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
KJV Translation: Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Description: Proverbs 13:7
NET Translation: There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.
DARBY Translation: There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth.
KJV Translation: There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches.
Keywords: Life, Poor, Ransom
Description: Proverbs 13:8
NET Translation: The ransom of a person’s life is his wealth, thus the poor person has never heard a threat.
DARBY Translation: The ransom of a man's life is his riches; but the indigent heareth not rebuke.
KJV Translation: The ransom of a man's life [are] his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Keywords: Lamp, Light, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 13:9
NET Translation: The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.
DARBY Translation: The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
KJV Translation: The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Keywords: Pride
Description: Proverbs 13:10
NET Translation: With pride comes only contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
DARBY Translation: By pride there only cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.
KJV Translation: Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised [is] wisdom.
Keywords: Vanity
Description: Proverbs 13:11
NET Translation: Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.
DARBY Translation: Wealth [gotten] by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase [it].
KJV Translation: Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Hope, Tree
Description: Proverbs 13:12
NET Translation: Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.
DARBY Translation: Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but the desire [that] cometh to pass is a tree of life.
KJV Translation: Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.
Description: Proverbs 13:13
NET Translation: The one who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but whoever esteems direction will be rewarded.
DARBY Translation: Whoso despiseth the word shall be held by it; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
KJV Translation: Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Keywords: Art, Fountain, Law, Wise
Description: Proverbs 13:14
NET Translation: Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
DARBY Translation: The teaching of the wise [man] is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
KJV Translation: The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Description: Proverbs 13:15
NET Translation: Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the treacherous ends in destruction.
DARBY Translation: Good understanding procureth favour; but the way of the treacherous is hard.
KJV Translation: Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors [is] hard.
Keywords: Fool
Description: Proverbs 13:16
NET Translation: Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.
DARBY Translation: Every prudent [man] acteth with knowledge; but the foolish layeth open [his] folly.
KJV Translation: Every prudent [man] dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his] folly.
Keywords: Messenger, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 13:17
NET Translation: An unreliable messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
DARBY Translation: A wicked messenger falleth into evil; but a faithful ambassador is health.
KJV Translation: A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health.
Keywords: Poverty, Reproof, Shame
Description: Proverbs 13:18
NET Translation: The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.
DARBY Translation: Poverty and shame shall be [to] him that refuseth instruction; but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
KJV Translation: Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Keywords: Art, Nation
Description: Proverbs 13:19
NET Translation: A desire fulfilled will be sweet to the soul, but fools abhor turning away from evil.
DARBY Translation: The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; but it is abomination to the foolish to depart from evil.
KJV Translation: The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Keywords: Wise
Description: Proverbs 13:20
NET Translation: The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
DARBY Translation: He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.
KJV Translation: He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Keywords: Evil, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 13:21
NET Translation: Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
DARBY Translation: Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid.
KJV Translation: Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Keywords: Inheritance, Sinner
Description: Proverbs 13:22
NET Translation: A good person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.
DARBY Translation: A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous [man].
KJV Translation: A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.
Keywords: Food
Description: Proverbs 13:23
NET Translation: Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.
DARBY Translation: Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is lost for want of judgment.
KJV Translation: Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment.
Keywords: Rod
Description: Proverbs 13:24
NET Translation: The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.
DARBY Translation: He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
KJV Translation: He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 13:25
NET Translation: The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked will be empty.
DARBY Translation: The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; but the belly of the wicked shall want.
KJV Translation: The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
Keywords: Man, Wise
Description: Proverbs 14:1
NET Translation: Every wise woman has built her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.
DARBY Translation: The wisdom of women buildeth their house; but folly plucketh it down with her hands.
KJV Translation: Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Description: Proverbs 14:2
NET Translation: The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.
DARBY Translation: He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; but he that is perverted in his ways despiseth him.
KJV Translation: He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but [he that is] perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Keywords: Rod, Wise
Description: Proverbs 14:3
NET Translation: In the speech of a fool is a rod for his back, but the words of the wise protect them.
DARBY Translation: In the fool's mouth is a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
KJV Translation: In the mouth of the foolish [is] a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Keywords: Crib, Strength
Description: Proverbs 14:4
NET Translation: Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen.
DARBY Translation: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
KJV Translation: Where no oxen [are], the crib [is] clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox.
Keywords: False, Witness
Description: Proverbs 14:5
NET Translation: A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
DARBY Translation: A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness uttereth lies.
KJV Translation: A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Keywords: Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 14:6
NET Translation: The scorner sought wisdom—there was none, but understanding was easy for a discerning person.
DARBY Translation: A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none [for him]; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent.
KJV Translation: A scorner seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not: but knowledge [is] easy unto him that understandeth.
Description: Proverbs 14:7
NET Translation: Walk abreast with a foolish person, and you do not understand wise counsel.
DARBY Translation: Go from the presence of a foolish man, in whom thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.
KJV Translation: Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 14:8
NET Translation: The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.
DARBY Translation: The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way; but the folly of the foolish is deceit.
KJV Translation: The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.
Keywords: Righteous
Description: Proverbs 14:9
NET Translation: Fools mock at reparation, but among the upright there is favor.
DARBY Translation: Fools make a mock at trespass; but for the upright there is favour.
KJV Translation: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.
Keywords: Anger, Art, Heart, Stranger
Description: Proverbs 14:10
NET Translation: The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.
DARBY Translation: The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
KJV Translation: The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Keywords: Tabernacle, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 14:11
NET Translation: The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
DARBY Translation: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tent of the upright shall flourish.
KJV Translation: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Description: Proverbs 14:12
NET Translation: There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
DARBY Translation: There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
KJV Translation: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 14:13
NET Translation: Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
DARBY Translation: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is sadness.
KJV Translation: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 14:14
NET Translation: The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
DARBY Translation: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.
KJV Translation: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
Description: Proverbs 14:15
NET Translation: A naive person will believe anything, but the shrewd person discerns his steps.
DARBY Translation: The simple believeth every word; but the prudent [man] heedeth his going.
KJV Translation: The simple believeth every word: but the prudent [man] looketh well to his going.
Keywords: Fool, Wise
Description: Proverbs 14:16
NET Translation: A wise person is cautious and turns from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is overconfident.
DARBY Translation: A wise [man] feareth and departeth from evil; but the foolish is overbearing and confident.
KJV Translation: A wise [man] feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Keywords: Man, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 14:17
NET Translation: A person who has a quick temper will do foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes will be hated.
DARBY Translation: He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly, and a man of mischievous devices is hated.
KJV Translation: [He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Description: Proverbs 14:18
NET Translation: The naive have inherited folly, but the shrewd will be crowned with knowledge.
DARBY Translation: The simple inherit folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
KJV Translation: The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Keywords: Bow, Evil, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 14:19
NET Translation: Bad people have bowed before good people, and wicked people have bowed at the gates of someone righteous.
DARBY Translation: The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous [man].
KJV Translation: The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 14:20
NET Translation: A poor person will be disliked even by his neighbors, but those who love the rich are many.
DARBY Translation: He that is poor is hated even of his own neighbour; but the rich hath many friends.
KJV Translation: The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich [hath] many friends.
Keywords: Happy, Mercy
Description: Proverbs 14:21
NET Translation: The one who despises his neighbor sins, but whoever is kind to the needy is blessed.
DARBY Translation: He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth; but he that is gracious to the afflicted, happy is he.
KJV Translation: He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy [is] he.
Keywords: Mercy, Ruth, Truth
Description: Proverbs 14:22
NET Translation: Do not those who devise evil go astray? But those who plan good exhibit faithful covenant love.
DARBY Translation: Do they not err that devise evil? but loving-kindness and truth are for those that devise good.
KJV Translation: Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth [shall be] to them that devise good.
Description: Proverbs 14:23
NET Translation: In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.
DARBY Translation: In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to want.
KJV Translation: In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.
Keywords: Wise
Description: Proverbs 14:24
NET Translation: The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is folly.
DARBY Translation: The crown of the wise is their riches; the folly of the foolish is folly.
KJV Translation: The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly.
Keywords: Witness
Description: Proverbs 14:25
NET Translation: A truthful witness rescues lives, but one who testifies falsely betrays them.
DARBY Translation: A true witness delivereth souls; but deceit uttereth lies.
KJV Translation: A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies.
Keywords: Children, Ear, Fear
Description: Proverbs 14:26
NET Translation: In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and it will be a refuge for his children.
DARBY Translation: In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
KJV Translation: In the fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Keywords: Art, Ear, Fear, Fountain
Description: Proverbs 14:27
NET Translation: The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.
DARBY Translation: The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
KJV Translation: The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Keywords: Destruction
Description: Proverbs 14:28
NET Translation: A king’s glory is the abundance of people, but the lack of subjects is the ruin of a ruler.
DARBY Translation: In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the lack of people is the ruin of a prince.
KJV Translation: In the multitude of people [is] the king's honour: but in the want of people [is] the destruction of the prince.
Keywords: Spirit, Wrath
Description: Proverbs 14:29
NET Translation: Someone with great understanding is slow to anger, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
DARBY Translation: He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
KJV Translation: [He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding: but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Keywords: Art, Envy, Heart, Life, Sound
Description: Proverbs 14:30
NET Translation: A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.
DARBY Translation: A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.
KJV Translation: A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Keywords: Mercy, Poor
Description: Proverbs 14:31
NET Translation: The one who oppresses the poor has insulted his Creator, but whoever honors him shows favor to the needy.
DARBY Translation: He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoureth Him is gracious to the needy.
KJV Translation: He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Keywords: Hope, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 14:32
NET Translation: An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.
DARBY Translation: The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, [even] in his death.
KJV Translation: The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 14:33
NET Translation: Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is not known in the inner parts of fools.
DARBY Translation: Wisdom resteth in the heart of the intelligent [man]; but that which is in the foolish maketh itself known.
KJV Translation: Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] in the midst of fools is made known.
Keywords: Reproach, Sin
Description: Proverbs 14:34
NET Translation: Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
DARBY Translation: Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to peoples.
KJV Translation: Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people.
Keywords: Wise, Wrath
Description: Proverbs 14:35
NET Translation: The king shows favor to a wise servant, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.
DARBY Translation: The king's favour is toward a wise servant; but his wrath is [against] him that causeth shame.
KJV Translation: The king's favour [is] toward a wise servant: but his wrath is [against] him that causeth shame.
Description: Proverbs 15:1
NET Translation: A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
DARBY Translation: A soft answer turneth away fury; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.
KJV Translation: A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Keywords: Knowledge, Tongue, Wise
Description: Proverbs 15:2
NET Translation: The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of the fool spouts out folly.
DARBY Translation: The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of the foolish poureth out folly.
KJV Translation: The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Keywords: Evil
Description: Proverbs 15:3
NET Translation: The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.
DARBY Translation: The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
KJV Translation: The eyes of the LORD [are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Keywords: Tongue, Tree
Description: Proverbs 15:4
NET Translation: Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse speech breaks the spirit.
DARBY Translation: Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
KJV Translation: A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.
Keywords: Fool, Reproof
Description: Proverbs 15:5
NET Translation: A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.
DARBY Translation: A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent.
KJV Translation: A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 15:6
NET Translation: In the house of the righteous is abundant wealth, but the income of the wicked will be ruined.
DARBY Translation: In the house of a righteous [man] is much treasure; but in the revenue of a wicked [man] is disturbance.
KJV Translation: In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Wise
Description: Proverbs 15:7
NET Translation: The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the heart of fools.
DARBY Translation: The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but not so the heart of the foolish.
KJV Translation: The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.
Keywords: Nation, Sacrifice, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 15:8
NET Translation: The Lord abhors the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
DARBY Translation: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
KJV Translation: The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.
Keywords: Nation, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 15:9
NET Translation: The Lord abhors the way of the wicked, but he will love those who pursue righteousness.
DARBY Translation: The way of a wicked [man] is an abomination to Jehovah; but him that pursueth righteousness he loveth.
KJV Translation: The way of the wicked [is] an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Keywords: Correction, Reproof
Description: Proverbs 15:10
NET Translation: Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.
DARBY Translation: Grievous correction is for him that forsaketh the path; he that hateth reproof shall die.
KJV Translation: Correction [is] grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: [and] he that hateth reproof shall die.
Keywords: Children, Destruction, Hell
Description: Proverbs 15:11
NET Translation: Death and Destruction are before the Lord—how much more the hearts of humans!
DARBY Translation: Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah; how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
KJV Translation: Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Description: Proverbs 15:12
NET Translation: The scorner will not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise.
DARBY Translation: A scorner loveth not one that reProveth him; he will not go unto the wise.
KJV Translation: A scorner loveth not one that reProveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 15:13
NET Translation: A joyful heart makes the face cheerful, but by a painful heart the spirit is broken.
DARBY Translation: A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
KJV Translation: A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 15:14
NET Translation: The discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
DARBY Translation: The heart of an intelligent [man] seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish feedeth on folly.
KJV Translation: The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 15:15
NET Translation: All the days of the afflicted are bad, but one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
DARBY Translation: All the days of the afflicted are evil; but a cheerful heart is a continual feast.
KJV Translation: All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.
Keywords: Better, Ear, Fear, Treasure, Trouble
Description: Proverbs 15:16
NET Translation: Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it.
DARBY Translation: Better is little with the fear of Jehovah than great store and disquietude therewith.
KJV Translation: Better [is] little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Keywords: Better, Hatred, Love, Ox
Description: Proverbs 15:17
NET Translation: Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
DARBY Translation: Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.
KJV Translation: Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Keywords: Anger, Man
Description: Proverbs 15:18
NET Translation: A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
DARBY Translation: A furious man stirreth up contention; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
KJV Translation: A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Keywords: Man, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 15:19
NET Translation: The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
DARBY Translation: The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
KJV Translation: The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain.
Keywords: Man, Son, Wise
Description: Proverbs 15:20
NET Translation: A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.
DARBY Translation: A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
KJV Translation: A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Keywords: Joy, Man
Description: Proverbs 15:21
NET Translation: Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.
DARBY Translation: Folly is joy to him that is void of sense; but a man of understanding regulateth his walk.
KJV Translation: Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Keywords: Counsel
Description: Proverbs 15:22
NET Translation: Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established.
DARBY Translation: Without counsel purposes are disappointed; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
KJV Translation: Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Keywords: Joy, Man
Description: Proverbs 15:23
NET Translation: A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time—how good it is!
DARBY Translation: A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word in its season, how good is it!
KJV Translation: A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is it]!
Keywords: Art, Hell, Life
Description: Proverbs 15:24
NET Translation: The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
DARBY Translation: The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
KJV Translation: The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Description: Proverbs 15:25
NET Translation: The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.
KJV Translation: The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Keywords: Nation, Pure, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 15:26
NET Translation: The Lord abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure.
DARBY Translation: The thoughts of the evil [man] are an abomination to Jehovah; but pure words are pleasant.
KJV Translation: The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.
Description: Proverbs 15:27
NET Translation: The one who is greedy for gain troubles his household, but whoever hates bribes will live.
DARBY Translation: He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
KJV Translation: He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Keywords: Art, Evil, Heart, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 15:28
NET Translation: The heart of the righteous considers how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
DARBY Translation: The heart of a righteous [man] studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
KJV Translation: The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
Description: Proverbs 15:29
NET Translation: The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah is far from the wicked; but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
KJV Translation: The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Keywords: Light, Port, Report
Description: Proverbs 15:30
NET Translation: A bright look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the body.
DARBY Translation: That which enlighteneth the eyes rejoiceth the heart; good tidings make the bones fat.
KJV Translation: The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.
Keywords: Ear, Life, Reproof
Description: Proverbs 15:31
NET Translation: The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise.
DARBY Translation: The ear that heareth the reproof of life shall abide among the wise.
KJV Translation: The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
Keywords: Instruction, Reproof
Description: Proverbs 15:32
NET Translation: The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever listens to reproof acquires understanding.
DARBY Translation: He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul; but he that heareth reproof getteth sense.
KJV Translation: He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Keywords: Ear, Fear, Instruction
Description: Proverbs 15:33
NET Translation: The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility.
DARBY Translation: The fear of Jehovah is the discipline of wisdom, and before honour [goeth] humility.
KJV Translation: The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] humility.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 16:1
NET Translation: The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
DARBY Translation: The purposes of the heart are of man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.
KJV Translation: The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, [is] from the LORD.
Keywords: Clean, Man
Description: Proverbs 16:2
NET Translation: All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives.
DARBY Translation: All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Jehovah weigheth the spirits.
KJV Translation: All the ways of a man [are] clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Description: Proverbs 16:3
NET Translation: Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
DARBY Translation: Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.
KJV Translation: Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 16:4
NET Translation: The Lord has worked everything for his own ends—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
KJV Translation: The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Keywords: Art, Hand, Heart, Nation
Description: Proverbs 16:5
NET Translation: The Lord abhors every arrogant person; rest assured that they will not go unpunished.
DARBY Translation: Every proud heart is an abomination to Jehovah: hand for hand, he shall not be held innocent.
KJV Translation: Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Keywords: Art, Ear, Fear, Mercy, Ruth, Truth
Description: Proverbs 16:6
NET Translation: Through loyal love and truth iniquity is appeased; through fearing the Lord one avoids evil.
DARBY Translation: By loving-kindness and truth iniquity is atoned for; and by the fear of Jehovah [men] depart from evil.
KJV Translation: By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil.
Keywords: Enemies, Peace
Description: Proverbs 16:7
NET Translation: When a person’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.
DARBY Translation: When a man's ways please Jehovah, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
KJV Translation: When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Keywords: Better
Description: Proverbs 16:8
NET Translation: Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
DARBY Translation: Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
KJV Translation: Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 16:9
NET Translation: A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps.
DARBY Translation: The heart of man deviseth his way, but Jehovah directeth his steps.
KJV Translation: A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Keywords: Vine
Description: Proverbs 16:10
NET Translation: The divine verdict is in the words of the king, his pronouncements must not act treacherously against justice.
DARBY Translation: An oracle is on the lips of the king: his mouth will not err in judgment.
KJV Translation: A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Keywords: Lance
Description: Proverbs 16:11
NET Translation: Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
DARBY Translation: The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
KJV Translation: A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
Keywords: Nation, Throne
Description: Proverbs 16:12
NET Translation: Doing wickedness is an abomination to kings, because a throne is established in righteousness.
DARBY Translation: It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness.
KJV Translation: [It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Keywords: Delight, Light, Love, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 16:13
NET Translation: The delight of a king is righteous counsel, and he will love the one who speaks uprightly.
DARBY Translation: Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him that speaketh aright.
KJV Translation: Righteous lips [are] the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
Keywords: King, Man, Wise, Wrath
Description: Proverbs 16:14
NET Translation: A king’s wrath is like a messenger of death, but a wise person appeases it.
DARBY Translation: The fury of a king is [as] messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.
KJV Translation: The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Keywords: Cloud, Light
Description: Proverbs 16:15
NET Translation: In the light of the king’s face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds of the spring rain.
DARBY Translation: In the light of the king's countenance is life, and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
KJV Translation: In the light of the king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain.
Keywords: Better, Chosen, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 16:16
NET Translation: How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.
DARBY Translation: How much better is it to get wisdom than fine gold, and the getting of intelligence to be preferred to silver!
KJV Translation: How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Keywords: Art, Highway
Description: Proverbs 16:17
NET Translation: The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.
DARBY Translation: The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that taketh heed to his way keepeth his soul.
KJV Translation: The highway of the upright [is] to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Keywords: Pride, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 16:18
NET Translation: Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
DARBY Translation: Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
KJV Translation: Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Keywords: Better, Oil, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 16:19
NET Translation: It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud.
DARBY Translation: Better is it to be of a humble spirit with the meek, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
KJV Translation: Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Keywords: Happy
Description: Proverbs 16:20
NET Translation: The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.
DARBY Translation: He that giveth heed to the word shall find good; and whoso confideth in Jehovah, happy is he.
KJV Translation: He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy [is] he.
Keywords: Art, Called, Heart, Wise
Description: Proverbs 16:21
NET Translation: The one who is wise in heart is called discerning, and kind speech increases persuasiveness.
DARBY Translation: The wise in heart is called intelligent, and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
KJV Translation: The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Keywords: Instruction, Life, Spring
Description: Proverbs 16:22
NET Translation: Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.
DARBY Translation: Wisdom is a fountain of life for him that hath it; but the instruction of fools is folly.
KJV Translation: Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Wise
Description: Proverbs 16:23
NET Translation: A wise person’s heart makes his speech wise and it adds persuasiveness to his words.
DARBY Translation: The heart of the wise maketh his mouth intelligent, and upon his lips increaseth learning.
KJV Translation: The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
Description: Proverbs 16:24
NET Translation: Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
DARBY Translation: Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.
KJV Translation: Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Description: Proverbs 16:25
NET Translation: There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
DARBY Translation: There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
KJV Translation: There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
Description: Proverbs 16:26
NET Translation: A laborer’s appetite has labored for him, for his hunger has pressed him to work.
DARBY Translation: The appetite of the labourer laboureth for him, for his mouth urgeth him on.
KJV Translation: He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 16:27
NET Translation: A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.
DARBY Translation: A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.
KJV Translation: An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 16:28
NET Translation: A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.
DARBY Translation: A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.
KJV Translation: A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 16:29
NET Translation: A violent person entices his neighbor, and then leads him down a path that is terrible.
DARBY Translation: A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into a way that is not good.
KJV Translation: A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good.
Keywords: Evil
Description: Proverbs 16:30
NET Translation: The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.
DARBY Translation: He that shutteth his eyes, [it is] to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass.
KJV Translation: He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Keywords: Head
Description: Proverbs 16:31
NET Translation: Gray hair is like a crown of glory; it is attained in the path of righteousness.
DARBY Translation: The hoary head is a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.
KJV Translation: The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it be found in the way of righteousness.
Keywords: Anger, Better, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 16:32
NET Translation: Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.
DARBY Translation: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
KJV Translation: [He that is] slow to anger [is] better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Keywords: Lot, Sing
Description: Proverbs 16:33
NET Translation: The dice are thrown into the lap, but their every decision is from the Lord.
DARBY Translation: The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole decision is of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD.
Keywords: Better
Description: Proverbs 17:1
NET Translation: Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
DARBY Translation: Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.
KJV Translation: Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.
Keywords: Art, Inheritance, Rule, Servant, Son, Wise
Description: Proverbs 17:2
NET Translation: A servant who acts wisely will rule over an heir who behaves shamefully, and will share the inheritance along with the relatives.
DARBY Translation: A wise servant shall rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.
KJV Translation: A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Description: Proverbs 17:3
NET Translation: The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the Lord tests hearts.
DARBY Translation: The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.
KJV Translation: The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Keywords: Ear, False, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 17:4
NET Translation: One who acts wickedly pays attention to evil counsel; a liar listens to a malicious tongue.
DARBY Translation: The evil-doer giveth heed to iniquitous lips; the liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
KJV Translation: A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 17:5
NET Translation: The one who mocks the poor has insulted his Creator; whoever rejoices over disaster will not go unpunished.
DARBY Translation: Whoso mocketh a poor [man] reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent.
KJV Translation: Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: [and] he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Keywords: Children, Glory
Description: Proverbs 17:6
NET Translation: Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.
DARBY Translation: Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
KJV Translation: Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.
Keywords: Lying, Speech
Description: Proverbs 17:7
NET Translation: Excessive speech is not becoming for a fool; how much less are lies for a ruler!
DARBY Translation: Excellent speech becometh not a vile [man]; how much less do lying lips a noble!
KJV Translation: Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Keywords: Gift, Precious
Description: Proverbs 17:8
NET Translation: A bribe works like a charm for the one who offers it; in whatever he does he succeeds.
DARBY Translation: A gift is a precious stone in the eyes of the possessor: whithersoever it turneth it prospereth.
KJV Translation: A gift [is as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Keywords: Transgression
Description: Proverbs 17:9
NET Translation: The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.
DARBY Translation: He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.
KJV Translation: He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth [very] friends.
Keywords: Man, Reproof, Wise
Description: Proverbs 17:10
NET Translation: A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.
DARBY Translation: A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
KJV Translation: A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Keywords: Evil, Messenger
Description: Proverbs 17:11
NET Translation: An evil person seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
DARBY Translation: An evil [man] seeketh only rebellion; but a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
KJV Translation: An evil [man] seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Keywords: Bear, Bed, Ear, Fool, Meet
Description: Proverbs 17:12
NET Translation: It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.
DARBY Translation: Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.
KJV Translation: Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Keywords: Art, Evil
Description: Proverbs 17:13
NET Translation: As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.
DARBY Translation: Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
KJV Translation: Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Keywords: Beginning, Strife
Description: Proverbs 17:14
NET Translation: Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; abandon strife before it breaks out!
DARBY Translation: The beginning of contention is [as] when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.
KJV Translation: The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Keywords: Nation
Description: Proverbs 17:15
NET Translation: The one who acquits the guilty and the one who condemns the innocent—both of them are an abomination to the Lord.
DARBY Translation: He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, even they both are abomination to Jehovah.
KJV Translation: He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD.
Keywords: Art, Fool, Hand, Heart
Description: Proverbs 17:16
NET Translation: What’s the point of a fool having money in hand to buy wisdom, when his head is empty?
DARBY Translation: To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he] hath no sense?
KJV Translation: Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?
Keywords: Friend
Description: Proverbs 17:17
NET Translation: A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.
DARBY Translation: The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KJV Translation: A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 17:18
NET Translation: The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.
DARBY Translation: A senseless man striketh hands, becoming surety for his neighbour.
KJV Translation: A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Keywords: Gate, Transgression
Description: Proverbs 17:19
NET Translation: The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction.
DARBY Translation: He loveth transgression that loveth a quarrel; he that maketh high his gate seeketh destruction.
KJV Translation: He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Tongue
Description: Proverbs 17:20
NET Translation: The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.
DARBY Translation: He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.
KJV Translation: He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Keywords: Fool
Description: Proverbs 17:21
NET Translation: Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.
DARBY Translation: He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow, and the father of a vile [man] hath no joy.
KJV Translation: He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 17:22
NET Translation: A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
DARBY Translation: A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
KJV Translation: A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Keywords: Gift, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 17:23
NET Translation: A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.
DARBY Translation: A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of judgment.
KJV Translation: A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Keywords: Fool, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 17:24
NET Translation: Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.
DARBY Translation: Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
KJV Translation: Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth.
Keywords: Son
Description: Proverbs 17:25
NET Translation: A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
DARBY Translation: A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
KJV Translation: A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Keywords: Punish
Description: Proverbs 17:26
NET Translation: It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.
DARBY Translation: To punish a righteous [man] is not good, nor to strike nobles because of [their] uprightness.
KJV Translation: Also to punish the just [is] not good, [nor] to strike princes for equity.
Keywords: Knowledge, Man
Description: Proverbs 17:27
NET Translation: The truly wise person restrains his words, and the one who stays calm is discerning.
DARBY Translation: He that hath knowledge spareth his words; and a man of understanding is of a cool spirit.
KJV Translation: He that hath knowledge spareth his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 17:28
NET Translation: Even a fool who remains silent is considered wise, and the one who holds his tongue is deemed discerning.
DARBY Translation: Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is reckoned wise, [and] he that shutteth his lips, intelligent.
KJV Translation: Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.
Description: Proverbs 18:1
NET Translation: One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.
DARBY Translation: He that separateth himself seeketh [his] pleasure, he is vehement against all sound wisdom.
KJV Translation: Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Keywords: Art, Delight, Fool, Heart, Light
Description: Proverbs 18:2
NET Translation: A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.
DARBY Translation: A fool hath no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.
KJV Translation: A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Keywords: Ignominy, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 18:3
NET Translation: When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.
DARBY Translation: When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
KJV Translation: When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Keywords: Spring, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 18:4
NET Translation: The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
DARBY Translation: The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, [and] the fountain of wisdom is a gushing brook.
KJV Translation: The words of a man's mouth [are as] deep waters, [and] the wellspring of wisdom [as] a flowing brook.
Keywords: Righteous, Son
Description: Proverbs 18:5
NET Translation: It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.
DARBY Translation: It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.
KJV Translation: [It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Description: Proverbs 18:6
NET Translation: The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
DARBY Translation: A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for stripes.
KJV Translation: A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Description: Proverbs 18:7
NET Translation: The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.
DARBY Translation: A fool's mouth is destruction to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
KJV Translation: A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
Description: Proverbs 18:8
NET Translation: The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; and they have gone down into the person’s innermost being.
DARBY Translation: The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
KJV Translation: The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Keywords: Work
Description: Proverbs 18:9
NET Translation: The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.
DARBY Translation: He also who is indolent in his work is brother of the destroyer.
KJV Translation: He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Keywords: Name, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 18:10
NET Translation: The name of the Lord is like a strong tower; the righteous person runs to it and is set safely on high.
DARBY Translation: The name of Jehovah is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
KJV Translation: The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Keywords: Wall
Description: Proverbs 18:11
NET Translation: The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination.
DARBY Translation: The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.
KJV Translation: The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Keywords: Art, Destruction, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 18:12
NET Translation: Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.
DARBY Translation: Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; and before honour [goeth] humility.
KJV Translation: Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour [is] humility.
Keywords: Shame
Description: Proverbs 18:13
NET Translation: The one who gives an answer before he listens—that is his folly and his shame.
DARBY Translation: He that giveth answer before he heareth, it is folly and shame unto him.
KJV Translation: He that answereth a matter before he heareth [it], it [is] folly and shame unto him.
Keywords: Man, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 18:14
NET Translation: A person’s spirit sustains him through sickness—but who can bear a crushed spirit?
DARBY Translation: The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?
KJV Translation: The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Keywords: Art, Ear, Heart, Wise
Description: Proverbs 18:15
NET Translation: The discerning person acquires knowledge, and the wise person seeks knowledge.
DARBY Translation: The heart of an intelligent [man] getteth knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
KJV Translation: The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Keywords: Gift
Description: Proverbs 18:16
NET Translation: A person’s gift makes room for him, and leads him before important people.
DARBY Translation: A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
KJV Translation: A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
Description: Proverbs 18:17
NET Translation: The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him.
DARBY Translation: He that is first in his own cause [seemeth] just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
KJV Translation: [He that is] first in his own cause [seemeth] just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Keywords: Lot
Description: Proverbs 18:18
NET Translation: A toss of a coin ends disputes, and settles the issue between strong opponents.
DARBY Translation: The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
KJV Translation: The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
Description: Proverbs 18:19
NET Translation: A relative offended is harder to reach than a strong city, and disputes are like the barred gates of a fortified citadel.
DARBY Translation: A brother offended is [harder to be won] than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.
KJV Translation: A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city: and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle.
Keywords: Fruit
Description: Proverbs 18:20
NET Translation: From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied, with the product of his lips he will be satisfied.
DARBY Translation: A man's belly is satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; with the increase of his lips is he satisfied.
KJV Translation: A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; [and] with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Keywords: Death, Fruit, Life, Love, Power
Description: Proverbs 18:21
NET Translation: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.
DARBY Translation: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
KJV Translation: Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Keywords: Wife
Description: Proverbs 18:22
NET Translation: The one who has found a good wife has found what goodness is, and obtained a delightful gift from the Lord.
DARBY Translation: Whoso hath found a wife hath found a good thing, and hath obtained favour from Jehovah.
KJV Translation: [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 18:23
NET Translation: A poor person makes supplications, but a rich man answers harshly.
DARBY Translation: He that is poor speaketh with supplications, but the rich answereth roughly.
KJV Translation: The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
Keywords: Friend, Man
Description: Proverbs 18:24
NET Translation: There are companions who harm one another, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
DARBY Translation: A man of [many] friends will come to ruin but there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.
KJV Translation: A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.
Keywords: Better, Poor
Description: Proverbs 19:1
NET Translation: Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.
DARBY Translation: Better is a poor [man] that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
KJV Translation: Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Keywords: Feet, Soul
Description: Proverbs 19:2
NET Translation: It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.
DARBY Translation: Also that a person be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet maketh false steps.
KJV Translation: Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 19:3
NET Translation: A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord.
DARBY Translation: The folly of man distorteth his way, and his heart is irritated against Jehovah.
KJV Translation: The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 19:4
NET Translation: Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.
DARBY Translation: Wealth addeth many friends; but the poor is separated from his friend.
KJV Translation: Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Keywords: False, Witness
Description: Proverbs 19:5
NET Translation: A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will not escape punishment.
DARBY Translation: A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
KJV Translation: A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape.
Keywords: Friend, Man
Description: Proverbs 19:6
NET Translation: Many people entreat the favor of a generous person, and everyone is the friend of the person who gives gifts.
DARBY Translation: Many court the favour of a noble; and every one is friend to a man that giveth.
KJV Translation: Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man [is] a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Keywords: Hate, Poor
Description: Proverbs 19:7
NET Translation: All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him—one who chases words, which are nothing.
DARBY Translation: All the brethren of a poor [man] hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth [them] with words, they are not [to be found].
KJV Translation: All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth [them with] words, [yet] they [are] wanting [to him].
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 19:8
NET Translation: The one who acquires understanding loves himself; the one who preserves understanding will prosper.
DARBY Translation: He that getteth sense loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
KJV Translation: He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
Keywords: False, Witness
Description: Proverbs 19:9
NET Translation: A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.
DARBY Translation: A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.
KJV Translation: A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish.
Keywords: Delight, Light, Rule, Servant
Description: Proverbs 19:10
NET Translation: Luxury is not appropriate for a fool; how much less for a servant to rule over princes!
DARBY Translation: Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
KJV Translation: Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Keywords: Ass, Discretion, Glory, Man
Description: Proverbs 19:11
NET Translation: A person’s wisdom has made him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
DARBY Translation: The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
KJV Translation: The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression.
Keywords: Wrath
Description: Proverbs 19:12
NET Translation: A king’s wrath is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
DARBY Translation: The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
KJV Translation: The king's wrath [is] as the roaring of a lion; but his favour [is] as dew upon the grass.
Keywords: Calamity, Son, Wife
Description: Proverbs 19:13
NET Translation: A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
DARBY Translation: A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
KJV Translation: A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
Keywords: Inheritance, Riches, Wife
Description: Proverbs 19:14
NET Translation: A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
DARBY Translation: House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
KJV Translation: House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
Keywords: Idle, Soul, Suffer
Description: Proverbs 19:15
NET Translation: Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.
DARBY Translation: Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
KJV Translation: Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Description: Proverbs 19:16
NET Translation: The one who obeys commandments guards his life; the one who despises his ways will die.
DARBY Translation: He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his soul; he that is careless of his ways shall die.
KJV Translation: He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; [but] he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 19:17
NET Translation: The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.
DARBY Translation: He that is gracious to the poor lendeth unto Jehovah; and what he hath bestowed will he repay unto him.
KJV Translation: He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Keywords: Chasten, Son, Soul
Description: Proverbs 19:18
NET Translation: Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.
DARBY Translation: Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.
KJV Translation: Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Keywords: Deliver, Man, Suffer, Wrath
Description: Proverbs 19:19
NET Translation: A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.
DARBY Translation: A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.
KJV Translation: A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.
Keywords: Ear, Wise
Description: Proverbs 19:20
NET Translation: Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.
DARBY Translation: Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
KJV Translation: Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Keywords: Counsel
Description: Proverbs 19:21
NET Translation: There are many plans in a person’s mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord that will stand.
DARBY Translation: Many are the thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah, that doth stand.
KJV Translation: [There are] many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Keywords: Better, Man, Poor
Description: Proverbs 19:22
NET Translation: What is desirable for a person is to show loyal love, and a poor person is better than a liar.
DARBY Translation: The charm of a man is his kindness; and a poor [man] is better than a liar.
KJV Translation: The desire of a man [is] his kindness: and a poor man [is] better than a liar.
Keywords: Ear, Fear
Description: Proverbs 19:23
NET Translation: Fearing the Lord leads to life, and one who does so will live satisfied; he will not be afflicted by calamity.
DARBY Translation: The fear of Jehovah [tendeth] to life, and he [that hath it] shall rest satisfied without being visited with evil.
KJV Translation: The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Keywords: Hand
Description: Proverbs 19:24
NET Translation: The sluggard has plunged his hand into the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!
DARBY Translation: A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.
KJV Translation: A slothful [man] hideth his hand in [his] bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Keywords: Mite, Prove, ReProve
Description: Proverbs 19:25
NET Translation: Flog a scorner, and as a result the simpleton will learn prudence; correct a discerning person, and as a result he will understand knowledge.
DARBY Translation: Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reProve the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge.
KJV Translation: Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reProve one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
Keywords: Son
Description: Proverbs 19:26
NET Translation: The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
DARBY Translation: He that ruineth [his] father and chaseth away [his] mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
KJV Translation: He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Keywords: Ear, Instruction
Description: Proverbs 19:27
NET Translation: If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
DARBY Translation: Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.
KJV Translation: Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.
Keywords: Wicked, Witness
Description: Proverbs 19:28
NET Translation: A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
DARBY Translation: A witness of Belial scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth down iniquity.
KJV Translation: An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Description: Proverbs 19:29
NET Translation: Penalties have been prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.
DARBY Translation: Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of the foolish.
KJV Translation: Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Keywords: Wine
Description: Proverbs 20:1
NET Translation: Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
DARBY Translation: Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.
KJV Translation: Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Keywords: Anger, Ear, Fear, King
Description: Proverbs 20:2
NET Translation: The king’s terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.
DARBY Translation: The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
KJV Translation: The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.
Keywords: Fool, Man
Description: Proverbs 20:3
NET Translation: It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.
DARBY Translation: It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.
KJV Translation: [It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Keywords: Plow, Son
Description: Proverbs 20:4
NET Translation: The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.
DARBY Translation: The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
KJV Translation: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
Keywords: Art, Counsel, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 20:5
NET Translation: Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.
DARBY Translation: Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out.
KJV Translation: Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 20:6
NET Translation: Many people profess their loyalty, but a faithful person—who can find?
DARBY Translation: Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but a faithful man who shall find?
KJV Translation: Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Keywords: Children
Description: Proverbs 20:7
NET Translation: The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.
DARBY Translation: The righteous walketh in his integrity: blessed are his children after him!
KJV Translation: The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
Keywords: Evil, Judgment, King, Throne
Description: Proverbs 20:8
NET Translation: A king sitting on the throne to judge separates out all evil with his eyes.
DARBY Translation: A king sitting on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
KJV Translation: A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Pure
Description: Proverbs 20:9
NET Translation: Who can say, “I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
DARBY Translation: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
KJV Translation: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Keywords: Nation
Description: Proverbs 20:10
NET Translation: Diverse weights and diverse measures—the Lord abhors both of them.
DARBY Translation: Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
KJV Translation: Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
Keywords: Work
Description: Proverbs 20:11
NET Translation: Even a young man is known by his actions, whether his activity is pure and whether it is right.
DARBY Translation: Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
KJV Translation: Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.
Keywords: Earing
Description: Proverbs 20:12
NET Translation: The ear that hears and the eye that sees—the Lord has made them both.
DARBY Translation: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
KJV Translation: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Keywords: Halt, Love
Description: Proverbs 20:13
NET Translation: Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.
DARBY Translation: Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
KJV Translation: Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Description: Proverbs 20:14
NET Translation: “It’s worthless! It’s worthless!” says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.
DARBY Translation: Bad! bad! saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
KJV Translation: [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Keywords: Knowledge, Precious
Description: Proverbs 20:15
NET Translation: There is gold, and an abundance of rubies, but words of knowledge are like a precious jewel.
DARBY Translation: There is gold, and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a precious Jewel.
KJV Translation: There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
Keywords: Garment
Description: Proverbs 20:16
NET Translation: Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.
DARBY Translation: Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.
KJV Translation: Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Keywords: Bread, Deceit
Description: Proverbs 20:17
NET Translation: Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
DARBY Translation: Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
KJV Translation: Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Keywords: Purpose
Description: Proverbs 20:18
NET Translation: Plans are established by counsel, so make war with guidance.
DARBY Translation: Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.
KJV Translation: [Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Description: Proverbs 20:19
NET Translation: The one who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with someone who is always opening his mouth.
DARBY Translation: He that goeth about talebearing revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth his lips.
KJV Translation: He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Keywords: Lamp
Description: Proverbs 20:20
NET Translation: The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.
DARBY Translation: Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
KJV Translation: Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Keywords: Inheritance
Description: Proverbs 20:21
NET Translation: An inheritance gained easily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
DARBY Translation: An inheritance obtained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
KJV Translation: An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Keywords: Save, Wait
Description: Proverbs 20:22
NET Translation: Do not say, “I will pay back evil!” Wait for the Lord, so that he may vindicate you.
DARBY Translation: Say not, I will recompense evil: wait on Jehovah, and he shall save thee.
KJV Translation: Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Keywords: False, Lance, Nation
Description: Proverbs 20:23
NET Translation: The Lord abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.
DARBY Translation: Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.
KJV Translation: Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 20:24
NET Translation: The steps of a person are ordained by the Lord—so how can anyone understand his own way?
DARBY Translation: The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?
KJV Translation: Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 20:25
NET Translation: It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, “Holy!” and only afterward to consider what he has vowed.
DARBY Translation: It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is hallowed, and after vows to make inquiry.
KJV Translation: [It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Keywords: King, Wise
Description: Proverbs 20:26
NET Translation: A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.
DARBY Translation: A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
KJV Translation: A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Keywords: Man, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 20:27
NET Translation: The human spirit is like the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.
DARBY Translation: Man's spirit is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inner parts of the belly.
KJV Translation: The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Keywords: Mercy, Ruth, Throne, Truth
Description: Proverbs 20:28
NET Translation: Loyal love and truth preserve a king, and his throne is upheld by loyal love.
DARBY Translation: Mercy and truth preserve the king; and he upholdeth his throne by mercy.
KJV Translation: Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
Keywords: Beauty, Glory
Description: Proverbs 20:29
NET Translation: The glory of young men is their strength, and the splendor of old men is gray hair.
DARBY Translation: The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
KJV Translation: The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head.
Description: Proverbs 20:30
NET Translation: Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.
DARBY Translation: Wounding stripes purge away evil, and strokes [purge] the inner parts of the belly.
KJV Translation: The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Keywords: Art, Hand, Heart
Description: Proverbs 21:1
NET Translation: The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.
DARBY Translation: The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is [as] brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
KJV Translation: The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 21:2
NET Translation: All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates his thoughts.
DARBY Translation: Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but Jehovah weigheth the hearts.
KJV Translation: Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Keywords: Judgment, Justice, Table
Description: Proverbs 21:3
NET Translation: To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
DARBY Translation: To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
KJV Translation: To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Description: Proverbs 21:4
NET Translation: Haughty eyes and a proud heart—what the wicked cultivate is sin.
DARBY Translation: Lofty eyes, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
KJV Translation: An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin.
Description: Proverbs 21:5
NET Translation: The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
DARBY Translation: The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.
KJV Translation: The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want.
Keywords: Lying, Seek, Tongue, Vanity
Description: Proverbs 21:6
NET Translation: Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
DARBY Translation: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.
KJV Translation: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 21:7
NET Translation: The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.
DARBY Translation: The devastation of the wicked sweepeth them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
KJV Translation: The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Keywords: Man, Work
Description: Proverbs 21:8
NET Translation: The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.
DARBY Translation: Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.
KJV Translation: The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.
Keywords: Better, Man
Description: Proverbs 21:9
NET Translation: It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
DARBY Translation: It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.
KJV Translation: [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Keywords: Soul, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 21:10
NET Translation: The appetite of the wicked has desired evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.
DARBY Translation: The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
KJV Translation: The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
Keywords: Wise
Description: Proverbs 21:11
NET Translation: When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.
DARBY Translation: When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
KJV Translation: When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 21:12
NET Translation: The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.
DARBY Translation: One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked: he overthroweth the wicked to [their] ruin.
KJV Translation: The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.
Description: Proverbs 21:13
NET Translation: The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.
DARBY Translation: Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.
KJV Translation: Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Keywords: Gift, Reward, Secret
Description: Proverbs 21:14
NET Translation: A gift given in secret subdues anger, and a bribe given secretly subdues strong wrath.
DARBY Translation: A gift in secret pacifieth anger; and a present in the bosom, vehement fury.
KJV Translation: A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Keywords: Destruction, Joy
Description: Proverbs 21:15
NET Translation: Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil.
DARBY Translation: It is joy to a righteous [man] to do what is right; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.
KJV Translation: [It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
Keywords: Congregation, Man
Description: Proverbs 21:16
NET Translation: The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.
DARBY Translation: The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom shall abide in the congregation of the dead.
KJV Translation: The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Keywords: Oil, Poor, Wine
Description: Proverbs 21:17
NET Translation: The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.
DARBY Translation: He that loveth mirth shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
KJV Translation: He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Keywords: Ransom, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 21:18
NET Translation: The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous are taken in the place of the upright.
DARBY Translation: The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and a treacherous [man] in the stead of the upright.
KJV Translation: The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Keywords: Better
Description: Proverbs 21:19
NET Translation: It is better to live in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome and easily provoked woman.
DARBY Translation: It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.
KJV Translation: [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Keywords: Man, Oil, Treasure
Description: Proverbs 21:20
NET Translation: There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.
DARBY Translation: There is costly store and oil in the dwelling of a wise [man]; but a foolish man swalloweth it up.
KJV Translation: [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Keywords: Mercy
Description: Proverbs 21:21
NET Translation: The one who pursues righteousness and love finds life, bounty, and honor.
DARBY Translation: He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
KJV Translation: He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Keywords: Confidence, Strength, Wise
Description: Proverbs 21:22
NET Translation: A wise man went up against the city of the mighty and brought down the stronghold in which they trust.
DARBY Translation: A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
KJV Translation: A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
Keywords: Soul, Tongue
Description: Proverbs 21:23
NET Translation: The one who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his life from troubles.
DARBY Translation: Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
KJV Translation: Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Description: Proverbs 21:24
NET Translation: A proud and arrogant person, whose name is “Scoffer,” acts with overbearing pride.
DARBY Translation: Proud, arrogant, scorner is his name who dealeth in proud wrath.
KJV Translation: Proud [and] haughty scorner [is] his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Description: Proverbs 21:25
NET Translation: What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands have refused to work.
DARBY Translation: The desire of the sluggard killeth him; for his hands refuse to work:
KJV Translation: The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Keywords: Righteous
Description: Proverbs 21:26
NET Translation: All day long he has craved greedily, but the righteous person gives and does not hold back.
DARBY Translation: He coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
KJV Translation: He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Keywords: Sacrifice, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 21:27
NET Translation: The wicked person’s sacrifice is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!
DARBY Translation: The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more when they bring it with a wicked purpose!
KJV Translation: The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination: how much more, [when] he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Keywords: False, Man, Witness
Description: Proverbs 21:28
NET Translation: A lying witness will perish, but the one who reports accurately speaks forever.
DARBY Translation: A lying witness shall perish; and a man that heareth shall speak constantly.
KJV Translation: A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
Keywords: Man, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 21:29
NET Translation: A wicked person has put on a bold face, but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
DARBY Translation: A wicked man hardeneth his face; but as for the upright, he establisheth his way.
KJV Translation: A wicked man hardeneth his face: but [as for] the upright, he directeth his way.
Keywords: Counsel, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 21:30
NET Translation: There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.
DARBY Translation: There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against Jehovah.
KJV Translation: [There is] no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Keywords: Horse
Description: Proverbs 21:31
NET Translation: A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory is from the Lord.
DARBY Translation: The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but safety is of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: The horse [is] prepared against the day of battle: but safety [is] of the LORD.
Keywords: Chosen, Name, Silver
Description: Proverbs 22:1
NET Translation: A good name is to be chosen rather than great wealth, good favor more than silver or gold.
DARBY Translation: A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches; loving favour rather than silver and gold.
KJV Translation: A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches, [and] loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Keywords: Maker, Meet, Poor
Description: Proverbs 22:2
NET Translation: The rich and the poor are met together; the Lord is the Creator of them both.
DARBY Translation: The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.
KJV Translation: The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all.
Keywords: Ass
Description: Proverbs 22:3
NET Translation: A shrewd person saw danger and hid himself, but the naive passed on by and paid for it.
DARBY Translation: A prudent [man] seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
KJV Translation: A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Keywords: Ear, Fear, Humility
Description: Proverbs 22:4
NET Translation: The reward for humility and fearing the Lord is riches and honor and life.
DARBY Translation: The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life.
KJV Translation: By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honour, and life.
Keywords: Soul
Description: Proverbs 22:5
NET Translation: Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
DARBY Translation: Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.
KJV Translation: Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Keywords: Art, Rain
Description: Proverbs 22:6
NET Translation: Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
DARBY Translation: Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
KJV Translation: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Keywords: Servant
Description: Proverbs 22:7
NET Translation: The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
DARBY Translation: The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.
KJV Translation: The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender.
Keywords: Anger, Reap, Rod
Description: Proverbs 22:8
NET Translation: The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
DARBY Translation: He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.
KJV Translation: He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Keywords: Bread, Eye
Description: Proverbs 22:9
NET Translation: A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.
DARBY Translation: He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
KJV Translation: He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Keywords: Reproach, Strife
Description: Proverbs 22:10
NET Translation: Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.
DARBY Translation: Cast out the scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease.
KJV Translation: Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
Keywords: Grace, King
Description: Proverbs 22:11
NET Translation: The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious—the king will be his friend.
DARBY Translation: He that loveth pureness of heart, upon whose lips is grace, the king is his friend.
KJV Translation: He that loveth pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips the king [shall be] his friend.
Description: Proverbs 22:12
NET Translation: The eyes of the Lord watched over a cause, and subverted the words of the treacherous person.
DARBY Translation: The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful.
KJV Translation: The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
Keywords: Lion
Description: Proverbs 22:13
NET Translation: The sluggard has said, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”
DARBY Translation: The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
KJV Translation: The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Keywords: Women
Description: Proverbs 22:14
NET Translation: The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
DARBY Translation: The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
KJV Translation: The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Keywords: Art, Correction, Heart, Rod
Description: Proverbs 22:15
NET Translation: Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
DARBY Translation: Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
KJV Translation: Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 22:16
NET Translation: The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich—both end up only in poverty.
DARBY Translation: He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, [bringeth] only to want.
KJV Translation: He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.
Keywords: Art, Bow, Ear, Heart
Description: Proverbs 22:17
NET Translation: Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my instruction.
DARBY Translation: Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
KJV Translation: Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Keywords: Hin
Description: Proverbs 22:18
NET Translation: For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
DARBY Translation: For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
KJV Translation: For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
Keywords: Trust
Description: Proverbs 22:19
NET Translation: So that your confidence may be in the Lord, I hereby make them known to you today—even you.
DARBY Translation: That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
KJV Translation: That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
Description: Proverbs 22:20
NET Translation: Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,
DARBY Translation: Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,
KJV Translation: Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Keywords: Might, Ruth, Test, Truth
Description: Proverbs 22:21
NET Translation: to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you?
DARBY Translation: that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
KJV Translation: That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
Description: Proverbs 22:22
NET Translation: Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,
DARBY Translation: Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
KJV Translation: Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Keywords: Oil, Soul
Description: Proverbs 22:23
NET Translation: for the Lord will plead their case and will rob the life of those who are robbing them.
DARBY Translation: for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them.
KJV Translation: For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Keywords: Halt, Man, Ship
Description: Proverbs 22:24
NET Translation: Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,
DARBY Translation: Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;
KJV Translation: Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Description: Proverbs 22:25
NET Translation: lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
DARBY Translation: lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.
KJV Translation: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Description: Proverbs 22:26
NET Translation: Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.
DARBY Translation: Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:
KJV Translation: Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.
Keywords: Bed
Description: Proverbs 22:27
NET Translation: If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
DARBY Translation: if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
KJV Translation: If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Keywords: Ancient
Description: Proverbs 22:28
NET Translation: Do not move an ancient boundary stone that was put in place by your ancestors.
DARBY Translation: Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.
KJV Translation: Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 22:29
NET Translation: You have seen a person skilled in his work—he will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.
DARBY Translation: Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean.
KJV Translation: Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men].
Keywords: Test
Description: Proverbs 23:1
NET Translation: When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you,
DARBY Translation: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;
KJV Translation: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee:
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 23:2
NET Translation: and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.
DARBY Translation: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
KJV Translation: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.
Description: Proverbs 23:3
NET Translation: Do not crave that ruler’s delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
DARBY Translation: Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.
KJV Translation: Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.
Description: Proverbs 23:4
NET Translation: Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
DARBY Translation: Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
KJV Translation: Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Keywords: Eagle
Description: Proverbs 23:5
NET Translation: When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
DARBY Translation: wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
KJV Translation: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Keywords: Bread, Dainty, Evil
Description: Proverbs 23:6
NET Translation: Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;
DARBY Translation: Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
KJV Translation: Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 23:7
NET Translation: for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
DARBY Translation: For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
KJV Translation: For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
Keywords: Halt
Description: Proverbs 23:8
NET Translation: you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.
DARBY Translation: Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.
KJV Translation: The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 23:9
NET Translation: Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
DARBY Translation: Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
KJV Translation: Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Description: Proverbs 23:10
NET Translation: Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
DARBY Translation: Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
KJV Translation: Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Description: Proverbs 23:11
NET Translation: for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.
DARBY Translation: for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
KJV Translation: For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 23:12
NET Translation: Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.
DARBY Translation: Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
KJV Translation: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Keywords: Correction, Test
Description: Proverbs 23:13
NET Translation: Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
DARBY Translation: Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:
KJV Translation: Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Keywords: Deliver, Halt, Soul
Description: Proverbs 23:14
NET Translation: If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.
DARBY Translation: thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
KJV Translation: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 23:15
NET Translation: My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;
DARBY Translation: My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
KJV Translation: My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Keywords: Reins
Description: Proverbs 23:16
NET Translation: my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
DARBY Translation: and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
KJV Translation: Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Keywords: Art, Ear, Envy, Fear, Heart
Description: Proverbs 23:17
NET Translation: Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the Lord all the time.
DARBY Translation: Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day;
KJV Translation: Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Description: Proverbs 23:18
NET Translation: For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
DARBY Translation: for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
KJV Translation: For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
Keywords: Art, Ear, Heart
Description: Proverbs 23:19
NET Translation: Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.
DARBY Translation: Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
KJV Translation: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Description: Proverbs 23:20
NET Translation: Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,
DARBY Translation: Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
KJV Translation: Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Keywords: Glutton
Description: Proverbs 23:21
NET Translation: because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
DARBY Translation: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
KJV Translation: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.
Keywords: Begat, Mother
Description: Proverbs 23:22
NET Translation: Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
DARBY Translation: Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
KJV Translation: Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Description: Proverbs 23:23
NET Translation: Acquire truth and do not sell it—wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
DARBY Translation: Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
KJV Translation: Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Keywords: Joy, Righteous, Wise
Description: Proverbs 23:24
NET Translation: The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.
DARBY Translation: The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him:
KJV Translation: The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.
Keywords: Mother
Description: Proverbs 23:25
NET Translation: May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.
DARBY Translation: let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
KJV Translation: Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Description: Proverbs 23:26
NET Translation: Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;
DARBY Translation: My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
KJV Translation: My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Keywords: Arrow, Man
Description: Proverbs 23:27
NET Translation: for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.
DARBY Translation: For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
KJV Translation: For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
Keywords: Wait
Description: Proverbs 23:28
NET Translation: Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
DARBY Translation: She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
KJV Translation: She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Description: Proverbs 23:29
NET Translation: Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes?
DARBY Translation: Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
KJV Translation: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Keywords: Seek
Description: Proverbs 23:30
NET Translation: Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.
DARBY Translation: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
KJV Translation: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Keywords: Wine
Description: Proverbs 23:31
NET Translation: Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
DARBY Translation: Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
KJV Translation: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
Description: Proverbs 23:32
NET Translation: Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
DARBY Translation: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
KJV Translation: At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 23:33
NET Translation: Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
DARBY Translation: Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
KJV Translation: Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Keywords: Halt
Description: Proverbs 23:34
NET Translation: And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.
DARBY Translation: and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:
KJV Translation: Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Keywords: Halt, Seek
Description: Proverbs 23:35
NET Translation: You will say, “They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”
DARBY Translation: ''They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''
KJV Translation: They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Keywords: Evil
Description: Proverbs 24:1
NET Translation: Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;
DARBY Translation: Be not thou envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;
KJV Translation: Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 24:2
NET Translation: for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.
DARBY Translation: for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
KJV Translation: For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 24:3
NET Translation: By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;
DARBY Translation: Through wisdom is a house built, and by understanding it is established;
KJV Translation: Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
Keywords: Knowledge, Precious
Description: Proverbs 24:4
NET Translation: by knowledge its rooms are filled with all kinds of precious and pleasing treasures.
DARBY Translation: and by knowledge are the chambers filled with all precious and pleasant substance.
KJV Translation: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Keywords: Knowledge, Man, Wise
Description: Proverbs 24:5
NET Translation: A wise warrior is strong, and a man of knowledge makes his strength stronger;
DARBY Translation: A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
KJV Translation: A wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Keywords: Counsel, Halt, Wise
Description: Proverbs 24:6
NET Translation: for with guidance you wage your war, and with numerous advisers there is victory.
DARBY Translation: For with good advice shalt thou make thy war; and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
KJV Translation: For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 24:7
NET Translation: Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.
DARBY Translation: Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
KJV Translation: Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Keywords: Called, Evil
Description: Proverbs 24:8
NET Translation: The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person.
DARBY Translation: He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a master of intrigues.
KJV Translation: He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Keywords: Nation
Description: Proverbs 24:9
NET Translation: A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.
DARBY Translation: The purpose of folly is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.
KJV Translation: The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men.
Keywords: Strength
Description: Proverbs 24:10
NET Translation: You have slacked off in the day of trouble—your strength is small!
DARBY Translation: [If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
KJV Translation: [If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.
Keywords: Bear, Deliver, Ear, Forbear
Description: Proverbs 24:11
NET Translation: Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.
DARBY Translation: Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
KJV Translation: If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;
Keywords: Art, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 24:12
NET Translation: If you say, “But we did not know about this,” won’t the one who evaluates hearts discern it? Won’t the one who guards your life realize and repay each person according to his deeds?
DARBY Translation: If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth it; and he rendereth to man according to his work.
KJV Translation: If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to [every] man according to his works?
Description: Proverbs 24:13
NET Translation: Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
DARBY Translation: Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and a honeycomb is sweet to thy taste:
KJV Translation: My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:
Keywords: Knowledge, Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 24:14
NET Translation: Likewise, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you have found it, you have a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
DARBY Translation: so consider wisdom for thy soul; if thou hast found it, there shall be a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
KJV Translation: So [shall] the knowledge of wisdom [be] unto thy soul: when thou hast found [it], then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Keywords: Oil, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 24:15
NET Translation: Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.
DARBY Translation: Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.
KJV Translation: Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Proverbs 24:16
NET Translation: Indeed a righteous person will fall seven times, and then get up again, but the guilty will collapse in calamity.
DARBY Translation: For the righteous falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the wicked stumble into disaster.
KJV Translation: For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Rejoice
Description: Proverbs 24:17
NET Translation: Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,
DARBY Translation: Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth;
KJV Translation: Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Keywords: Wrath
Description: Proverbs 24:18
NET Translation: lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.
DARBY Translation: lest Jehovah see it, and it be evil in his sight, and he turn away his anger from him.
KJV Translation: Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Keywords: Evil, Fret
Description: Proverbs 24:19
NET Translation: Do not fret because of evil people or be envious of wicked people,
DARBY Translation: Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, [and] be not envious of the wicked:
KJV Translation: Fret not thyself because of evil [men], neither be thou envious at the wicked;
Keywords: Evil, Reward, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 24:20
NET Translation: for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
DARBY Translation: for there shall be no future to the evil [man]; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
KJV Translation: For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Keywords: Ear, Fear
Description: Proverbs 24:21
NET Translation: Fear the Lord, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,
DARBY Translation: My son, fear Jehovah and the king: meddle not with them that are given to change.
KJV Translation: My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: [and] meddle not with them that are given to change:
Keywords: Calamity
Description: Proverbs 24:22
NET Translation: for suddenly their destruction will overtake them, and who knows the ruinous judgment both the Lord and the king can bring?
DARBY Translation: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
KJV Translation: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
Description: Proverbs 24:23
NET Translation: These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:
DARBY Translation: These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
KJV Translation: These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Keywords: Abhor
Description: Proverbs 24:24
NET Translation: The one who says to the guilty, “You are innocent,” peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him.
DARBY Translation: He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him;
KJV Translation: He that saith unto the wicked, Thou [art] righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
Keywords: Rebuke, Sing
Description: Proverbs 24:25
NET Translation: But there will be delight for those who convict the guilty, and a pleasing blessing will come on them.
DARBY Translation: but to them that rebuke [him] shall be delight, and a good blessing cometh upon them.
KJV Translation: But to them that rebuke [him] shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Description: Proverbs 24:26
NET Translation: Like a kiss on the lips is the one who gives an honest answer.
DARBY Translation: He kisseth the lips who giveth a right answer.
KJV Translation: [Every man] shall kiss [his] lips that giveth a right answer.
Keywords: Build, Work
Description: Proverbs 24:27
NET Translation: Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
DARBY Translation: Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.
KJV Translation: Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Keywords: Witness
Description: Proverbs 24:28
NET Translation: Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.
DARBY Translation: Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?
KJV Translation: Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 24:29
NET Translation: Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”
DARBY Translation: Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the man according to his work.
KJV Translation: Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
Keywords: Man, Vineyard
Description: Proverbs 24:30
NET Translation: I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks sense.
DARBY Translation: I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;
KJV Translation: I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Keywords: Wall
Description: Proverbs 24:31
NET Translation: I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
DARBY Translation: and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.
KJV Translation: And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Description: Proverbs 24:32
NET Translation: Then I scrutinized it. I was putting my mind to it—I saw; I took in a lesson:
DARBY Translation: Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction:
KJV Translation: Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it, and] received instruction.
Description: Proverbs 24:33
NET Translation: “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
DARBY Translation: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
KJV Translation: [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Keywords: Poverty
Description: Proverbs 24:34
NET Translation: and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”
DARBY Translation: So shall thy poverty come [as] a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
KJV Translation: So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Keywords: Hezekiah, Judah, King
Description: Proverbs 25:1
NET Translation: These also are Proverbs of Solomon, which the men of King Hezekiah of Judah copied:
DARBY Translation: These are also Proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah transcribed.
KJV Translation: These [are] also Proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Keywords: Conceal, Glory, God, Search
Description: Proverbs 25:2
NET Translation: It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.
DARBY Translation: It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the glory of kings is to search out a thing.
KJV Translation: [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.
Keywords: Art, Earth, Heart, Heaven
Description: Proverbs 25:3
NET Translation: As the heaven is high and the earth is deep so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
DARBY Translation: The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
KJV Translation: The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable.
Description: Proverbs 25:4
NET Translation: Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge;
DARBY Translation: Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:
KJV Translation: Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Keywords: Throne, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 25:5
NET Translation: remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
DARBY Translation: take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
KJV Translation: Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Description: Proverbs 25:6
NET Translation: Do not honor yourself before the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;
DARBY Translation: Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of the great;
KJV Translation: Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great [men]:
Keywords: Better
Description: Proverbs 25:7
NET Translation: for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.
DARBY Translation: for better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither, than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes see.
KJV Translation: For better [it is] that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Description: Proverbs 25:8
NET Translation: Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?
DARBY Translation: Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
KJV Translation: Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Keywords: Secret
Description: Proverbs 25:9
NET Translation: When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person,
DARBY Translation: Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;
KJV Translation: Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself]; and discover not a secret to another:
Keywords: Infamy
Description: Proverbs 25:10
NET Translation: lest the one who hears it put you to shame and your infamy will never go away.
DARBY Translation: lest he that heareth [it] disgrace thee, and thine evil report turn not away.
KJV Translation: Lest he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Keywords: Gold
Description: Proverbs 25:11
NET Translation: Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.
DARBY Translation: [As] apples of gold in pictures of silver, is a word spoken in season.
KJV Translation: A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Keywords: Wise
Description: Proverbs 25:12
NET Translation: Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reProver to the ear of the one who listens.
DARBY Translation: An ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, is a wise reProver upon an attentive ear.
KJV Translation: [As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reProver upon an obedient ear.
Keywords: Messenger, Soul, Time
Description: Proverbs 25:13
NET Translation: Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the heart of his masters.
DARBY Translation: As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [so] is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
KJV Translation: As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Keywords: False, Gift, Wind
Description: Proverbs 25:14
NET Translation: Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.
DARBY Translation: Clouds and wind without rain, [so] is a man that boasteth himself of a false gift.
KJV Translation: Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift [is like] clouds and wind without rain.
Keywords: Earing, Tongue
Description: Proverbs 25:15
NET Translation: Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break a bone.
DARBY Translation: By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
KJV Translation: By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Description: Proverbs 25:16
NET Translation: You have found honey—eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.
DARBY Translation: Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.
KJV Translation: Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Keywords: Hate
Description: Proverbs 25:17
NET Translation: Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.
DARBY Translation: Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee and hate thee.
KJV Translation: Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and [so] hate thee.
Keywords: False, Man, Witness
Description: Proverbs 25:18
NET Translation: Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.
DARBY Translation: A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, is a man that beareth false witness against his neighbour.
KJV Translation: A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour [is] a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Keywords: Confidence, Man, Time, Trouble, Unfaithful
Description: Proverbs 25:19
NET Translation: Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.
DARBY Translation: A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful [man] in the day of trouble.
KJV Translation: Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Keywords: Garment
Description: Proverbs 25:20
NET Translation: Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
DARBY Translation: [As] he that taketh off a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a sad heart.
KJV Translation: [As] he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre, so [is] he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Keywords: Bread, Water
Description: Proverbs 25:21
NET Translation: If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
DARBY Translation: If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
KJV Translation: If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Keywords: Fire, Halt, Reward
Description: Proverbs 25:22
NET Translation: for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
DARBY Translation: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah shall reward thee.
KJV Translation: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
Keywords: Wind
Description: Proverbs 25:23
NET Translation: The north wind brings forth rain, and a gossiping tongue brings forth an angry look.
DARBY Translation: The north wind bringeth forth rain, and the angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
KJV Translation: The north wind driveth away rain: so [doth] an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Keywords: Better, Man
Description: Proverbs 25:24
NET Translation: It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.
DARBY Translation: It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.
KJV Translation: [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Description: Proverbs 25:25
NET Translation: Like cold water to a weary person, so is good news from a distant land.
DARBY Translation: [As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
KJV Translation: [As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so [is] good news from a far country.
Keywords: Man, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 25:26
NET Translation: Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.
DARBY Translation: A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous [man] that giveth way before the wicked.
KJV Translation: A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Keywords: Glory, Search
Description: Proverbs 25:27
NET Translation: It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.
DARBY Translation: It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.
KJV Translation: [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.
Keywords: Rule, Spirit
Description: Proverbs 25:28
NET Translation: Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper.
DARBY Translation: He that hath no rule over his own spirit is [as] a city broken down, without walls.
KJV Translation: He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
Keywords: Rain
Description: Proverbs 26:1
NET Translation: Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
DARBY Translation: As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour beseemeth not a fool.
KJV Translation: As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Keywords: Bird, Useless
Description: Proverbs 26:2
NET Translation: Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.
DARBY Translation: As the sparrow for flitting about, as the swallow for flying, so a curse undeserved shall not come.
KJV Translation: As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Keywords: Idle, Rod
Description: Proverbs 26:3
NET Translation: A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
DARBY Translation: A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
KJV Translation: A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Keywords: Fool
Description: Proverbs 26:4
NET Translation: Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.
DARBY Translation: Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
KJV Translation: Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Keywords: Fool, Wise
Description: Proverbs 26:5
NET Translation: Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own opinion.
DARBY Translation: Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
KJV Translation: Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Keywords: Fool, Hand, Message
Description: Proverbs 26:6
NET Translation: Like cutting off the feet or drinking violence, so is sending a message by the hand of a fool.
DARBY Translation: He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off [his own] feet, [and] drinketh damage.
KJV Translation: He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, [and] drinketh damage.
Keywords: Parable
Description: Proverbs 26:7
NET Translation: Like legs dangle uselessly from the lame, so a Proverb dangles in the mouth of fools.
DARBY Translation: The legs of the lame hang loose; so is a Proverb in the mouth of fools.
KJV Translation: The legs of the lame are not equal: so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.
Description: Proverbs 26:8
NET Translation: Like tying a stone in a sling, so is giving honor to a fool.
DARBY Translation: As a bag of gems in a stoneheap, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
KJV Translation: As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so [is] he that giveth honour to a fool.
Keywords: Hand, Horn, Parable
Description: Proverbs 26:9
NET Translation: Like a thorn has gone up into the hand of a drunkard, so a Proverb has gone up into the mouth of a fool.
DARBY Translation: [As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a Proverb in the mouth of fools.
KJV Translation: [As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.
Description: Proverbs 26:10
NET Translation: Like an archer who wounds at random, so is the one who hires a fool or hires any passerby.
DARBY Translation: A master roughly worketh every one: he both hireth the fool and hireth passers-by.
KJV Translation: The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
Keywords: Dog, Fool
Description: Proverbs 26:11
NET Translation: Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
DARBY Translation: As a dog turneth back to its vomit, [so] a fool repeateth his folly.
KJV Translation: As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.
Keywords: Fool, Hope, Man, Wise
Description: Proverbs 26:12
NET Translation: You have seen a man wise in his own opinion—there is more hope for a fool than for him.
DARBY Translation: Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
KJV Translation: Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Keywords: Lion
Description: Proverbs 26:13
NET Translation: The sluggard has said, “There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”
DARBY Translation: The sluggard saith, There is a fierce lion in the way; a lion is in the midst of the streets!
KJV Translation: The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.
Description: Proverbs 26:14
NET Translation: Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
DARBY Translation: [As] the door turneth upon its hinges, so the sluggard upon his bed.
KJV Translation: [As] the door turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed.
Keywords: Hand
Description: Proverbs 26:15
NET Translation: The sluggard has plunged his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
DARBY Translation: The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish: it wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth.
KJV Translation: The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
Keywords: Conceit
Description: Proverbs 26:16
NET Translation: The sluggard is wiser in his own opinion than seven people who respond with good sense.
DARBY Translation: A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven [men] that answer discreetly.
KJV Translation: The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Keywords: Dog, Strife
Description: Proverbs 26:17
NET Translation: Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.
DARBY Translation: He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is [like] one that taketh a dog by the ears.
KJV Translation: He that passeth by, [and] meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is like] one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Description: Proverbs 26:18
NET Translation: Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,
DARBY Translation: As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
KJV Translation: As a mad [man] who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 26:19
NET Translation: so is a person who has deceived his neighbor, and said, “Was I not only joking?”
DARBY Translation: so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?
KJV Translation: So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Keywords: Fire, Strife
Description: Proverbs 26:20
NET Translation: Where there is no wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no gossip, contention ceases.
DARBY Translation: Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.
KJV Translation: Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 26:21
NET Translation: Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife.
DARBY Translation: [As] coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
KJV Translation: [As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife.
Description: Proverbs 26:22
NET Translation: The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; and they have gone down into a person’s innermost being.
DARBY Translation: The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
KJV Translation: The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Potsherd, Silver, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 26:23
NET Translation: Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.
DARBY Translation: Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
KJV Translation: Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Keywords: Deceit, Hin
Description: Proverbs 26:24
NET Translation: The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him.
DARBY Translation: He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him:
KJV Translation: He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
Description: Proverbs 26:25
NET Translation: When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations within him.
DARBY Translation: when his voice is gracious, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
KJV Translation: When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for [there are] seven abominations in his heart.
Keywords: Hatred
Description: Proverbs 26:26
NET Translation: Though his hatred may be concealed by deceit, his evil will be uncovered in the assembly.
DARBY Translation: Though [his] hatred is covered by dissimulation, his wickedness shall be made manifest in the congregation.
KJV Translation: [Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the [whole] congregation.
Description: Proverbs 26:27
NET Translation: The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone—it will come back on him.
DARBY Translation: Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
KJV Translation: Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Keywords: Lying, Tongue
Description: Proverbs 26:28
NET Translation: A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
DARBY Translation: A lying tongue hateth those that are injured by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
KJV Translation: A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Description: Proverbs 27:1
NET Translation: Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
DARBY Translation: Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth.
KJV Translation: Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Keywords: Man, Praise
Description: Proverbs 27:2
NET Translation: Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
DARBY Translation: Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
KJV Translation: Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Keywords: Wrath
Description: Proverbs 27:3
NET Translation: A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them.
DARBY Translation: A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.
KJV Translation: A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.
Keywords: Anger, Wrath
Description: Proverbs 27:4
NET Translation: Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
DARBY Translation: Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
KJV Translation: Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
Keywords: Better, Rebuke, Secret
Description: Proverbs 27:5
NET Translation: Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
DARBY Translation: Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
KJV Translation: Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
Description: Proverbs 27:6
NET Translation: Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.
DARBY Translation: Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
KJV Translation: Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.
Keywords: Soul
Description: Proverbs 27:7
NET Translation: The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet.
DARBY Translation: The full soul trampleth on a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
KJV Translation: The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Keywords: Bird, Man
Description: Proverbs 27:8
NET Translation: Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.
DARBY Translation: As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
KJV Translation: As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.
Keywords: Friend, Rejoice
Description: Proverbs 27:9
NET Translation: Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one’s friend from sincere counsel.
DARBY Translation: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is [the fruit] of hearty counsel.
KJV Translation: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Keywords: Better, Ear
Description: Proverbs 27:10
NET Translation: Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.
DARBY Translation: Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
KJV Translation: Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 27:11
NET Translation: Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.
DARBY Translation: Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me.
KJV Translation: My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Keywords: Ass
Description: Proverbs 27:12
NET Translation: A shrewd person saw danger—he hid himself; the naive passed right on by—they had to pay for it.
DARBY Translation: A prudent [man] seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
KJV Translation: A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
Keywords: Garment
Description: Proverbs 27:13
NET Translation: Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.
DARBY Translation: Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.
KJV Translation: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Keywords: Early, Friend, Sing
Description: Proverbs 27:14
NET Translation: If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him.
DARBY Translation: He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him.
KJV Translation: He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 27:15
NET Translation: A continual dripping on a rainy day—a contentious wife makes herself like that.
DARBY Translation: A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:
KJV Translation: A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Description: Proverbs 27:16
NET Translation: Whoever contains her has contained the wind or can grasp oil with his right hand.
DARBY Translation: whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil.
KJV Translation: Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
Keywords: Iron, Man
Description: Proverbs 27:17
NET Translation: As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend.
DARBY Translation: Iron is sharpened by iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
KJV Translation: Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Keywords: Fig, Fruit, Master, Tree
Description: Proverbs 27:18
NET Translation: The one who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever takes care of his master will be honored.
DARBY Translation: Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.
KJV Translation: Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Man, Water
Description: Proverbs 27:19
NET Translation: As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person’s heart reflects the person.
DARBY Translation: As [in] water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
KJV Translation: As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
Keywords: Destruction, Hell, Man
Description: Proverbs 27:20
NET Translation: As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.
DARBY Translation: Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
KJV Translation: Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 27:21
NET Translation: As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person must put his praise to the test.
DARBY Translation: The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.
KJV Translation: [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.
Keywords: Art, Bray, Fool, Hough
Description: Proverbs 27:22
NET Translation: If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.
DARBY Translation: If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
KJV Translation: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
Description: Proverbs 27:23
NET Translation: Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,
DARBY Translation: Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:
KJV Translation: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
Keywords: Riches
Description: Proverbs 27:24
NET Translation: for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.
DARBY Translation: for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation?
KJV Translation: For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
Keywords: Ass, Grass
Description: Proverbs 27:25
NET Translation: When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
DARBY Translation: The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
KJV Translation: The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Description: Proverbs 27:26
NET Translation: the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field.
DARBY Translation: The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field;
KJV Translation: The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
Keywords: Food, Halt, Milk
Description: Proverbs 27:27
NET Translation: And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.
DARBY Translation: and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.
KJV Translation: And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
Keywords: Bold, Man, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 28:1
NET Translation: The wicked person fled, though no one was pursuing, but the righteous person can be as confident as a lion.
DARBY Translation: The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
KJV Translation: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Keywords: Knowledge, Man, Transgression
Description: Proverbs 28:2
NET Translation: When a country is rebellious it has many princes, but by someone who is discerning and knowledgeable order is maintained.
DARBY Translation: By the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding [and] of knowledge, [its] stability is prolonged.
KJV Translation: For the transgression of a land many [are] the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding [and] knowledge the state [thereof] shall be prolonged.
Keywords: Man, Poor, Rain
Description: Proverbs 28:3
NET Translation: A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.
DARBY Translation: A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
KJV Translation: A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Keywords: Law, Praise
Description: Proverbs 28:4
NET Translation: Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.
DARBY Translation: They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
KJV Translation: They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Keywords: Evil, Seek
Description: Proverbs 28:5
NET Translation: Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it all.
DARBY Translation: Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.
KJV Translation: Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all [things].
Keywords: Better, Hough, Poor
Description: Proverbs 28:6
NET Translation: A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.
DARBY Translation: Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.
KJV Translation: Better [is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [be] rich.
Keywords: Law, Wise
Description: Proverbs 28:7
NET Translation: The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.
DARBY Translation: Whoso observeth the law is a son that hath understanding; but he that is a companion of profligates bringeth shame to his father.
KJV Translation: Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father.
Keywords: Usury
Description: Proverbs 28:8
NET Translation: The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
DARBY Translation: He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.
KJV Translation: He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Keywords: Ear, Earing
Description: Proverbs 28:9
NET Translation: The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
DARBY Translation: He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
KJV Translation: He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer [shall be] abomination.
Keywords: Evil, Righteous
Description: Proverbs 28:10
NET Translation: The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
DARBY Translation: Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall himself fall into his own pit; but the perfect shall inherit good.
KJV Translation: Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession.
Keywords: Man, Poor, Wise
Description: Proverbs 28:11
NET Translation: A rich person is wise in his own opinion, but a discerning poor person can evaluate him properly.
DARBY Translation: A rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
KJV Translation: The rich man [is] wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Keywords: Man, Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 28:12
NET Translation: When the righteous rejoice, great is the glory, but when the wicked rise to power, people are sought out.
DARBY Translation: When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men conceal themselves.
KJV Translation: When righteous [men] do rejoice, [there is] great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Description: Proverbs 28:13
NET Translation: The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.
DARBY Translation: He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall obtain mercy.
KJV Translation: He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.
Keywords: Art, Happy, Heart, Man
Description: Proverbs 28:14
NET Translation: Blessed is the one who is always cautious, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.
DARBY Translation: Happy is the man that feareth always; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil.
KJV Translation: Happy [is] the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Keywords: Poor, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 28:15
NET Translation: Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
DARBY Translation: A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
KJV Translation: [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Description: Proverbs 28:16
NET Translation: The prince who is a great oppressor lacks wisdom, but the one who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.
DARBY Translation: The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor: he that hateth covetousness shall prolong [his] days.
KJV Translation: The prince that wanteth understanding [is] also a great oppressor: [but] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong [his] days.
Keywords: Blood, Man, Son
Description: Proverbs 28:17
NET Translation: The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
DARBY Translation: A man laden with the blood of [any] person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.
KJV Translation: A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Description: Proverbs 28:18
NET Translation: The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.
DARBY Translation: Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in [his] double ways, shall fall in one [of them].
KJV Translation: Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but [he that is] perverse [in his] ways shall fall at once.
Keywords: Poverty
Description: Proverbs 28:19
NET Translation: The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.
DARBY Translation: He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough.
KJV Translation: He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 28:20
NET Translation: A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.
DARBY Translation: A faithful man aboundeth with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
KJV Translation: A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Keywords: Bread, Man
Description: Proverbs 28:21
NET Translation: To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.
DARBY Translation: To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.
KJV Translation: To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.
Keywords: Evil, Poverty
Description: Proverbs 28:22
NET Translation: The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.
DARBY Translation: He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.
KJV Translation: He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 28:23
NET Translation: The one who reProves another will in the end find more favor than the one who flatters with the tongue.
DARBY Translation: He that rebuketh a man shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
KJV Translation: He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Description: Proverbs 28:24
NET Translation: The one who robs his father and mother and says, “There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.
DARBY Translation: Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
KJV Translation: Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, [It is] no transgression; the same [is] the companion of a destroyer.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Trust
Description: Proverbs 28:25
NET Translation: The greedy person stirs up dissension, but the one who trusts in the Lord will prosper.
DARBY Translation: He that is puffed up in soul exciteth contention; but he that relieth upon Jehovah shall be made fat.
KJV Translation: He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Keywords: Art, Heart
Description: Proverbs 28:26
NET Translation: The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.
DARBY Translation: He that confideth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
KJV Translation: He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 28:27
NET Translation: The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.
DARBY Translation: He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.
KJV Translation: He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 28:28
NET Translation: When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.
DARBY Translation: When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.
KJV Translation: When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Description: Proverbs 29:1
NET Translation: The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
DARBY Translation: He that being often reProved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.
KJV Translation: He, that being often reProved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 29:2
NET Translation: When the righteous become numerous, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.
DARBY Translation: When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
KJV Translation: When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Keywords: Wisdom
Description: Proverbs 29:3
NET Translation: The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth.
DARBY Translation: Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that is a companion of harlots destroyeth [his] substance.
KJV Translation: Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] substance.
Keywords: Judgment, King
Description: Proverbs 29:4
NET Translation: A king brings stability to a land by justice, but one who exacts tribute tears it down.
DARBY Translation: A king by just judgment establisheth the land; but he that taketh gifts overthroweth it.
KJV Translation: The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 29:5
NET Translation: The one who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
DARBY Translation: A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his steps.
KJV Translation: A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Keywords: Evil, Man, Righteous, Sing, Transgression
Description: Proverbs 29:6
NET Translation: In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.
DARBY Translation: In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous shall sing and rejoice.
KJV Translation: In the transgression of an evil man [there is] a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Keywords: Righteous, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 29:7
NET Translation: The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked person does not understand such knowledge.
DARBY Translation: The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.
KJV Translation: The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: [but] the wicked regardeth not to know [it].
Keywords: Wise
Description: Proverbs 29:8
NET Translation: Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath.
DARBY Translation: Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger.
KJV Translation: Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath.
Keywords: Man, Wise
Description: Proverbs 29:9
NET Translation: When a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.
DARBY Translation: If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, [he] hath no rest.
KJV Translation: [If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest.
Keywords: Hate, Seek
Description: Proverbs 29:10
NET Translation: Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.
DARBY Translation: The bloodthirsty hate the perfect, but the upright care for his soul.
KJV Translation: The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
Keywords: Fool, Wise
Description: Proverbs 29:11
NET Translation: A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.
DARBY Translation: A fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise [man] keepeth it back.
KJV Translation: A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards.
Description: Proverbs 29:12
NET Translation: If a ruler listens to lies, all his ministers will be wicked.
DARBY Translation: If a ruler hearken to lying words, all his servants are wicked.
KJV Translation: If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants [are] wicked.
Keywords: Man, Meet, Poor
Description: Proverbs 29:13
NET Translation: The poor person and the oppressor have this in common: the Lord gives light to the eyes of them both.
DARBY Translation: The indigent and the oppressor meet together; Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.
KJV Translation: The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
Keywords: King, Throne
Description: Proverbs 29:14
NET Translation: If a king judges the poor in truth, his throne will be established forever.
DARBY Translation: A king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
KJV Translation: The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Keywords: Mother, Reproof, Rod
Description: Proverbs 29:15
NET Translation: A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.
DARBY Translation: The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
KJV Translation: The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
Keywords: Righteous, Transgression, Wicked
Description: Proverbs 29:16
NET Translation: When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will see their downfall.
DARBY Translation: When the wicked increase, transgression increaseth; but the righteous shall see their fall.
KJV Translation: When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Keywords: Delight, Light
Description: Proverbs 29:17
NET Translation: Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.
DARBY Translation: Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest, and shall give delight unto thy soul.
KJV Translation: Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Keywords: Happy
Description: Proverbs 29:18
NET Translation: When there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but the one who keeps the law, blessed is he!
DARBY Translation: Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint; but happy is he that keepeth the law.
KJV Translation: Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he.
Keywords: Hough, Servant
Description: Proverbs 29:19
NET Translation: A servant cannot be corrected by words, for although he understands, there is no answer.
DARBY Translation: A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer.
KJV Translation: A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
Keywords: Fool, Hope, Man
Description: Proverbs 29:20
NET Translation: You have seen someone who is hasty in his words—there is more hope for a fool than for him.
DARBY Translation: Hast thou seen a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
KJV Translation: Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Keywords: Servant, Son
Description: Proverbs 29:21
NET Translation: If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.
DARBY Translation: He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.
KJV Translation: He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become [his] son at the length.
Keywords: Man
Description: Proverbs 29:22
NET Translation: An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.
DARBY Translation: An angry man exciteth contention; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
KJV Translation: An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Keywords: Pride
Description: Proverbs 29:23
NET Translation: A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.
DARBY Translation: A man's pride bringeth him low; but the humble in spirit shall obtain honour.
KJV Translation: A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Description: Proverbs 29:24
NET Translation: Whoever shares with a thief is his own enemy; he hears the oath to testify, but does not talk.
DARBY Translation: Whoso shareth with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration, and declareth not.
KJV Translation: Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth [it] not.
Keywords: Ear, Fear, Man, Trust
Description: Proverbs 29:25
NET Translation: The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be set on high.
DARBY Translation: The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his confidence in Jehovah is protected.
KJV Translation: The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Keywords: Judgment, Seek
Description: Proverbs 29:26
NET Translation: Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one receives justice.
DARBY Translation: Many seek the ruler's face; but a man's right judgment is from Jehovah.
KJV Translation: Many seek the ruler's favour; but [every] man's judgment [cometh] from the LORD.
Keywords: Man, Nation
Description: Proverbs 29:27
NET Translation: An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked.
DARBY Translation: An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is of upright way is an abomination to the wicked [man].
KJV Translation: An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.
Keywords: Man, Son
Description: Proverbs 30:1
NET Translation: The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh; an oracle: This man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and to Ukal:
DARBY Translation: The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the prophecy uttered by the man unto Ithiel, [even] unto Ithiel and Ucal:
KJV Translation: The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
Keywords: Brutish
Description: Proverbs 30:2
NET Translation: Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;
DARBY Translation: Truly *I* am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.
KJV Translation: Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Keywords: Knowledge
Description: Proverbs 30:3
NET Translation: I have not learned wisdom, nor can I have knowledge of the Holy One.
DARBY Translation: I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.
KJV Translation: I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Keywords: Wind
Description: Proverbs 30:4
NET Translation: Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you can know!
DARBY Translation: Who hath ascended up into the heavens, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a mantle? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?
KJV Translation: Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Keywords: God, Shield, Trust
Description: Proverbs 30:5
NET Translation: Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.
DARBY Translation: Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
KJV Translation: Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Keywords: Prove, ReProve
Description: Proverbs 30:6
NET Translation: Do not add to his words, lest he reProve you, and Prove you to be a liar.
DARBY Translation: Add thou not unto his words, lest he reProve thee, and thou be found a liar.
KJV Translation: Add thou not unto his words, lest he reProve thee, and thou be found a liar.
Keywords: Deny
Description: Proverbs 30:7
NET Translation: Two things I have asked from you; do not refuse me before I die:
DARBY Translation: Two things do I ask of thee; deny me [them] not before I die:
KJV Translation: Two [things] have I required of thee; deny me [them] not before I die:
Keywords: Convenient, Food, Poverty, Vanity
Description: Proverbs 30:8
NET Translation: Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,
DARBY Translation: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
KJV Translation: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Keywords: Deny, God, Name
Description: Proverbs 30:9
NET Translation: lest I become satisfied and act deceptively and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I become poor and steal and demean the name of my God.
DARBY Translation: lest I be full and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.
KJV Translation: Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].
Keywords: Accuse, Servant
Description: Proverbs 30:10
NET Translation: Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you are found guilty.
DARBY Translation: Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
KJV Translation: Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
Keywords: Bless
Description: Proverbs 30:11
NET Translation: There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
DARBY Translation: There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;
KJV Translation: [There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Keywords: Pure
Description: Proverbs 30:12
NET Translation: There is a generation who are pure in their own opinion and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
DARBY Translation: there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;
KJV Translation: [There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.
Description: Proverbs 30:13
NET Translation: There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.
DARBY Translation: there is a generation, how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
KJV Translation: [There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Keywords: Poor
Description: Proverbs 30:14
NET Translation: There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.
DARBY Translation: a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
KJV Translation: [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
Description: Proverbs 30:15
NET Translation: The leech has two daughters: “Give! Give!” There are three things that will never be satisfied, four that have never said, “Enough”—
DARBY Translation: The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three [things] never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:
KJV Translation: The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:
Keywords: Earth, Fire
Description: Proverbs 30:16
NET Translation: the grave, the barren womb; earth has not been satisfied with water; and fire has never said, “Enough!”
DARBY Translation: Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.
KJV Translation: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough.
Keywords: Eye, Obey, Valley
Description: Proverbs 30:17
NET Translation: The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother—the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
DARBY Translation: The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
KJV Translation: The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Description: Proverbs 30:18
NET Translation: There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand:
DARBY Translation: There are three [things] too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:
KJV Translation: There be three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Keywords: Eagle, Man, Serpent, Ship
Description: Proverbs 30:19
NET Translation: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.
DARBY Translation: The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid.
KJV Translation: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Description: Proverbs 30:20
NET Translation: This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said, “I have not done wrong.”
DARBY Translation: Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
KJV Translation: Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Keywords: Earth
Description: Proverbs 30:21
NET Translation: Under three things the earth has trembled, and under four things it cannot bear up:
DARBY Translation: Under three [things] the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up:
KJV Translation: For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:
Keywords: Fool, Servant
Description: Proverbs 30:22
NET Translation: under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who becomes stuffed with food,
DARBY Translation: Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
KJV Translation: For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Keywords: Handmaid, Odious
Description: Proverbs 30:23
NET Translation: under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.
DARBY Translation: under an odious [woman] when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.
KJV Translation: For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Description: Proverbs 30:24
NET Translation: There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise:
DARBY Translation: There are four [things] little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:
KJV Translation: There be four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] exceeding wise:
Keywords: Meat
Description: Proverbs 30:25
NET Translation: ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;
DARBY Translation: The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
KJV Translation: The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Keywords: Feeble, Houses
Description: Proverbs 30:26
NET Translation: rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;
DARBY Translation: the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;
KJV Translation: The conies [are but] a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Description: Proverbs 30:27
NET Translation: locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;
DARBY Translation: the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;
KJV Translation: The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Description: Proverbs 30:28
NET Translation: a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.
DARBY Translation: thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
KJV Translation: The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
Keywords: Comely
Description: Proverbs 30:29
NET Translation: There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently:
DARBY Translation: There are three [things] which have a stately step, and four are comely in going:
KJV Translation: There be three [things] which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Keywords: Lion
Description: Proverbs 30:30
NET Translation: a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;
DARBY Translation: The lion, mighty among beasts, which turneth not away for any;
KJV Translation: A lion [which is] strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
Keywords: Sing
Description: Proverbs 30:31
NET Translation: a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.
DARBY Translation: a [horse] girt in the loins; or the he-goat; and a king, against whom none can rise up.
KJV Translation: A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom [there is] no rising up.
Keywords: Hand
Description: Proverbs 30:32
NET Translation: If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!
DARBY Translation: If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] the hand upon thy mouth.
KJV Translation: If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
Keywords: Milk, Wrath
Description: Proverbs 30:33
NET Translation: For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.
DARBY Translation: For the pressing of milk bringeth forth butter, and the pressing of the nose bringeth forth blood; and the pressing of anger bringeth forth strife.
KJV Translation: Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Keywords: King, Mother, Prophecy
Description: Proverbs 31:1
NET Translation: The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him:
DARBY Translation: The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him:
KJV Translation: The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
Keywords: Son
Description: Proverbs 31:2
NET Translation: O my son, O son of my womb, O son of my vows,
DARBY Translation: What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows?
KJV Translation: What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
Keywords: Strength
Description: Proverbs 31:3
NET Translation: do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.
DARBY Translation: Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to them that destroy kings.
KJV Translation: Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Description: Proverbs 31:4
NET Translation: It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
DARBY Translation: It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers [to say], Where is the strong drink?
KJV Translation: [It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Keywords: Forget, Judgment
Description: Proverbs 31:5
NET Translation: lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.
DARBY Translation: lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.
KJV Translation: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Keywords: Wine
Description: Proverbs 31:6
NET Translation: Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;
DARBY Translation: Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:
KJV Translation: Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Keywords: Forget, Remember
Description: Proverbs 31:7
NET Translation: let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
DARBY Translation: let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
KJV Translation: Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Description: Proverbs 31:8
NET Translation: Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.
DARBY Translation: Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
KJV Translation: Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Keywords: Judge, Poor
Description: Proverbs 31:9
NET Translation: Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
DARBY Translation: Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.
KJV Translation: Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Description: Proverbs 31:10
NET Translation: Who can find a wife of noble character? For her value is far more than rubies.
DARBY Translation: Who can find a woman of worth? for her price is far above rubies.
KJV Translation: Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Trust
Description: Proverbs 31:11
NET Translation: Her husband’s heart has trusted her, and he does not lack the dividends.
DARBY Translation: The heart of her husband confideth in her, and he shall have no lack of spoil.
KJV Translation: The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Keywords: Evil
Description: Proverbs 31:12
NET Translation: She has rewarded him with good and not harm all the days of her life.
DARBY Translation: She doeth him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
KJV Translation: She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Description: Proverbs 31:13
NET Translation: She sought out wool and flax, then worked happily with her hands.
DARBY Translation: She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
KJV Translation: She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Keywords: Food
Description: Proverbs 31:14
NET Translation: She was like the merchant ships; she would bring in her food from afar.
DARBY Translation: She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;
KJV Translation: She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Keywords: Meat
Description: Proverbs 31:15
NET Translation: Then she rose while it was still night, and provided food for her household and a portion to her female servants.
DARBY Translation: And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day's work to her maidens.
KJV Translation: She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Keywords: Fruit
Description: Proverbs 31:16
NET Translation: She considered a field and bought it; from her own income she planted a vineyard.
DARBY Translation: She considereth a field, and acquireth it; of the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
KJV Translation: She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Description: Proverbs 31:17
NET Translation: She clothed herself in might, and she strengthened her arms.
DARBY Translation: She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.
KJV Translation: She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Description: Proverbs 31:18
NET Translation: She perceived that her merchandise was good. Her lamp would not go out in the night.
DARBY Translation: She perceiveth that her earning is good; her lamp goeth not out by night.
KJV Translation: She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night.
Description: Proverbs 31:19
NET Translation: She extended her hands to the spool, and her hands grasped the spindle.
DARBY Translation: She putteth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
KJV Translation: She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Keywords: Hand
Description: Proverbs 31:20
NET Translation: She opened her hand to the poor, and extended her hands to the needy.
DARBY Translation: She stretcheth out her hand to the afflicted, and she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
KJV Translation: She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Description: Proverbs 31:21
NET Translation: She would not fear for her household in winter, because all her household were clothed with scarlet,
DARBY Translation: She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
KJV Translation: She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet.
Keywords: Rings
Description: Proverbs 31:22
NET Translation: because she had made coverings for herself; and because her clothing was fine linen and purple.
DARBY Translation: She maketh herself coverlets; her clothing is byssus and purple.
KJV Translation: She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.
Description: Proverbs 31:23
NET Translation: Her husband is well-known in the city gate when he sits with the elders of the land.
DARBY Translation: Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
KJV Translation: Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Description: Proverbs 31:24
NET Translation: She made linen garments then sold them, and traded belts to the merchants;
DARBY Translation: She maketh body linen and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
KJV Translation: She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Keywords: Rejoice, Strength, Time
Description: Proverbs 31:25
NET Translation: her clothing was strong and splendid; and she laughed at the time to come.
DARBY Translation: Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laugheth [at] the coming day.
KJV Translation: Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Keywords: Law, Tongue
Description: Proverbs 31:26
NET Translation: She has opened her mouth with wisdom, with loving instruction on her tongue.
DARBY Translation: She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and upon her tongue is the law of kindness.
KJV Translation: She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.
Keywords: Bread
Description: Proverbs 31:27
NET Translation: Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.
DARBY Translation: She surveyeth the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
KJV Translation: She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Keywords: Children
Description: Proverbs 31:28
NET Translation: Her children have risen and called her blessed; her husband also has praised her:
DARBY Translation: Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her:
KJV Translation: Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.
Description: Proverbs 31:29
NET Translation: “Many daughters have done valiantly, but you have surpassed them all!”
DARBY Translation: Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.
KJV Translation: Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Keywords: Beauty, Man
Description: Proverbs 31:30
NET Translation: Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting. A woman who fears the Lord—she makes herself praiseworthy.
DARBY Translation: Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman [that] feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
KJV Translation: Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Keywords: Fruit, Praise
Description: Proverbs 31:31
NET Translation: Give her credit for what she has accomplished, and let her works praise her in the city gates.
DARBY Translation: Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
KJV Translation: Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Keywords: Joy, Prove
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:1
NET Translation: I thought to myself, “Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.
DARBY Translation: I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.
KJV Translation: I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will Prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.
Keywords: Art, Estate, God, Heart, Might
Description: Ecclesiastes 3:18
NET Translation: I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.
DARBY Translation: I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may Prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.
KJV Translation: I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Description: Ecclesiastes 7:23
NET Translation: I have examined all this by wisdom; I said, “I am determined to comprehend this”—but it was beyond my grasp.
DARBY Translation: All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
KJV Translation: All this have I Proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me.
Keywords: Bread, God, Wine
Description: Ecclesiastes 9:7
NET Translation: Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already apProved your works.
DARBY Translation: Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
KJV Translation: Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Description: Ecclesiastes 12:9
NET Translation: Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught knowledge to the people; he carefully evaluated and arranged many Proverbs.
DARBY Translation: And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, [and] set in order many Proverbs.
KJV Translation: And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, [and] set in order many Proverbs.
Keywords: Judge, Nation, Rebuke, Sword, War
Description: Isaiah 2:4
NET Translation: He will judge disputes between nations; he will settle cases for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not take up the sword against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.
DARBY Translation: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reProve many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
KJV Translation: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Keywords: Ear, Earing, Fear, Judge, Prove, ReProve
Description: Isaiah 11:3
NET Translation: He will take delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.
DARBY Translation: And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reProve after the hearing of his ears;
KJV Translation: And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reProve after the hearing of his ears:
Keywords: Earth, Judge, Meek, Mite, Prove, ReProve, Rod
Description: Isaiah 11:4
NET Translation: He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.
DARBY Translation: but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reProve with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
KJV Translation: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reProve with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Keywords: Halt, King
Description: Isaiah 14:4
NET Translation: you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!
DARBY Translation: that thou shalt take up this Proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the exactress of gold ceased!
KJV Translation: That thou shalt take up this Proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Keywords: Foundation, Precious, Zion
Description: Isaiah 28:16
NET Translation: Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord, says: “Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an apProved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.
DARBY Translation: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I lay for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that trusteth shall not make haste.
KJV Translation: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Keywords: Man
Description: Isaiah 29:21
NET Translation: those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
DARBY Translation: that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reProveth in the gate, and pervert [the judgment of] the righteous by futility.
KJV Translation: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reProveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Keywords: Clean, Ear, Wise
Description: Isaiah 30:24
NET Translation: The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.
DARBY Translation: and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted Provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
KJV Translation: The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean Provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Keywords: Assyria, Ear, God, King, Master, Prove, Remnant, Reproach, ReProve, Syria
Description: Isaiah 37:4
NET Translation: Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”
DARBY Translation: It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.
KJV Translation: It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reProve the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.
Keywords: Mote
Description: Isaiah 41:7
NET Translation: The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages the one who pounds on the anvil. He apProves the quality of the welding, and nails it down so it won’t fall over.
DARBY Translation: And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it be not moved.
KJV Translation: So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved.
Description: Isaiah 43:26
NET Translation: Remind me of what happened. Let’s debate! You, Prove to me that you are right!
DARBY Translation: Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own [cause], that thou mayest be justified.
KJV Translation: Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Keywords: Image, Raven, Table
Description: Isaiah 44:10
NET Translation: Who forms a god and casts an idol that will Prove worthless?
DARBY Translation: Who hath formed a God, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
KJV Translation: Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
Keywords: Ear, Evil, Fear, God, Prove, ReProve
Description: Jeremiah 2:19
NET Translation: Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
DARBY Translation: Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reProve thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
KJV Translation: Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reProve thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Description: Jeremiah 5:13
NET Translation: The prophets will Prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”
DARBY Translation: and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
KJV Translation: And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Keywords: Wicked
Description: Jeremiah 6:29
NET Translation: The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has Proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.
DARBY Translation: The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.
KJV Translation: The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Keywords: Brutish, Image, Man, Raven
Description: Jeremiah 10:14
NET Translation: All these idolaters will Prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
DARBY Translation: Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
KJV Translation: Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Sheep
Description: Jeremiah 12:3
NET Translation: But you, Lord, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!
DARBY Translation: But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and Proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
KJV Translation: But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Keywords: Reins, Vengeance
Description: Jeremiah 20:12
NET Translation: O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, you test and Prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.
DARBY Translation: And thou, Jehovah of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
KJV Translation: But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
Keywords: Deliver, Earth, Reproach
Description: Jeremiah 24:9
NET Translation: I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a Proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
DARBY Translation: And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a Proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them;
KJV Translation: And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a Proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Keywords: Prophet
Description: Jeremiah 29:27
NET Translation: You should have reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth who is pretending to be a prophet among you!
DARBY Translation: And now, why hast thou not reProved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you?
KJV Translation: Now therefore why hast thou not reProved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
Keywords: Hand, Judah, King, Zedekiah
Description: Jeremiah 32:3
NET Translation: For King Zedekiah had confined Jeremiah there after he had reProved him for prophesying as he did. He had asked Jeremiah, “Why do you keep prophesying these things? Why do you keep saying that the Lord says, ‘I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon? I will let him capture it.
DARBY Translation: For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why dost thou prophesy and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
KJV Translation: For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Keywords: Evil
Description: Jeremiah 44:22
NET Translation: Finally the Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a Proverbial example used in curses.
DARBY Translation: And Jehovah could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations that ye had committed; and your land is become a waste, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as at this day.
KJV Translation: So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Keywords: Egypt, Escape, Remnant, Sojourn, Sword
Description: Jeremiah 44:28
NET Translation: Some who survive the battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word Proves true, mine or theirs.’
DARBY Translation: And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, a very small company; and all the remnant of Judah, that have come into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine or theirs.
KJV Translation: Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Keywords: Punish, Sign
Description: Jeremiah 44:29
NET Translation: Moreover the Lord says, ‘I will make something happen to Prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will Prove true.
DARBY Translation: And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall certainly stand against you for evil:
KJV Translation: And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Keywords: Halt
Description: Jeremiah 46:11
NET Translation: Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will Prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.
DARBY Translation: Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no healing for thee.
KJV Translation: Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.
Keywords: Calamity, Time
Description: Jeremiah 46:21
NET Translation: Even her mercenaries will Prove to be like pampered, well-fed calves. For they too will turn and run away. They will not stand their ground when the time for them to be destroyed comes, the time for them to be punished.
DARBY Translation: Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
KJV Translation: Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.
Description: Jeremiah 48:30
NET Translation: I, the Lord, affirm that I know how arrogant they are. But their pride is ill founded. Their boastings will Prove to be false.
DARBY Translation: I know his wrath, saith Jehovah; his pratings are vain: they do not as [they say].
KJV Translation: I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].
Keywords: Brutish, Image, Man, Raven
Description: Jeremiah 51:17
NET Translation: all idolaters will Prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham; there is no breath in any of those idols.
DARBY Translation: Every man is become brutish, so as to have no knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
KJV Translation: Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
Keywords: Man
Description: Lamentations 3:36
NET Translation: to defraud a person in a lawsuit—the Lord does not apProve of such things!
DARBY Translation: to wrong a man in his cause, will not the Lord see it?
KJV Translation: To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord apProveth not.
Keywords: Cleave, Halt, Tongue
Description: Ezekiel 3:26
NET Translation: I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reProve them, for they are a rebellious house.
DARBY Translation: And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reProver; for they are a rebellious house.
KJV Translation: And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reProver: for they [are] a rebellious house.
Keywords: Son, Vision
Description: Ezekiel 12:22
NET Translation: “Son of man, what is this Proverb you have in the land of Israel, ‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?
DARBY Translation: Son of man, what is that Proverb which ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days shall be prolonged, and every vision faileth?
KJV Translation: Son of man, what [is] that Proverb [that] ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
Description: Ezekiel 12:23
NET Translation: Therefore tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this Proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.’ But say to them, ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.
DARBY Translation: Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will make this Proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a Proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the accomplishment of every vision.
KJV Translation: Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this Proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a Proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
Keywords: Sign
Description: Ezekiel 14:8
NET Translation: I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
DARBY Translation: and I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate, [so that he shall be] for a sign and for Proverbs, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
KJV Translation: And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a Proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Description: Ezekiel 16:44
NET Translation: “‘Observe—everyone who quotes Proverbs will quote this Proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”
DARBY Translation: Behold, every one that useth Proverbs shall speak in a Proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, [so is] her daughter!
KJV Translation: Behold, every one that useth Proverbs shall use [this] Proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.
Description: Ezekiel 18:2
NET Translation: “What do you mean by quoting this Proverb concerning the land of Israel: “‘The fathers eat sour grapes, And the children’s teeth become numb?’
DARBY Translation: What mean ye, ye who use this Proverb of the land of Israel, saying, [The] fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
KJV Translation: What mean ye, that ye use this Proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Description: Ezekiel 18:3
NET Translation: “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will not quote this Proverb in Israel anymore!
DARBY Translation: [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have any more to use this Proverb in Israel.
KJV Translation: [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have [occasion] any more to use this Proverb in Israel.
Keywords: Parable, Water
Description: Ezekiel 24:3
NET Translation: Recite a Proverb to this rebellious house and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Set on the pot, set it on, pour water in it too;
DARBY Translation: And propose a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Set on the pot, set [it] on, and also pour water into it.
KJV Translation: And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set [it] on, and also pour water into it:
Keywords: Beseech, Prove, Pulse, Water
Description: Daniel 1:12
NET Translation: “Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
DARBY Translation: Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;
KJV Translation: Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Description: Daniel 1:14
NET Translation: So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.
DARBY Translation: And he hearkened unto them in this matter, and Proved them ten days.
KJV Translation: So he consented to them in this matter, and Proved them ten days.
Keywords: King, Light, Man, Master, Spirit, Wisdom
Description: Daniel 5:11
NET Translation: There is a man in your kingdom who has within him a spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he Proved to have insight, discernment, and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners.
DARBY Translation: There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, [even] the king thy father, made him master of the scribes, magicians, Chaldeans, [and] astrologers;
KJV Translation: There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, [I say], thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers;
Keywords: Man, Prove, ReProve
Description: Hosea 4:4
NET Translation: Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else: for my case is against you priests!
DARBY Translation: Yet let no man strive, and let no man reProve; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
KJV Translation: Yet let no man strive, nor reProve another: for thy people [are] as they that strive with the priest.
Keywords: Heathen, Rule
Description: Joel 2:17
NET Translation: Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, “Have pity, O Lord, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a Proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’
DARBY Translation: Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they should be a byword of the nations. Wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
KJV Translation: Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God?
Keywords: Abhor, Hate
Description: Amos 5:10
NET Translation: The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.
DARBY Translation: They hate him that reProveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
KJV Translation: They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Keywords: Doleful, Parable
Description: Micah 2:4
NET Translation: In that day people will sing this taunt song to you—they will mock you with this lament: ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’”
DARBY Translation: In that day shall they take up a Proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious.
KJV Translation: In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed [it] from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Keywords: Judge, Nation, Rebuke, Sword, War
Description: Micah 4:3
NET Translation: He will arbitrate between many peoples and settle disputes between many distant nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not use weapons against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.
DARBY Translation: And he shall judge among many peoples, and reProve strong nations, even afar off; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
KJV Translation: And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Keywords: Watch
Description: Habakkuk 2:1
NET Translation: I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.
DARBY Translation: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer as to my reproof.
KJV Translation: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reProved.
Keywords: Parable, Woe
Description: Habakkuk 2:6
NET Translation: “But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with Proverbial sayings: ‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him (How long will this go on?)—he who gets rich by extortion!’
DARBY Translation: Shall not all these take up a Proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that loadeth himself with pledges!
KJV Translation: Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting Proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
Keywords: Meat, Prove
Description: Malachi 3:10
NET Translation: “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all.
DARBY Translation: Bring the whole tithe into the treasure-house, that there may be food in my house, and Prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I open not to you the windows of the heavens, and pour you out a blessing, till there be no place for it.
KJV Translation: Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].
Keywords: Meet
Description: Matthew 3:8
NET Translation: Therefore produce fruit that Proves your repentance,
DARBY Translation: Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.
KJV Translation: Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Keywords: Ass, Ear, Trespass
Description: Matthew 18:15
NET Translation: “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.
DARBY Translation: But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reProve him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
KJV Translation: “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.”
Keywords: Children, Gin, God, Hin
Description: Luke 3:8
NET Translation: Therefore produce fruit that Proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
DARBY Translation: Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father, for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
KJV Translation: Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to [our] father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Keywords: Rod
Description: Luke 3:19
NET Translation: But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,
DARBY Translation: But Herod the tetrarch, being reProved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,
KJV Translation: But Herod the tetrarch, being reProved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
Keywords: Heal
Description: Luke 4:23
NET Translation: Jesus said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the Proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, do here in your hometown too.’”
DARBY Translation: And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.
KJV Translation: And he said unto them, “Ye will surely say unto me this Proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.”
Keywords: Bear, Build, Ear, Witness
Description: Luke 11:48
NET Translation: So you testify that you apProve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!
DARBY Translation: Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for *they* killed them, and *ye* build [their sepulchres].
KJV Translation: “Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.”
Keywords: Pray, Prove, Yoke
Description: Luke 14:19
NET Translation: Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’
DARBY Translation: And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to Prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.
KJV Translation: “And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to Prove them: I pray thee have me excused.”
Keywords: God, Jesus, Prophet
Description: Luke 24:19
NET Translation: He said to them, “What things?” “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied, “a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, Proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;
DARBY Translation: And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
KJV Translation: And he said unto them, “What things?” And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
Keywords: Evil
Description: John 3:20
NET Translation: For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
DARBY Translation: For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
KJV Translation: “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reProved.”
Description: John 4:52
NET Translation: So he asked them the time when his condition began to imProve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”
DARBY Translation: He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
KJV Translation: Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Keywords: Prove
Description: John 6:6
NET Translation: (Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)
DARBY Translation: But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do.
KJV Translation: And this he said to Prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
Description: John 8:46
NET Translation: Who among you can Prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?
DARBY Translation: Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?
KJV Translation: “Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?”
Keywords: Prove, ReProve
Description: John 16:8
NET Translation: And when he comes, he will Prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment—
DARBY Translation: And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
KJV Translation: “And when he is come, he will reProve the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:”
Keywords: Time
Description: John 16:25
NET Translation: “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
DARBY Translation: These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.
KJV Translation: “These things have I spoken unto you in Proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in Proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.”
Description: John 16:29
NET Translation: His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!
DARBY Translation: His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speakest openly and utterest no allegory.
KJV Translation: His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no Proverb.
Keywords: Ear, God, Jesus, Man
Description: Acts 2:22
NET Translation: “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know—
DARBY Translation: Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as yourselves know
KJV Translation: Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man apProved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Keywords: Accuse, Prove
Description: Acts 24:13
NET Translation: nor can they Prove to you the things they are accusing me of doing.
DARBY Translation: neither can they make good the things of which they now accuse me.
KJV Translation: Neither can they Prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Keywords: Jerusalem, Jews
Description: Acts 25:7
NET Translation: When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they were not able to Prove.
DARBY Translation: And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which they were not able to Prove:
KJV Translation: And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not Prove.
Keywords: Judgment
Description: Romans 1:32
NET Translation: Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also apProve of those who practice them.
DARBY Translation: who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do [them].
KJV Translation: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Description: Romans 2:18
NET Translation: and know his will and apProve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,
DARBY Translation: and knowest the will, and discerningly apProvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
KJV Translation: And knowest [his] will, and apProvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Keywords: Art, God, Man, Test
Description: Romans 3:4
NET Translation: Absolutely not! Let God be Proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”
DARBY Translation: Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.
KJV Translation: God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Keywords: Better, Jews
Description: Romans 3:9
NET Translation: What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
DARBY Translation: What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:
KJV Translation: What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before Proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Keywords: Prove, Transformed
Description: Romans 12:2
NET Translation: Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and apProve what is the will of God—what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
DARBY Translation: And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of [your] mind, that ye may Prove what [is] the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
KJV Translation: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may Prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Keywords: Christ, Table
Description: Romans 14:18
NET Translation: For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and apProved by people.
DARBY Translation: For he that in this serves the Christ [is] acceptable to God and apProved of men.
KJV Translation: For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and apProved of men.
Keywords: Happy
Description: Romans 14:22
NET Translation: The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he apProves.
DARBY Translation: Hast *thou* faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Blessed [is] he who does not judge himself in what he allows.
KJV Translation: Hast thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
Description: Romans 16:10
NET Translation: Greet Apelles, who is apProved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.
DARBY Translation: Salute Apelles, apProved in Christ. Salute those who belong to Aristobulus.
KJV Translation: Salute Apelles apProved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' [household].
Description: 1 Corinthians 11:19
NET Translation: For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are apProved may be evident.
DARBY Translation: For there must also be sects among you, that the apProved may become manifest among you.
KJV Translation: For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are apProved may be made manifest among you.
Keywords: Examine, Man
Description: 1 Corinthians 11:28
NET Translation: A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.
DARBY Translation: But let a man Prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
KJV Translation: But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.
Keywords: Prove
Description: 1 Corinthians 16:3
NET Translation: Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you apProve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
DARBY Translation: And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall apProve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:
KJV Translation: And when I come, whomsoever ye shall apProve by [your] letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
Keywords: Ear, Earing, Vehement
Description: 2 Corinthians 7:11
NET Translation: For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have Proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
DARBY Translation: For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but [what] excusing [of yourselves], but [what] indignation, but [what] fear, but [what] ardent desire, but [what] zeal, but [what] vengeance: in every way ye have Proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
KJV Translation: For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have apProved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Description: 2 Corinthians 7:14
NET Translation: For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has Proved true as well.
DARBY Translation: Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been [the] truth;
KJV Translation: For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which [I made] before Titus, is found a truth.
Keywords: Prove, Sincerity
Description: 2 Corinthians 8:8
NET Translation: I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.
DARBY Translation: I do not speak as commanding [it], but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.
KJV Translation: I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to Prove the sincerity of your love.
Keywords: Confidence
Description: 2 Corinthians 8:22
NET Translation: And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.
DARBY Translation: And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often Proved to be of diligent zeal in many things, and now more diligently zealous through the great confidence [he has] as to you.
KJV Translation: And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes Proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which [I have] in you.
Description: 2 Corinthians 10:18
NET Translation: For it is not the person who commends himself who is apProved, but the person the Lord commends.
DARBY Translation: For not *he* that commends himself is apProved, but whom the Lord commends.
KJV Translation: For not he that commendeth himself is apProved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
Keywords: Christ, Examine, Jesus, Prove
Description: 2 Corinthians 13:5
NET Translation: Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless, indeed, you fail the test!
DARBY Translation: examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; Prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
KJV Translation: Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; Prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Keywords: Ear, God, Hough, Pray
Description: 2 Corinthians 13:7
NET Translation: Now we pray to God that you may not do anything wrong, not so that we may appear to have passed the test, but so that you may do what is right even if we may appear to have failed the test.
DARBY Translation: But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear apProved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates.
KJV Translation: Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear apProved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
Keywords: Man, Prove, Rejoicing
Description: Galatians 6:4
NET Translation: Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.
DARBY Translation: but let each Prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.
KJV Translation: But let every man Prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Keywords: Fellowship, Prove, ReProve, Ship
Description: Ephesians 5:11
NET Translation: Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
DARBY Translation: and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reProve [them],
KJV Translation: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reProve [them].
Description: Ephesians 5:13
NET Translation: But all things being exposed by the light are made visible.
DARBY Translation: But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.
KJV Translation: But all things that are reProved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Keywords: Prove
Description: Philippians 1:10
NET Translation: so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,
DARBY Translation: that ye may judge of and apProve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,
KJV Translation: That ye may apProve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
Keywords: Flesh
Description: Colossians 1:22
NET Translation: but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him—
DARBY Translation: in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,
KJV Translation: In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreProveable in his sight:
Description: 1 Thessalonians 2:1
NET Translation: For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you—it has not Proven to be purposeless.
DARBY Translation: For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we had] to you, that it has not been in vain;
KJV Translation: For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
Keywords: God, Leasing, Sing, Trust
Description: 1 Thessalonians 2:4
NET Translation: but just as we have been apProved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.
DARBY Translation: but even as we have been apProved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who Proves our hearts.
KJV Translation: But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
Description: 1 Thessalonians 3:5
NET Translation: So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had Proven useless.
DARBY Translation: For this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.
KJV Translation: For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
Keywords: Prove
Description: 1 Thessalonians 5:21
NET Translation: But examine all things; hold fast to what is good.
DARBY Translation: but Prove all things, hold fast the right;
KJV Translation: Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Description: 1 Timothy 3:10
NET Translation: And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.
DARBY Translation: And let these be first Proved, then let them minister, being without charge [against them].
KJV Translation: And let these also first be Proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being [found] blameless.
Keywords: Man
Description: 2 Timothy 2:15
NET Translation: Make every effort to present yourself before God as a Proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.
DARBY Translation: Strive diligently to present thyself apProved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.
KJV Translation: Study to shew thyself apProved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Keywords: Instant, Longsuffering, Preach
Description: 2 Timothy 4:2
NET Translation: Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reProve, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.
DARBY Translation: proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.
KJV Translation: Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reProve, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Keywords: Obedience, Transgression
Description: Hebrews 2:2
NET Translation: For if the message spoken through angels Proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,
DARBY Translation: For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,
KJV Translation: For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Keywords: Forty
Description: Hebrews 3:9
NET Translation: “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
DARBY Translation: where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.
KJV Translation: When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Keywords: Death
Description: Hebrews 9:16
NET Translation: For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be Proven.
DARBY Translation: (For where [there is] a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.
KJV Translation: For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Keywords: Art, Exhortation
Description: Hebrews 12:5
NET Translation: And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.
DARBY Translation: And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not [the] chastening of [the] Lord, nor faint [when] reProved by him;
KJV Translation: And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Keywords: Love, Man
Description: James 1:12
NET Translation: Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has Proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
DARBY Translation: Blessed [is the] man who endures temptation; for, having been Proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.
KJV Translation: Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Keywords: Earing, Glory, Gold, Hough, Jesus, Might, Praise, Precious, Trial
Description: 1 Peter 1:7
NET Translation: Such trials show the Proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold—gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away—and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
DARBY Translation: that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be Proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in [the] revelation of Jesus Christ:
KJV Translation: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Keywords: Dog
Description: 2 Peter 2:22
NET Translation: They are illustrations of this true Proverb: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
DARBY Translation: But that [word] of the true Proverb has happened to them: [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed sow to [her] rolling in mud.
KJV Translation: But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Keywords: FALSE
Description: 1 John 4:1
NET Translation: Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
DARBY Translation: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but Prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
KJV Translation: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.