Proverbs 24:8-23

⁸Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.

⁹The thought of folly is sin, And an abomination to man is a scorner.

¹⁰Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

¹¹If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter — thou keepest back.

¹²When thou sayest, 'Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

¹³Eat my son, honey that is good, And the honeycomb — sweet to thy palate.

¹⁴So is the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.

¹⁵Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

¹⁶For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

¹⁷In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

¹⁸Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

¹⁹Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

²⁰For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²¹Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,

²²For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both — who knoweth!

²³These also are for the wise: — To discern faces in judgment is not good.