Proverbs 24 (NET)

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Proverbs 24:1¹Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:2²for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:3³By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:4⁴by knowledge its rooms are filled with all kinds of precious and pleasing treasures.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:5⁵A wise warrior is strong, and a man of knowledge makes his strength stronger;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:6⁶for with guidance you wage your war, and with numerous advisers there is victory.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:7⁷Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:8⁸The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:9⁹A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:10¹⁰You have slacked off in the day of trouble — your strength is small!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:11¹¹Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:12¹²If 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?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:13¹³Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:14¹⁴Likewise, 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:15¹⁵Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:16¹⁶Indeed a righteous person will fall seven times, and then get up again, but the guilty will collapse in calamity.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:17¹⁷Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:18¹⁸lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:19¹⁹Do not fret because of evil people or be envious of wicked people,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:20²⁰for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:21²¹Fear the Lord, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:22²²for suddenly their destruction will overtake them, and who knows the ruinous judgment both the Lord and the king can bring?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:23²³These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:24²⁴The one who says to the guilty, “You are innocent,” peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:25²⁵But there will be delight for those who convict the guilty, and a pleasing blessing will come on them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:26²⁶Like a kiss on the lips is the one who gives an honest answer.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:27²⁷Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:28²⁸Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:29²⁹Do 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:30³⁰I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks sense.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:31³¹I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:32³²Then I scrutinized it. I was putting my mind to it— I saw; I took in a lesson:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:33³³“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 24:34³⁴and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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