### Douay Rheims Bible

Proverbs 23

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 24
#### 1 | Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:
#### 2 | Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.
#### 3 | By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.
#### 4 | By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth.
#### 5 | A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.
#### 6 | Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
#### 7 | Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.
#### 8 | He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool.
#### 9 | The thought of a fool is sin: and the detracter is the abomination of men.
#### 10 | If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
#### 11 | Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death forbear not to deliver.
#### 12 | If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, end he shall render to a man according to his works.
#### 13 | Fat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat:
#### 14 | So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.
#### 15 | Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
#### 16 | For a just mall shall fall seven times and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.
#### 17 | When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:
#### 18 | Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
#### 19 | Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly:
#### 20 | For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
#### 21 | My son, fear the Lord and the king: and have nothing to do with detracters.
#### 22 | For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
#### 23 | These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
#### 24 | They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
#### 25 | They that rebuke him, shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
#### 26 | He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
#### 27 | Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
#### 28 | Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
#### 29 | Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
#### 30 | I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
#### 31 | And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
#### 32 | Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.
#### 33 | Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest:
#### 34 | And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

Proverbs 25

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