### Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 27

## The Proverbs

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| The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
| By the transgression of a land many [are] its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right -- it is prolonged.
| A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, [Is] a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
| Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.
| Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.
| Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
| Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.
| Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
| Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer [is] an abomination.
| Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.
| A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.
| In the exulting of the righteous the glory [is] abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.
| Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
| O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.
| A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
| A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.
| A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
| Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.
| Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled [with] poverty.
| A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
| To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.
| Troubled for wealth [is] the man [with] an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
| Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.
| Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
| Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.
| Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.
| Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.
| In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!

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