e ch. 2. 2, 3. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: Of whoredom, riot, &c. eyes; keep them in the midst of thine Before heart. CHRIST cir. 1000. 12. 18. cine. 22 For they are life unto those that t ch.2.1. find them, and "+health to all their flesh. u ch. 3. 8. & 23 Keep thy heart with all dili-Heb.medigence; for out of it are the issues of life. + Heb. above 24 Put away from thee ta froward all keeping. mouth, and perverse lips put far from wardness of thee. + Heb.fro mouth, and perverseness 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and of lips. let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and || let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor the left: 'remove thy foot from evil. CHAP. V. to 1 Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom. 3 He sheweth the mischief of whoredom and riot. 14 He exhorteth to contentedness, liberality, and chastity. 22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins. son, attend unto my wisdom, and forget it not; neither decline from the Mow thine ear to my understand words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall pre-ing: f2 Thess. 2 serve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. 10. g Matt. 13. 44. Luke 10. 42. b 1 Sam. 2 30. i ch. 1. 9. & 3.22 :Or, she shall compass thee with a crown of glory. k cb 3.2. 1 Ps. 18. 36. 12 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 9 She shall give to thine head 1an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. 11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. 12 When thou goest, thy steps shall Ps. 91. 11, not be straitened; mand when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as dark9,10. ness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 'Let them not depart from thine ch. 3- 3,21. 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may "keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her †mouth is smoother than oil: e C 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword. | Or, all thy ways shall be ordered aright. x Deut. 5. 32. & 28. 14. Josh. 1. 7. y Isai. 1. 16. Rom. 12. 9. 5 Her feet go down to death; her f ch. 7. 27. steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with +thy + Heb. thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart "despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and strength. ch. 1. 29. ch. 1. 25 & 12. 1. 21 "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden Hebr. 4.13 with the cords of his sins. Jer. 16. 17. & 32. 19. Hos. 7. 2. n Ps. 9. 15. + Heb. sin. 23 He shall die without instruction; Job 4 21. and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. & 36. 12. a ch. 11. 15. & 17. 18. & 20. 16. & 22. 26. & 27. 13. Or, so shalt thou prevail with thy friend. CHAP. VI. 1 Against suretiship, 6 idleness, 12 and mischievousness. 16 Seven things hateful to God. 20 The blessings of obedience. 25 The mischiefs of whoredom. Y son, if thou be surety for thy M friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. 3 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. 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor b l's. 132. 4. slumber to thine eyelids. e Job 12.7. d ch. 24-33, 34. e ch. 10. 4. & 13. 4. & 20.4. f Job.15. 12. Ps. 35. 19. ch. 10. 10. g Mic. 2. 1. h ver. 19. + Heb. cast eth forth. 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 'He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Before The mischiefs of whoredom 17+A proud look, a lying tongue, CHRIST and "hands that shed innocent blood, cir. 1000. & 101.5 18° An heart that deviseth wicked im- 1 P. 18, 77, aginations, "feet that be swift in running He to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he 'that soweth discord among bre Haughty eyes. m Ps. 120.2, 3. D Isai. 1. 15 o Gen. 6. 5 g Isai. 59. 7. Rom. 3. 15q Pa. 27.12. ch. 19-59 r ver. 14. s ch. 1.8. Eph. 6. 1. t ch. 3. 3. & 7.3 24. 22 "When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep ch.323, thee; and when thou awakest, it shall ch. 2. 11. talk with thee. 23 'For the commandment is a ||lamp; & 119. 105. and the law is light; and reproofs of in- 1 Or, candle. struction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery || of the tongue of a strange woman. 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 14 Frowardness is in his heart, "he de-1 viseth mischief continually; "he tsoweth discord. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come i Jer. 19. 11. suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken k 2 Chron. 36. 16. * without remedy. 16 ¶ These six things doth the LORD + Heb. of his hate: yea, seven are an abomination soul. funto him: C M + Heb.heart. will t the fact + Heb. He of any rar 2. 1. Y son, keep my words, and layev 185 up my commandments with thee. 2 b Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. ch.44 Isai. 55. 3c Deut. 10 4. e ch.2. 16. & 5 That they may keep thee from the 5.3. & & 24. The excellency and eternity of wisdom. 1 The fame, 6 and evidency of wisdom. 10 a strange woman from the stranger which DOTH not wisdom cry? and under flattereth her words. 6¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young fch. 6. 32. & man void of understanding, + Heb. the SOILS. 16. Job 24. 15 + Heb. in the eeening of the day. h ch. 9.13. 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, †in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; 'her Tim. 5 feet abide not in her house: 13. Tit. 2.5. + Heb, she strengthened her face, and said. + fleb. Peace 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 14 †I have peace offerings with me; eferings are this day have I payed my vows. upon me. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and 'I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with k Isai. 19. 9. *fine linen of Egypt. + Heb. in his hand. ! Or, the BEES TROGR. I ch. 53 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. m 21 With her much fair speech she m Ps. 12. 2. caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; 'as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. 24 ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 "Her house as the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. 7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. abomination 8 All the words of my mouth are in of my lips. righteousness; there is nothing +froward wreathed. or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. 11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. The discipline and doctrine of wisdom. CHRIST Before cir. 1000. Before brought forth; when there were no foun- | ginning of wisdom: and the knowledge CHRIST 1 Or, open q Gen. 1.9, 10. Job 38. 10, 11. Ps. before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set || a compass upon the face of the depth: 28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his 9. Jer. 5.22 commandment: when he appointed the Job 38. 4. foundations of the earth: 33.7. & 104. s John 1. 1, 2, 18. 30 Then I was by him, as one brought Matt. 3. 17. up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Col. 1. 13. 31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of Ps. 16. 3. his earth; and "my delights were with the sons of men. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, XP. 119. O ye children: for blessed are they that 2. Luke 11. keep my ways. 2. & 128. 1, 28. y ch. 3. 13, 18. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, Heb. bring and shall obtain favour of the LORD. forth. 36 But he that sinneth against me a ch. 20. 2. wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. z ch. 12. 2. a Matt. 16. 18. Eph. 2. 20, 21, 22. 1 Pet. 2.5 b Matt. 22. 3, &c. CHAP. IX. 12 °If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise Job 35. 6, for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. 13 A foolish woman is clamorous; P ch.7.11. she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of a ver. 3. the city, 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways: 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in a ver. 4. hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and • ch.20 17bread teaten in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. 3 The LORD will not suffer the soul 1 The discipline, 4 and doctrine of wisdom. WISDO lars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she Heb. her hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. killing. ever. 5. ch. 23. 30. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of e ch. 8. 1, 2. the city, f ver. 14. g ver. 16, cb. 6. 32. Matt. 11. 25. h ver. 2. Cant. 5. 1. 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink Isai. 55. 1. of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. John 6. 27. i Matt. 7. 6. 7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. 8 'Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate k Ps. 141.5 thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ednen. 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love ch. 179. covereth all sins. 13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but 'a rod is for the back of him that is void of tunderstanding. I Cor. 13. + 1 Pet. 48 rch. ¿ + Heb. + Heb. of heart. z Gen. 24. Ps. 37-22. 20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. 22 The blessing of the LORD, it mak35 & 12. eth rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. 23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. a ch. 14. 9. & 15- 21. a Lev. 19 35, 35. Deut. 25. 13-16 43. 16. 11. & 21). 10, 23. + Heb. of the righteous and the wicked. 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall + direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. 7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. Before CHRIST cir. 1000. + Heb. rectify. fch. 5. 22. Eccles. 10.8. ch. 10. 28, 8 The righteous is delivered out of h ch. 21. 18. trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. 9 An hypocrite with his mouth de- i Job 8. 13. stroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. 10 When it goeth well with the right- ch.28. 12, 25. eous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. k Esth. 8. 15. 11 1By the blessing of the upright the 1 ch. 29.8. city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. tute of heart. 12 He that is void of wisdom despis- +Heb. destieth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. 13 +A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit conceal- + eth the matter. 14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety. 15 He that is surety for a stranger +shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure. 16 A gracious woman retaineth hohour: and strong men retain riches. m Lev. 19. 16. ch. 20. 19. Heb. He that walketh, being a talebearer. ni Kings 12. 1, &c. ch. 15. 22. & 24.6. o ch. 6. 1. Heb. shall be sore broken. + Heb. those that strike hands. p ch. 31. 30. Matt. 5.7. 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he' that is cruel trou- & 25.34, &c. bleth his own flesh. A+FALSE balance is abomination good: but the expectation of the wicked to the LORD: but †a just weight is balances of his delight. deceit. + Heb. a perfeet stone. ch. 15. 33. & 16. 18 & 15 12. Dan. 4-30, 31. e ch. 13. 6. 4 ch. 10. 2 Lark. 7. 19. 2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 4 Riches profit not in the day of Zeph. 1. wrath: but righteousness delivereth from Lectus 5. & Gen. 7. 1. death. parteth from. u Rom. 2. 8, 9. 24 There is that scattereth, and yet x Ps. 112.9. increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. y 2 Cor. 9. 6, 7,8,9,10. Or, The soul of bless ing. z Matt. 5.7 Amos 8. 5. 6. blessing Job 29.13. 26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but |