These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ecclesiastes 10
Tanakh 20 verses
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Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; So doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and .
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A wise man’s understanding is at his right hand; But a fool’s understanding at his left.
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Yea also, when a fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
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If the of the ruler rise up against thee, Leave not thy place; For gentleness allayeth great offences.
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, Like an error which proceedeth from a ruler:
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Folly is set on great heights, And the rich sit in low place.
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I have seen servants upon horses, And princes walking as servants upon the earth.
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He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; And whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.
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- 9 Whoso quarrieth stones shall be hurt therewith; And he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.
- 10 If the iron be blunt, And one do not whet the edge, Then must he put to more strength; But wisdom is profitable to direct.
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If the serpent bite before it is charmed, Then the charmer hath no advantage.
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The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; But the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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Luke 4:22 Proverbs 15:2 Ephesians 4:29 Colossians 4:6 Proverbs 31:26 Psalm 140:9 Proverbs 10:20-21 Proverbs 26:9 Proverbs 22:17-18 Proverbs 12:18 Proverbs 16:21-24 Matthew 12:35 Psalm 64:8 Proverbs 19:5 Job 16:5 2 Samuel 1:16 Proverbs 10:31-32 Proverbs 18:6-8 Proverbs 12:13-14 Proverbs 15:23 Psalm 40:9-10 Psalm 37:30 Proverbs 10:10 Proverbs 10:8 1 Kings 20:40-42 Job 4:3-4 Luke 19:22 Psalm 71:15-18 Proverbs 10:13-14 Proverbs 25:11-12 Proverbs 22:11 - 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; And the end of his talk is grievous madness.
- 14 A fool also multiplieth words; Yet man knoweth not what shall be; And that which shall be after him, Who can tell him?
- 15 The labour of fools wearieth every one of them, For he knoweth not how to go to the city.
- 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy is a boy, And thy princes feast in the morning!
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Happy art thou, O land, when thy is a free man, And thy princes eat in due season, In strength, and not in drunkenness!
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By slothfulness the rafters sink in; And through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
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A feast is made for laughter, And wine maketh glad the life; And money answereth all things.
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Psalm 104:15 Luke 12:19 Ecclesiastes 7:2-6 Ecclesiastes 9:7 1 Chronicles 29:2-9 1 Chronicles 21:24 Genesis 43:34 Isaiah 24:11 Nehemiah 5:8 Matthew 19:21 Psalm 112:9 Matthew 17:27 Ephesians 5:18-19 1 Samuel 25:36 Ezra 1:6 Ecclesiastes 2:1-2 Isaiah 23:18 Acts 2:45 Acts 11:29 Ecclesiastes 7:11-12 Ezra 7:15-18 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Judges 9:13 2 Chronicles 24:11-14 1 Peter 4:3 Daniel 5:1-12 2 Samuel 13:28 Luke 8:3 Philippians 4:15-19 Luke 16:9 -
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Curse not the , no, not in thy thought, And not the rich in thy bedchamber; For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, And that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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