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The mocker is detested by men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don't join those who are rebellious:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both—who knows?</p> <p class="hdg">Further Sayings of the Wise</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him—</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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