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id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/2.htm" title="Proverbs 2">◄</a> Proverbs 3 <a href="../proverbs/4.htm" title="Proverbs 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My son, forget not my teaching;</div><div class="po2">But let thy heart keep my commandments;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For length of days, and years of life,</div><div class="po2">And peace, will they add to thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Let not kindness and truth forsake thee;</div><div class="po2">Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So shalt thou find grace and good favour</div><div class="po2">In the sight of God and man.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Trust in the LORD with all thy heart,</div><div class="po2">And lean not upon thine own understanding.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In all thy ways acknowledge Him,</div><div class="po2">And He will direct thy paths.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Be not wise in thine own eyes;</div><div class="po2">Fear the LORD, and depart from evil;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>It shall be health to thy navel,</div><div class="po2">And marrow to thy bones.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Honour the LORD with thy substance,</div><div class="po2">And with the first-fruits of all thine increase;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So shall thy barns be filled with plenty,</div><div class="po2">And thy vats shall overflow with new wine.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Neither spurn thou His correction;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For whom the LORD loveth He correcteth,</div><div class="po2">Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,</div><div class="po2">And the man that obtaineth understanding.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver,</div><div class="po2">And the gain thereof than fine gold.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>She is more precious than rubies;</div><div class="po2">And all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Length of days is in her right hand;</div><div class="po2">In her left hand are riches and honour.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Her ways are ways of pleasantness,</div><div class="po2">And all her paths are peace.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her,</div><div class="po2">And happy is every one that holdest her fast.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The LORD by wisdom founded the earth;</div><div class="po2">By understanding He established the heavens.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>By His knowledge the depths were broken up,</div><div class="po2">And the skies drop down the dew.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>My son, let not them depart from thine eyes;</div><div class="po2">Keep sound wisdom and discretion;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So shall they be life unto thy soul,</div><div class="po2">And grace to thy neck.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then shalt thou walk in thy way securely,</div><div class="po2">And thou shalt not dash thy foot.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid;</div><div class="po2">Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Be not afraid of sudden terror,</div><div class="po2">Neither of the destruction of the wicked, when it cometh;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For the LORD will be thy confidence,</div><div class="po2">And will keep thy foot from being caught.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Withhold not good from him to whom it is due,</div><div class="po2">When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Say not unto thy neighbour: ‘Go, and come again,</div><div class="po2">And to-morrow I will give’; when thou hast it by thee.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Devise not evil against thy neighbour,</div><div class="po2">Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Strive not with a man without cause,</div><div class="po2">If he have done thee no harm.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Envy thou not the man of violence,</div><div class="po2">And choose none of his ways.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD;</div><div class="po2">But His counsel is with the upright.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked;</div><div class="po2">But He blesseth the habitation of the righteous.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>If it concerneth the scorners, He scorneth them,</div><div class="po2">But unto the humble He giveth grace.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The wise shall inherit honour;</div><div class="po2">But as for the fools, they carry away shame.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../proverbs/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' 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