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With understanding it is established.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>With knowledge its rooms are filled with every kind of riches, both precious and pleasant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>A strong man knows how to use his strength, but a person with knowledge is even more powerful.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>After all, with the right strategy you can wage war, and with many advisers there is victory.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Matters of wisdom are beyond the grasp of a stubborn fool. At the city gate he does not open his mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Whoever plans to do evil will be known as a schemer.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Foolish scheming is sinful, and a mocker is disgusting to everyone.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If you faint in a crisis, you are weak.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Rescue captives condemned to death, and spare those staggering toward their slaughter.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When you say, "We didn't know this," won't the one who weighs hearts take note of it? Won't the one who guards your soul know it? Won't he pay back people for what they do?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Eat honey, my son, because it is good. Honey that flows from the honeycomb tastes sweet.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The knowledge of wisdom is like that for your soul. If you find it, then there is a future, and your hope will never be cut off.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You wicked one, do not lie in ambush at the home of a righteous person. Do not rob his house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>A righteous person may fall seven times, but he gets up again. However, in a disaster wicked people fall.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do not be happy when your enemy falls, and do not feel glad when he stumbles.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The LORD will see it, he won't like it, and he will turn his anger away from that person.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Do not get overly upset with evildoers. Do not envy wicked people,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>because an evil person has no future, and the lamps of wicked people will be snuffed out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Fear the LORD, my son. Fear the king as well. Do not associate with those who always insist upon change,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>because disaster will come to them suddenly. Who knows what misery both may bring?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>These also are the sayings of wise people: Showing partiality as a judge is not good.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Whoever says to a guilty person, "You are innocent," will be cursed by people and condemned by nations.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But people will be pleased with those who convict a guilty person, and a great blessing will come to them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Giving a straight 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 things ready for yourself in the field. Afterwards, build your house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Do not testify against your neighbor without a reason, and do not deceive with your lips.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Do not say, "I'll treat him as he treated me. I'll pay him back for what he has done to me."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I passed by a lazy person's field, the vineyard belonging to a person without sense.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>I saw that it was all overgrown with thistles. The ground was covered with weeds, and its stone fence was torn down.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>When I observed [this], I took it to heart. I saw it and learned my lesson.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>"Just a little sleep, just a little slumber, just a little nap."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/24-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then your poverty will come like a drifter, and your need will come like a bandit.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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