Proverbs · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Proverbs 24 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:
1 Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;
2 Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.
2 for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.
3 By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.
3 Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
4 By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth.
4 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.
5 A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.
5 A wise man has great power. A knowledgeable man increases strength,
6 Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
6 for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors.
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
8 He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool.
8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
9 The thought of a fool is sin: and the detracter is the abomination of men.
9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
10 If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
10 If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
11 Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death forbear not to deliver.
11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
12 If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.
12 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 give to every man according to his work?
13 Fat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat:
13 My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
14 So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.
14 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.
15 Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
15 Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
16 For a just mall shall fall seven times and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.
16 for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
17 When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:
17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
18 Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
19 Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly:
19 Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;
20 For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
20 for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21 My son, fear the Lord and the king: and have nothing to do with detracters.
21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious,
22 For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
22 for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?
23 These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
23 These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
24 They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
24 He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
25 They that rebuke him, shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.
26 He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
26 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
27 Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
27 Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
28 Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
29 Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
29 Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
30 I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
31 And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
32 Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.
32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
33 Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest:
33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
34 And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
34 so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
Cross references (34)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 37:7; Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 3:31; James 4:5–6; Psalm 37:1
- 2 Psalm 7:14; Psalm 28:3; Psalm 10:7; Isaiah 59:4; Job 15:35
- 3 Proverbs 14:1; Proverbs 9:1; 1 Corinthians 3:9; Colossians 2:7; Jeremiah 10:12
- 4 Proverbs 15:6; Proverbs 21:20; Proverbs 20:15; Proverbs 8:21; Matthew 13:52
- 5 Ecclesiastes 7:19; Colossians 1:11; Isaiah 40:31; Proverbs 21:22; Proverbs 8:14
- 6 Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 20:18; Ephesians 6:10–20; Proverbs 15:22; Luke 14:31
- 7 Proverbs 14:6; Psalm 10:5; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Psalm 92:5–6; Amos 5:10
- 8 Psalm 21:11; Ezekiel 38:10–11; Romans 1:30; Nahum 1:11; Proverbs 6:14
- 9 Matthew 15:19; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Isaiah 55:7; Proverbs 29:8; Acts 8:22
- 10 Isaiah 40:28–31; Ephesians 3:13; Jeremiah 51:46; Hebrews 12:3–5; 1 Samuel 27:1
- 11 Psalm 82:4; Isaiah 58:6–7; 1 John 3:16–17; Job 29:17; Luke 10:31–32
- 12 Job 34:11; Jeremiah 17:10; Revelation 2:23; Romans 2:6; 1 Samuel 16:7
- 13 Isaiah 7:15; Song of Songs 5:1; Proverbs 25:16; Song of Songs 4:11; Matthew 3:4
- 14 James 1:25; Proverbs 2:10; Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:103; Proverbs 23:18
- 15 Jeremiah 11:19; Acts 9:24; 1 Samuel 22:18–19; 1 Samuel 9:11; Matthew 26:4
- 16 Psalm 34:19; Psalm 37:24; Micah 7:8–10; Job 5:19; 2 Corinthians 4:8–12
- 17 Obadiah 12; Job 31:29; 1 Corinthians 13:6–7; Proverbs 17:5; 2 Samuel 16:5–14
- 18 Lamentations 4:21–22; Zechariah 1:15–16
- 19 Proverbs 23:17; Psalm 37:1; Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 13:20; Proverbs 24:1
- 20 Proverbs 13:9; Job 18:5–6; Job 21:17; Psalm 11:6; Proverbs 20:20
- 21 Romans 13:1–7; 1 Peter 2:13–17; Titus 3:1; 1 Kings 12:16; Exodus 14:31
- 22 Numbers 16:31–35; Psalm 90:11; 2 Samuel 18:7–8; Hosea 5:11; 2 Chronicles 13:16–17
- 23 Proverbs 28:21; Proverbs 18:5; James 3:17; Leviticus 19:15; Psalm 107:43
- 24 Proverbs 17:15; Isaiah 5:23; Proverbs 11:26; Exodus 23:6–7; Proverbs 28:27
- 25 1 Timothy 5:20; 1 Samuel 3:13; Proverbs 28:23; Nehemiah 13:8–11; 1 Kings 21:19–20
- 26 Proverbs 15:23; Genesis 41:38–57; Proverbs 25:11–12; Job 6:25; Proverbs 16:1
- 27 Luke 14:28–30; 1 Kings 5:17–18; 1 Kings 6:7
- 28 Ephesians 4:25; Matthew 26:59–60; Proverbs 25:18; 1 Kings 21:9–13; Colossians 3:9
- 29 Romans 12:17–21; Proverbs 20:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; Matthew 5:39–44; Proverbs 25:21–22
- 30 Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 6:6–19; Ecclesiastes 8:9–11; Job 4:8; Proverbs 10:13
- 31 Isaiah 5:5; Ecclesiastes 10:18; Genesis 3:17–19; Jeremiah 4:3; Proverbs 22:13
- 32 1 Corinthians 10:11; Deuteronomy 21:21; Luke 2:51; 1 Corinthians 10:6; Job 7:17
- 33 Proverbs 6:4–11; 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8; Romans 13:11; Ephesians 5:14
- 34 Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 13:4
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
On this account it is often put for all numbers together, as, "A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again," --that is, let him fall never so often, he will not perish (and this was meant to be understood not of sins, but of afflictions conducing to lowliness).
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For no other reason it was said, "a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again:" that is, the just man perisheth not, though brought low in every way, yet not induced to transgress, otherwise he will not be just.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But "God strengtheneth." For "the just falleth seven times, and riseth again; but the wicked shall be weakened in evils." When evils befall the wicked, they are weakened thereby; when evils befall the righteous, "the Lord strengtheneth all that are falling."..."And lifteth up all those that have been cast down:" all, that is, who belong to him; for "God resisteth …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)