Bible Verses About Proverbs

And a man thence answereth and saith, `And who is their father?' therefore it hath been for a simile, `Is Saul also among the prophets?'

as saith the simile of the ancients, From the wicked goeth out wickedness, and my hand is not on thee.

`After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? --after a dead dog! after one flea!

And it is displeasing to Abner exceedingly, because of the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he saith, `The head of a dog am I--that in reference to Judah to-day I do kindness with the house of Saul thy father, unto his brethren, and unto his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David--that thou chargest against me iniquity concerning the woman to-day?

and she speaketh, saying, `They spake often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished.

And the king of Israel answereth and saith, `Speak ye: let not him who is girding on boast himself as him who is loosing his armour .'

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,

For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,

For giving to simple ones--prudence, To a youth--knowledge and discretion.

Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

Also these are Proverbs of Solomon, that men of Hezekiah king of Judah transcribed: --

In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

`Son of man, what is this simile to you, concerning the land of Israel, saying, Prolonged are the days, and perished hath every vision?

therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have caused this simile to cease, And they use it not as a simile again in Israel, But speak to them: Drawn near have the days, And spoken hath every vision.

Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother--her daughter!

`What--to you, ye--using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?

I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Ye have no more the use of this simile in Israel.

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son--they are Mine, The soul that is sinning--it doth die.

And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

`Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.

And he said unto them, `Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;'

for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

`The salt is good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'