King James Version · The united kingdom
Proverbs 24
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither to be with them. For their studieth , and their talk of mischief. Through is an house builded; and by it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. For by thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety. is too high for a fool: he openeth not his in the . He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. The thought of foolishness is : and the scorner is an to men. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou forbear to them that are drawn unto , and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth consider it? and he that keepeth thy , doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works? My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: So shall the knowledge of be unto thy : when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy shall not . Lay not wait, O man, against the dwelling of ; spoil not his : For a man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but shall fall into mischief. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine be glad when he stumbleth: Lest see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his from him. Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at ; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of shall be put out. My son, fear thou and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the of them both? These things also belong to . It is not good to have respect of persons in . He that saith unto , Thou art ; him shall the people , nations shall abhor him: But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good shall come upon them. Every man shall kiss his that giveth a right answer. Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy . Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the of the man void of ; And, lo, it was all grown over with , and nettles had covered the thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received . Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · The united kingdom, 1050 BC to 931 BC ›
Saul, David, and Solomon. A rare window when both Egypt and Mesopotamia are weak, which is how a small kingdom in the corridor between them could briefly become a regional power.
- The power vacuum
- This is the whole political explanation for the united kingdom. Egypt is fragmented, Assyria is recovering but still local, the Hittites are gone, and nobody is in a position to object to a strong state in the corridor. It lasts about a century, and Israel's golden age fits exactly inside it.
- Phoenicia
- Tyre under Hiram is the commercial power of the coast, and supplies the cedar, the craftsmen, and the shipping for Solomon's building programme. The alliance is trade, not charity: Israel had grain and a land route, Tyre had timber and ships.
- Egypt
- Weak enough that a pharaoh gives a daughter in marriage to an Israelite king, which is the opposite of Egyptian practice in stronger centuries. Late in the era it recovers under a new house, and Shishak will invade within five years of Solomon's death.
- Further afield
- Greece is still in its dark age but beginning to recover, and will adopt the Phoenician alphabet within a century or two. Carthage is founded by settlers from Tyre by tradition in 814 BC. In the Americas the Olmec centre shifts to La Venta.