King James Version · The united kingdom
Proverbs 6
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My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a , Thou art snared with the words of thy , thou art taken with the words of thy . Do this now, my son, and thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be : Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 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. A naughty person, a man, walketh with a froward . He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in , he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. These six things doth hate: yea, seven are an unto him: A proud look, a lying , and hands that , An that deviseth imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. My son, keep thy ’s , and forsake not of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine , and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the is a lamp; and is ; and reproofs of are of life: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of of a strange woman. not after her beauty in thine ; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take , and his clothes not be burned? 28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his when he is hungry; But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. But whoso committeth with a woman lacketh : he that doeth it destroyeth his own . A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his shall not be wiped away. For is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of . He will not regard any ; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
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.