Wise Sayings of Solomon

10 The proverbs of ^(A)Solomon:

²⁰ Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord.

⁹ yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—

¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

⁹ Now therefore, ^(A)do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but ^(B)bring his gray hair down to the grave with blood.”

David’s Instructions to Solomon

2 Now ^(A)the days of David drew near that he should die, and he ^[a]charged Solomon his son, saying: ^2 (B)“I go the way of all the earth; ^(C)be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man. ³ And keep the charge of the Lord your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may ^(D)prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;