Proverbs 12:26
Modern English Version
26 The righteous is a guide to his neighbors,
but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 12:26
Authorized (King James) Version
26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour:
but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 13:20
Modern English Version
20 He who walks with wise men will be wise,
but a companion of fools will be destroyed.
Proverbs 13:20
Authorized (King James) Version
20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise:
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 14:7
Modern English Version
7 Go from the presence of a foolish man,
when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs 14:7
Authorized (King James) Version
7 Go from the presence of a foolish man,
when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs 17:17
Modern English Version
17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
Authorized (King James) Version
17 A friend loveth at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24
Modern English Version
24 A man who has friends must show himself friendly,
and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
Authorized (King James) Version
24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly:
and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 24:1-2
Modern English Version
Saying Twenty
24 Do not be envious against evil men,
nor desire to be with them;
2 for their heart studies destruction,
and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs 24:1-2
Authorized (King James) Version
24 Be not thou envious against evil men,
neither desire to be with them.
2 For their heart studieth destruction,
and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs 25:16-17
Modern English Version
16 Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is sufficient for you,
lest you be filled with it and vomit it.
17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house,
lest he be weary of you and so hate you.
Proverbs 25:16-17
Authorized (King James) Version
16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,
lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house;
lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
Proverbs 27:8-10
Modern English Version
8 As a bird that wanders from her nest,
so is a man who wanders from his place.
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart,
so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 27:8-10
Authorized (King James) Version
8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest,
so is a man that wandereth from his place.
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:
so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 29:24
Modern English Version
24 Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own soul;
he hears the oath but tells nothing.
Proverbs 29:24
Authorized (King James) Version
24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul:
he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
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