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Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
    Bind them around your neck.
    Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Let not (A)steadfast love and (B)faithfulness forsake you;
    (C)bind them around your neck;
    (D)write them on the tablet of your heart.

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13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
    but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

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13 Whoever (A)goes about slandering reveals secrets,
    but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.

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22 Don’t they go astray who plot evil?
    But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

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22 Do they not go astray who (A)devise evil?
    Those who devise good meet[a] (B)steadfast love and faithfulness.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:22 Or show

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for.
    By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

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By (A)steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
    and by (B)the fear of the Lord one (C)turns away from evil.

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17 A friend loves at all times;
    and a brother is born for adversity.

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17 (A)A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for adversity.

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22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness.
    A poor man is better than a liar.

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22 What is desired in a man is steadfast love,
    and a poor man is better than a liar.

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Many men claim to be men of unfailing love,
    but who can find a faithful man?

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Many a man (A)proclaims his own steadfast love,
    but (B)a faithful man who can find?

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28 Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
    His throne is sustained by love.

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28 (A)Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king,
    and by steadfast love his (B)throne is upheld.

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26 My son, give me your heart;
    and let your eyes keep in my ways.
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;
    and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,
    and increases the unfaithful among men.

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26 My son, give me your heart,
    and let your eyes observe[a] my ways.
27 For a prostitute is (A)a deep pit;
    (B)an adulteress[b] is a narrow (C)well.
28 (D)She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the traitors among mankind.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:26 Or delight in
  2. Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman

13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,
    so is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
    for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
    is (A)a faithful messenger to those who send him;
    he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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19 Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble
    is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.

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19 Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble
    is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

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20 A faithful man is rich with blessings;
    but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

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20 A faithful man will abound with blessings,
    but whoever hastens to be rich (A)will not go unpunished.

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