Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you.
Tie them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)

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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 A gossip goes around revealing a secret,
but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.(A)

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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 those who plan evil go astray?(A)
But those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.(B)

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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

Iniquity is atoned for by loyalty and faithfulness,(A)
and one turns from evil by the fear of the Lord.(B)

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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,(A)
and a brother is born for a difficult time.

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

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22 What is desirable in a person is his fidelity;
better to be a poor person than a liar.(A)

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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 a person proclaims his own loyalty,
but who can find a trustworthy person?(A)

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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 Loyalty and faithfulness guard a king;
through loyalty he maintains his throne.

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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 observe my ways.
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit,(A)
and a wayward woman is a narrow well;
28 indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber(B)
and increases the number of unfaithful people.

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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 To those who send him, a trustworthy envoy
is like the coolness of snow on a harvest day;
he refreshes the life of his masters.(A)

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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 Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult time
is like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.(A)

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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 person will have many blessings,(A)
but one in a hurry to get rich(B)
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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