Proverbs
February 1999
February 28, 1999 = = Prov 23:31-33
Do not look at wine when it exhibits a red color, when it gives off its sparkle in the cup, [when] it goes with a slickness.
At its end it bites just like a serpent, and it secretes poison just like a viper.
Your own eyes will see strange things, and your own heart will speak perverse things.
February 27, 1999 = = Prov 23:31-33
Do not look at wine when it exhibits a red color, when it gives off its sparkle in the cup, [when] it goes with a slickness.
At its end it bites just like a serpent, and it secretes poison just like a viper.
Your own eyes will see strange things, and your own heart will speak perverse things.
February 26, 1999 = = Prov 23:31-33
Do not look at wine when it exhibits a red color, when it gives off its sparkle in the cup, [when] it goes with a slickness.
At its end it bites just like a serpent, and it secretes poison just like a viper.
Your own eyes will see strange things, and your own heart will speak perverse things.
February 25, 1999 = = Prov 23:21
For a drunkard and a glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe one with mere rags.
February 24, 1999 = = Prov 23:20
Do not come to be among heavy drinkers of wine, among those who are gluttonous eaters of flesh.
February 23, 1999 = = Prov 22:16
He that is defrauding the lowly one to supply many things to himself, he also that is giving to the rich one, is surely destined for want.
February 22, 1999 = = Prov 20:30
Bruising wounds are what scours away the bad; and strokes, the innermost parts of the belly.
February 21, 1999 = = Prov 20:29
The beauty of young men is their power, and the splendor of old men is their gray-headedness.
February 20, 1999 = = Prov 20:28
Loving-kindness and trueness--they safeguard the king; and by loving-kindness he has sustained his throne.
February 19, 1999 = = Prov 20:27
The breath of earthling man is the lamp of Jehovah, carefully searching all the innermost parts of the belly.
February 18, 1999 = = Prov 20:26
A wise king is scattering wicked people, and he turns around upon them a wheel.
February 17, 1999 = = Prov 20:25
It is a snare when earthling man has rashly cried out, "Holy!" and after vows [he is disposed] to make examination.
February 16, 1999 = = Prov 20:24
From Jehovah are the steppings of an able-bodied man. As regards earthling man, how can he discern his way?
February 15, 1999 = = Prov 20:23
Two sorts of weights are something detestable to Jehovah, and a cheating pair of scales is not good.
February 14, 1999 = = Prov 20:22
Do not say: "I will pay back evil!" Hope in Jehovah, and he will save you.
February 13, 1999 = = Prov 20:21
An inheritance is being got by greed at first, but its own future will not be blessed.
February 12, 1999 = = Prov 20:20
As for anyone calling down evil upon his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished at the approach of darkness.
February 11, 1999 = = Prov 20:19
He that is going about as a slanderer is uncovering confidential talk; and with one that is enticed with his lips you must have no fellowship.
February 10, 1999 = = Prov 20:18
By counsel plans themselves are firmly established, and by skillful direction carry on your war.
February 09, 1999 = = Prov 20:17
Bread [gained by] falsehood is pleasurable to a man, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
February 08, 1999 = = Prov 20:16
Take one's garment, in case one has gone surety for a stranger; and in the instance of a foreign woman, seize from him a pledge.
February 07, 1999 = = Prov 20:15
There exists gold, also an abundance of corals; but the lips of knowledge are precious vessels.
February 06, 1999 = = Prov 20:14
"It is bad, bad!" says the buyer, and he is going his way. Then it is that he boasts about himself.
February 05, 1999 = = Prov 20:13
Do not love sleep, that you may not come to poverty. Open your eyes; be satisfied with bread.
February 04, 1999 = = Prov 20:12
The hearing ear and the seeing eye--Jehovah himself has made even both of them.
February 03, 1999 = = Prov 20:11
Even by his practices a boy makes himself recognized as to whether his activity is pure and upright.
February 02, 1999 = = Prov 20:10
Two sorts of weights and two sorts of ephah measures--they are both of them together something detestable to Jehovah.
February 01, 1999 = = Prov 20:9
Who can say: "I have cleansed my heart; I have become pure from my sin"?