New American Standard Bible 2020

Proverbs 25:15-23

15Through 1 2patience a ruler may be persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks bone.16Have you 3found honey? Eat only 4what you need, So that you do not have it in excess and vomit it.17Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house, Or he will become 5weary of you and hate you.18Like a club, a 6sword, and a sharp 7arrow Is a person who gives 8false testimony against his neighbor.19Like a bad tooth and 9an unsteady foot Is confidence in a 10treacherous person in time of trouble.20Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar on 11soda, Is one who sings songs to 12a troubled heart.21 13If 14your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;22For you will 15heap burning coals on his head, And 16the Lord will reward you.23The north wind brings rain, And a 17 18gossiping tongue brings an angry face.

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Notes

1. Proverbs 25:15 Lit length of anger ↩
2. Proverbs 25:15 Gen 32:4; 1 Sam 25:24; Eccl 10:4 ↩
3. Proverbs 25:16 Judg 14:8; 1 Sam 14:25 ↩
4. Proverbs 25:16 Lit your sufficiency ↩
5. Proverbs 25:17 Lit surfeited with ↩
6. Proverbs 25:18 Ps 57:4; Prov 12:18 ↩
7. Proverbs 25:18 Jer 9:8 ↩
8. Proverbs 25:18 Ex 20:16; Prov 24:28 ↩
9. Proverbs 25:19 Lit a slipping foot ↩
10. Proverbs 25:19 Job 6:15; Is 36:6 ↩
11. Proverbs 25:20 I.e., natron ↩
12. Proverbs 25:20 Lit an evil ↩
13. Proverbs 25:21 Ex 23:4, 5; 2 Kin 6:22; 2 Chr 28:15; Matt 5:44; Rom 12:20 ↩
14. Proverbs 25:21 Lit one who hates you ↩
15. Proverbs 25:22 Lit snatch up ↩
16. Proverbs 25:22 2 Sam 16:12; Matt 6:4, 6 ↩
17. Proverbs 25:23 Lit tongue of secrecy ↩
18. Proverbs 25:23 Ps 101:5 ↩

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