Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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People Who Deserve Praise
1 There are three things in
which I take special delight—
things that are beautiful to the Lord
and man alike: note
brothers who get along with each other,
neighbors who are friends,
and a married couple who are happy together.
2 There are three kinds of people I
cannot stand, whose behavior I find
highly offensive:
poor people who are arrogant,
rich people who lie,
and foolish old men who commit adultery.
3 Unless you learn what you can
while you are young, you will never
be wise when you reach old age.
4 Sound judgment, good advice, and
gray hair go together beautifully.
5 Wisdom, understanding, and sound
counsel are appropriate to the aged
and the respected.
6 Elderly people
wear the crown of long experience,
and they can boast of nothing finer
than their fear of the Lord.
7 I will tell you about ten kinds of
people that I feel fortunate to know,
especially fortunate in the case of
the tenth:
someone who takes pride in his children,
someone who lives to see his enemies fall,
8
a man fortunate enough to have an understanding wife,
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a married couple who are well-matched, note
a person who never speaks sinfully,
a person who doesn't have to work for someone less competent than himself,
9
someone fortunate enough to have a real friend, note
a person that people are happy to listen to,
10
and the really great one: someone who is wise.
But the greatest one of all is the person who fears the Lord.
11 Such a person has no equal, because
the fear of the Lord is the
most important thing in the world. note
Women
13 No wound is as serious as
wounded love. No troubles are as serious
as the troubles that women
cause.
14 No sufferings are worse
than the sufferings caused by people
who hate you. No revenge is worse
than revenge taken by an enemy.
15 No poison is deadlier than the poison
of a snake, and no anger is deadlier
than the anger of a woman. note
16 I would rather live in the same
house with a lion or a dragon than
with a bad wife.
17 When a wife is in
a bad mood, her expression changes
until she looks like an angry bear.
18 Her husband has to go and eat
with the neighbors, where he can't
hold back his bitter sighs.
19 Compared with the troubles
caused by a woman, any other trouble
looks small. May such women
suffer the fate of sinners!
20 A quiet man living with a nagging
wife is like an old man climbing
up a sandy hill.
21 Never lose your head over a
woman's beauty, and don't try to
win a woman because she is wealthy.
note
22 When a man is supported by
his wife, there is sure to be anger,
arrogance, and humiliation.
23 A bad
wife will make her husband gloomy
and depressed, and break his heart.
Show me a timid man who can never
make up his mind, and I will show
you a wife who doesn't make her
husband happy.
24 Sin began with a
woman, and we must all die because
of her.
25 Don't let a bad wife have
her way, any more than you would
allow water to leak from your cistern.
26 If she won't do as you tell
her, divorce her.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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