The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Solomon 01
1 Love righteousness, all you who are
judges of the earth. Think of the Lord†
with a good mind. Seek him in singleness
of heart,
2 because he is found by those who
don’t put him to the test,
and is manifested to those who trust
him.
3 for crooked thoughts separate from God.
His Power convicts when it is tested,
and exposes the foolish;
4 because wisdom will not enter into a soul
that devises evil, nor dwell in a body
that is enslaved bys in.
5 For a holy spirit of discipline will flee
deceit, and will departfrom thoughts that are
without understanding, and will be ashamed
when unrighteousness has come in.
6 For‡ wisdom is a spirit who loves man,
and she will not hold a§ blasphemer
guiltless for his lips, because God is
witness of his in most self, and is a
true overseer of his heart,
and a hearer of his tongue.
7 Because the spirit of the Lord has filled†
the world, and that which holds all things
together knows what is said.
8 Therefore no one who utters unrighteous
things will be unseen; neither will Justice,
when it convicts, pass him by.
9 For in his counsels the ungodly will be
searched out, and the sound of his words will come
to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;
10 because a jealous ear listens to allthings,
and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.
11 Beware then of unprofitable murmuring,
and keep your tongue from slander;
because no secret utterance will go on
its way void, and a lying mouth
destroys a soul.
12 Don’t court death in the error of your
life. Don’t draw destruction upon your selves
by the works of your hands;
13 because God didn’t make death, neither
does he delight when the living perish.
14 For he created all things that they might
have being. The generative powers of the world
are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction
in them, nor has Hades‡ royal dominion upon
earth;
15 for righteousness is immortal,
16 but ungodly men by their hands and
their words summon death;
deeming him a friend they§ pined
away. They made a covenant with him,
because they are worthy to belong
with him.