Proverbs 8. 5 -- It is frequently the case in Proverbs that
a!kakoj
is used in a bad sense,
and panou~rgoj
in a good one. For a!kakoj see
chap. 1. 4, 22; 8. 5; 14. 15; 21. 11. For
panou~rgoj,
12. 16; 13. 1, 16; 14. 8, 15, 18; 15. 5; 21. 11; 22. 3; 27. 12; 28. 2.
The following passages are supplied from the Alexandrine
Text.
Proverbs 1.
- For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed
blood.
Proverbs 4.
- Get wisdom, get understanding, forget not, nor decline
from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 8.
- When he set to the sea its bound, and the waters shall
not pass his [a] decree.
- And blessed are they that keep my ways.
- Hear wisdom and be wise, and [b] be not strangers to it.
Proverbs 11.
- The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the
overthrow of the rebellious shall spoil them.
- Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness
will deliver from death.
- [c]--
but at the destruction of the wicked there is exultation.
- At the blessing of the upright a city shall be exalted.
Proverbs 13.
- Righteousness preserves the simple in the way, but sin
makes worthless the ungodly.
Proverbs 16. (Alex. 15.)
- The humble advances in glory.
Proverbs 21.
Verses 16, 17, see Appendix. Note on II. Kings (II. Sam.) 5. 18.
[a] Gr. mouth.
[b] More lit., do not separate
yourselves from it.
[c] Part of verse 10.
[English translation of the Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee
Brenton (1807-1862) originally published by Samuel Bagster & Sons,
Ltd., London, 1851]