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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.
  1. For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood.
Proverbs 4.
  1. Get wisdom, get understanding, forget not, nor decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 8.
  1. When he set to the sea its bound, and the waters shall not pass his [a] decree.
  2. And blessed are they that keep my ways.
  3. Hear wisdom and be wise, and [b] be not strangers to it.
Proverbs 11.
  1. The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the overthrow of the rebellious shall spoil them.
  2. Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.

  3. [c]-- but at the destruction of the wicked there is exultation.
  4. At the blessing of the upright a city shall be exalted.
Proverbs 13.
  1. Righteousness preserves the simple in the way, but sin makes worthless the ungodly.
Proverbs 16. (Alex. 15.)
  1. 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]