The Koine Bible

Because of gain many sinned, and one who seeks to increase will turn away an eye.

Between the joints of stones a peg will be fixed, and between selling and buying sin will be crushed

If he does not hold fast in fear of the Lord with diligence, his house will quickly be overthrown.

In the shaking of a sieve dung remains; so the refuse of a man in his reasoning.

The furnace tests the vessels of a potter, and the test of a man is in his reasoning.

The fruit of the tree shows the orchard; so a word of the thought of a man’s heart.

Before reasoning, do not praise a man, for this is a testing of men.

If you pursue the just, you will seize it and put it on like a robe of glory

Birds will settle with their like, and truth will return to those who practice it.

A lion lies in wait for prey; so sin for those who work injustice.

The discourse of the devout is wisdom at all times, but the fool is changed like the moon.

Amid the senseless keep a time, but amid those who reflect persist continually

The conversation of fools is an abomination, and their laughter is in the excess of sin.

The speech of a siege works will raise up hairs, and their battle is a blocking of the ears

The spilling of blood is the strife of the proud, and their reviling is an evil report.

He who reveals mysteries has destroyed faithfulness and will by no means find a friend for his soul.

Love a friend and be trusted with him; but if you reveal his secrets, do not pursue after him.

For as a man has lost his dead, so you have lost the friendship of your neighbor.

And as a bird from your hand you let go, so you let go the neighbor, and you will not hunt him.

Do not pursue him, because he has stood far off and has fled like a gazelle from a snare.

For it is a wound to bind up, and there is reconciliation of reproaches, but he who has uncovered mysteries has made hopeless

He who makes signs with the eye devises evils, and no one will turn them away from him.

In the presence of your eyes his mouth will be sweet, and at your words he will marvel; but afterward he will twist his mouth and in your words he will give offense

Many things I have hated, and I have not equaled him to it, and the Lord will hate him

He who throws a stone upward throws it upon his own head, and a treacherous blow will divide wounds.

The one digging a pit will fall into it, and the one setting a trap will be caught in it.

He who does evil will roll upon him, and he will by no means know from where it has come to him.

Mockery and reproach for the proud one, and vengeance will lie in wait for him like a lion.

Those who rejoice at the fall of the pious will be caught in a snare, and pain will consume them before their death.

Wrath and anger, and these are abominations, and a sinful man will be master of them