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Proverbs

1. 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
2. 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
3. 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
4. 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
5. 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
6. 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
7. 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
8. 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
9. 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
10. 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
11. 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
12. 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
13. 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
14. 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
15. 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
16. 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
17. 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
18. 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
19. 10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
20. 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
21. 10:25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
22. 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
23. 11:19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
24. 11:20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
25. 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
26. 11:28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
27. 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
28. 15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
29. 16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
30. 16:15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
31. 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
32. 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
33. 17:8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
34. 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
35. 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
36. 18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
37. 18:11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
38. 19:12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
39. 19:24 A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
40. 20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
41. 20:19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
42. 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
43. 21:8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
44. 21:29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
45. 23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
46. 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
47. 23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
48. 23:34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
49. 24:29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
50. 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.