• Pro 1:12 - a/r: THE GRAVE, Hebrew: Sheol
• Pro 1:28 - c/m: EARLY: earnestly
• Pro 1:32 - c/m: TURNING AWAY: backsliding

• Pro 2:6
• Dan 2:20-23
• Pro 2:7
• Psa 7:11
• Pro 2:12 - a/r: FROWARD or: perverse
• Pro 2:14 - a/r: FROWARDNESS or: perverseness
• Pro 2:15 - a/r: FROWARD or: perverse

• Pro 3:5
• S&H 1:11
• S&H 20:20
• Mis 25:25-27
• Mis 297:28-2
• My 129:28-29 Trust
• Pro 3:5-6
• '01 34:26
• My 161:26
• Pro 3:6
• S&H 166:16 To
• Mis 117:27
• Mis 157:2
• Mis 175:32
• Peo 12:5-14
• Pro 3:7
• Isa 5:21
• Pro 3:10 - c/m: PRESSES: vats
• Pro 3:11,12
• Heb 12:5,6
• Pro 3:32 - c/m: FROWARD: perverse
• Pro 3:32 - c/m: SECRET: counsel
• Pro 3:34
• Jas 4:6
• 1Pe 5:5

• Pro 4:7
• My 60:18
• Pro 4:18
• S&H 496:13
• S&H 562:20
• Pro 4:24 - a/r: FROWARD or: wayward

• Pro 5:2 - a/r: REGARD or: preserve
• Pro 5:5 - a/r: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol
• Pro 5:5
• Mis 348:15

• Pro 6:8 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Pro 6:12 - c/m: FROWARD: perverse
• Pro 6:14 - c/m: FROWARDNESS: perverseness
• Pro 6:32 - ADULTERY
• To explore biblical and other teachings regarding "Adultery," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/adultery.htm.

• Pro 7:19 - c/m: GOODMAN: my husband
• Pro 7:27 - a/r: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol

• Pro 8:1 - KJV wording: CRY - modern translation: cry out (or: call out)
• Pro 8:4 - KJV wording: UNTO YOU, O MEN, I CALL; AND MY VOICE IS TO THE SONS OF MAN - modern translation: I appeal to all of you; I call to everyone on earth. {TEV}
• Pro 8:8 - KJV wording: FROWARD - modern translation: crooked
• Pro 8:10 - KJV wording: RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION, AND NOT SILVER - modern translation: choose my instruction rather than silver
• Pro 8:11 - KJV wording: ARE NOT - modern translation: cannot
• Pro 8:13 - KJV wording: FROWARD: perverse
• Pro 8:17 - KJV wording: EARLY - modern translation: earnestly
• Pro 8:20 - KJV wording: I LEAD - modern translation: I walk
• Pro 8:20 - KJV wording: IN THE MIDST OF THE PATHS OF  - modern translation: in the paths of
• Pro 8:20 - KJV wording: JUDGMENT - modern translation: justice
• Pro 8:21 - KJV wording: substance <03426> - modern translation: wealth <03426> [RSV, NASV, NRSV, TEV]
  • Hebrew: yesh <03426>. This word is explained by Brown, Driver, and Briggs (Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, London: Oxford, 1978, page 441) as meaning, "substance, being, existence". This is the only instance in the Old Testament where the Hebrew word yesh is used as a noun and the only instance where it is translated in the Old Testament as "substance." In the KJV all other instances of the English word substance are translations from other Hebrew words, all of which which have different meanings.
  • William McKane (Old Testament Library: Proverbs, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970, p. 350) comments:

    [17-21] ...As for the gifts which she [Wisdom] bestows or bequeathes (lehanhil, v. 21), these include material prosperity, which, however, as in vv. 10f, is distinguished from vulgar opulence. The fruit of Wisdom is better than gold and her produce better than silver. What she offers is wealth or property (yes, v. 21) with kabod and sedaqa. This is not meretricious or speculative wealth; it is located in a framework of values and is an ingredient of a way of life which bestows gravitas and social wholeness. Hence wealth with kabod is solid wealth or wealth with a basis in a traditional evaluation of what constitutes the good life (hon 'ateq, v. 18). The paradox is that when wealth is the chief end of life it corrupts, whereas when it is subordinated to wisdom it may be enjoyed as an aspect of welfare and honour... What Wisdom gives essentially is a way of life which possesses ethical fitness and equity (v. 20).

• Pro 8:27 - KJV wording: COMPASS - modern translation: circle

• Pro 9:9
• S&H 443:-1
• Pro 9:10 - a/r: THE HOLY or: the Holy One
• Pro 9:15 - c/m: PASSENGERS: to those passing
• Pro 9:18 - a/r: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol

• Pro 10:22 - he addeth <03254> no <03808> sorrow <06089> with it
• NRSV translates: "and he adds no sorrow with it."
• Anchor Bible (Proverbs Ecclesiastes, by R.B.Y. Scott, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965, page 82) translates: "And painful toil can add no more."
• TEV translates: "Hard work can make you no richer."
• William McKane (Proverbs, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, Old Testament Library, 1970, page 422) comments that verse 22:
• ...Describes a kind of wealth that has no degree of trouble or vexation in it and is a material expression of Yahweh's [Jehovah's, the Lord's] blessing... The sentence is saying much the same kind of thing as v.2 Wealth without alloy of trouble derives from the righteousness and Yahweh's blessing.
• Pro 10:31 - a/r: FROWARD or: perverse
• Pro 10:32 - a/r: FROWARDNESS or: perverseness

• Pro 11:11
• Mis 353:31
• Pro 11:21
• Mis 281:29
• Pro 11:31
• 1Pe 4:18
• Pro 11:20 - c/m: FROWARD: perverse
• Pro 11:26 - c/m: CORN: grain
• Pro 11:30
• Pro 3:18

• Pro 12:28

• Note: There are considerable differences among Old Testament Hebrew scholars as to the translation and/or reconstruction of this verse as it is read in Hebrew. Here are several translations by three notable commentaries:

  "Upon the way of righteousness <is> life, indeed, <it is> a well-constructed road without death." (Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, Volume 3, Stuttgart: United Bible Societies, 1977, page 485)

  "In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of folly leads to death." (William McKane, The Old Testament Library: Proverbs, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970, page 230, see also pages 450-452)

  "On the road of righteousness there is life, and the treading of its path is deathlessness." (R.B.Y.Scott, The Anchor Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiates, Garden City, New York: 1965, page 91)

• Pro 13:13
• Mis 213:9
• Pro 13:14
• Psa 36:9
• Pro 14:27
• Pro 16:22
• Pro 13:15
• Mis 261:14
• Pro 13:23 - c/m: JUDGMENT: by reason of injustice
• Pro 13:24 - c/m: BETIMES: early

• Pro 14:27
• Psa 36:9
• Pro 13:14
• Pro 16:22

• Pro 15:1
• Man 41:9
• Pro 15:11 - a/r: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol
• Pro 15:24 - a/r: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol

• Pro 16:3 - COMMIT {Hebrew literally: roll}
• Pro 16:3 - a/r: WORKS or: doings (or: actions)
• Pro 16:3 - a/r: THOUGHTS or: plans
• Pro 16:4 - THE LORD MADE EVERYTHING
• [To explore additional references in the Bible and other writings, browse "GOD MADE THEM ALL" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/g.htm.]
• Pro 16:20 - a/r: SHALL FIND GOOD or: will prosper
• Pro 16:22
• Psa 36:9
• Pro 13:14
• Pro 14:27
• Pro 16:28 - c/m: FROWARD: perverse
• Pro 16:30 - c/m: FROWARD: perverse
• Pro 16:32
• Mis 223:25
• My 195:10

• Pro 17:9 - c/m: REPEATETH: harpeth on
• Pro 17:20 - c/m: FROWARD: crooked
• Pro 17:20 - c/m: FROWARD: perverse

• Pro 18:1 - c/m: INTERMEDDLETH: quarrelleth
• Pro 18:2 - c/m: DISCOVER(ED)(ETH)(ING): reveal
• Pro 18:9 - c/m: WASTER: destroyer

• Pro 19:10 - c/m: DELIGHT: delicate living
• Pro 19:19
• Mis 152:3
• Mis 203:9
• Pro 19:23 - FEAR OF THE LORD {In the KJV Bible, there are 68 references to this phrase.}

• Pro 20:12
• For additional references, browse "EARS BUT NOT HEAR, EYES BUT NOT SEE" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/e.htm.
• Pro 20:30 - a/r: THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND CLEANSETH AWAY EVIL: SO DO STRIPES THE INWARD PARTS OF THE BELLY. or: Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; and stokes reach the innermost parts.

• Pro 21:7 - c/m: ROBBERY: violence
• Pro 21:8 - a/r: THE WAY OF MAN IS FROWARD AND STRANGE or: The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked;
• Pro 21:15 - c/m: JUDGMENT: justice
• Pro 21:24 - a/r: PROUD AND HAUGHTY SCORNER IS HIS NAME, or: The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name;

• Pro 22:2 - The Lord is the maker of them all
• To explore additional references in the Bible and other writings, browse "GOD MADE THEM ALL" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/g.htm.
• Pro 22:5 - a/r: FROWARD or: perverse
• Pro 22:9 - a/r: BOUNTIFUL, Hebrew or: good
• Pro 22:20 - a/r: EXCELLENT THINGS or: thirty sayings
• Pro 22:29 - a/r: MEAN or: obscure

• Pro 23:3 - a/r: MEAT or: food
• Pro 23:4,5 - KJV wording: that which is not - NRSV wording: it - contextual meaning: wealth
  • The full text of this "Seventh" of Proverbs' thirty wise sayings (see Pro 22:17-21) is:

    4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist. 5 When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven. (NRSV)

  • William McKane (The Old Testament Library: Proverbs, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977, page 382) comments:

  'Do not wear yourself out making wealth' is close to 'Cast not thy heart in pursuit of riches', and 'It takes to itself wings, like an eagle it flies heavenwards' to 'They have made themnselves wings like geese and are flown away to the heavens' (with a change of similes)... There is an appeal to intellectual discrimination (bina), rather than to a theological concept of order which allots to a man his place under the sun and sets limits to his self-assertiveness. The man who clarifies his thoughts will realize the futility of waring himself out in the effort to get rich, because wealth is fickle and unpredictable; it is here today and gone tomorrow, and then it is as unattainable and as hopelessless distant as the eagle which has soared towards the heavens.

  • See also "Wealth and Poverty" (topical index with links to many online articles/resources) at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/substance.htm.
• Pro 23:7
• S&H 89:13
• S&H 213:4
• S&H 383:28
• Mis 70:7
• Peo 3:2
• Pro 23:14 - a/r: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol
• Pro 23:27
• S&H 362:6

• Pro 24:11 - a/r: IF THOU FORBEAR TO DELIVER THEM THAT ARE DRAWN UNTO DEATH or: Deliver them that are carried away unto death
• Pro 24:34 - c/m: ONE THAT TRAVELETH: a robber

• Pro 25:11
• Mis 346:23
• Pro 25:18 - c/m: MAUIL: club
• Pro 25:21,22
• Rom 12:20

• Pro 26:4
• '01 11:26
• Mis 347:1
• Pro 26:11
• 2Pe 2:22
• Pro 26:22 - c/m: WOUNDS: dainty morsels
• Pro 26:26
• My 42:2

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• Pro 28:13 - confession of sins
  • To explore additional references in the Bible and other writings, browse "Confessing of sins" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/c.htm.
• To further explore "confession" in the context of the Lord's Prayer, browse "(2.d.1.) "Confess... and forsake... sins" at http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/prayer2.htm#2d1.
• Pro 28:15 - c/m: RANGING: roaming
• Pro 28:16
• Exo 18:21
• Psa 119:36
• Mar 7:22
• Luk 12:15
• Rom 1:29
• Eph 5:3
• Col 3:5
• 1Th 2:5
• Heb 13:5
• 2Pe 2:3
• Mis 19:2
• Pro 28:17 - c/m: STAY: uphold
• Pro 28:20
• Pro 13:11
• Pro 28:21 - a/r: FOR, FOR A PIECE OF BREAD THAT MAN WILL TRANSGRESS or: and for a piece of bread man will transgress

• Pro 29:21 - c/m: LENGTH: last
• Pro 29:24 - c/m: BEWRAYETH: revealeth

• Pro 30:4
• S&H 192:18
• Pro 30:8 - c/m: CONVENIENT: needful
• Pro 30:8 - c/m: VANITY: falsehood
• Pro 30:10 - c/m: ACCUSE: slander
• Pro 30:15 - c/m: HORSELEECH: leech
• Pro 30:22 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Pro 30:25 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Pro 30:29 - c/m: COMELY: stately

• Pro 31:10 - KJV wording: woman - ESV, NAB, NASB, NRSV, REB, TEV translation: wife
• The Hebrew word is ishshah, which can mean woman, wife, or female. Considering the context of the entire passage, Ecc 31:10-31,with references to her husband in verses 11, 23, and 28, wife appears to be the intended meaning, which is how virtually all modern translations interpret it.
• Pro 31:10 - a/r: PRICE or: value (or: worth)
• Pro 31:11 - c/m: NEED OF SPOIL: lack of gain
• Pro 31:15 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Pro 31:20 - a/r: STRETCHETH OUT HER HAND {Hebrew literally: opens her palm}
• Pro 31:20 - a/r: REACHETH FORTH or: extends
• Pro 31:25 - a/r: HONOR or: dignity
• Pro 31:25- a/r: REJOICE IN TIME TO COME or: laugh at the future (or: have no fear of the future)
• Pro 31:26 - a/r: IN WISDOM or: with wisdom