Proverbs 16:29

The Scriptures 1998

A ruthless man entices his neighbour, And leads him in a way that is not good,

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because he was a hireling – that I should be afraid, and do so, and shall sin, and so they could give me an evil name, to reproach me.

The defiled one destroys his neighbour with his mouth, But the righteous is delivered by knowledge.

The righteous is a guide to his neighbour, But the way of the wrong leads them astray.

A perverse man sends forth strife, And a whisperer separates intimate friends.

Winking with his eye to plot perversity, Moving his lips he shall bring about evil.

Do not envy a cruel man, And choose none of his ways;

You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless,

And Sha’ul sent messengers to Dawiḏ

Sha’ul then said to Miḵ