¹⁶ The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

³ The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

¹⁷ A highway of the upright `is', `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

¹⁴ O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

⁹ A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth `is' folly, And the latter end of his mouth `Is' mischievous madness.

¹⁷ For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

¹⁸ for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

¹⁹ and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

²⁴ And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

²⁵ and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'

⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'

²² from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

⁶ In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

¹⁸ And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

² and Jezebel sendeth a messenger unto Elijah, saying, `Thus doth the gods, and thus do they add, surely about this time to-morrow, I make thy life as the life of one of them.'

¹⁰ And Ben-Hadad sendeth unto him, and saith, `Thus do the gods to me, and thus do they add, if the dust of Samaria suffice for handfuls for all the people who `are' at my feet.'

¹¹ And the king of Israel answereth and saith, `Speak ye: let not him who is girding on boast himself as him who is loosing `his armour'.'

¹⁸ And he saith, `If for peace they have come out -- catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out -- alive catch them.'

¹⁵ the former governors who `are' before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.

²⁸ And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court,

²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

²³ For a dread unto me `is' calamity `from' God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

¹⁴ Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

¹²⁰ Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!

⁹ And Esau saith, `I have abundance, my brother, let it be to thyself that which thou hast.'