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THE

HOLY SCRIPTURES

OF THE

OLD COVENANT.

VOLUME III.

THE

HOLY SCRIPTURES

OF THE

OLD COVENANT,

IN

A REVISED TRANSLATION,

BY

THE LATE REV. CHARLES WELLBELOVED,

THE REV. GEORGE VANCE SMITH, B.A.,

THE REV. JOHN SCOTT PORTER.

VOLUME III.

CONTAINING

THE BOOKS OF PROVERBS AND ECCLESIASTES, BY THE
LATE REV. CHARLES WELLBELOVED;

THE BOOKS OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND THE LAMENTA-
TIONS, BY THE REV. G. VANCE SMITH, B.A.;

THE BOOKS OF EZEKIEL AND DANIEL, BY THE REV. J. SCOTT
PORTER;

THE MINOR PROPHETS, BY THE LATE REV. CHARLES WELL-
BELOVED.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

M.DCCC.LXII.

100. t. 113.

It is proper to inform the readers of this volume, that the late Rev. Charles Wellbeloved had made a memorandum at the end of his Translation of the Minor Prophets, that he considered it to be in various points susceptible of improvement, and that he hoped, if it were ever published, it would undergo revision. The editor has not scrupled to act upon the author's suggestion, wherever it appeared to him that the labours of subsequent critics had thrown new light on this portion of the sacred writings.

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THE BOOK OF PROVERBS.

SECT. I.

1 CHAP. I. The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, King

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of Israel;

For knowing wisdom and instruction;

For discerning the words of discretion;

For receiving the instruction of wisdom,

Of righteousness, and judgment, and uprightness;
For giving prudence to the simple,

To the young man knowledge and consideration.

5 A wise man will hear and will learn more;

And an intelligent man will gain counsel;

6 So as to understand a proverb and an obscure word, The words of the wise and their dark sayings.

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The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge:
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father,

And forsake not the law of thy mother;

For a graceful wreath will they be to thy head,
And chains about thy neck.

My son, if sinners entice thee,

Consent thou not.

If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us lay snares for those who are innocent in vain ;

Let us swallow them up alive, as the grave,

And whole, as those who go down to the pit;

All precious wealth we shall find;

We shall fill our houses with spoil;

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