Proverbs 17:2

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Of Damascus: “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”

Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”