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"A nod to the wise is sufficient; the fool requires a blow." (Proverbs 22:15) "He who honors them that despise him is like an ass." "A fire, when it is kindled, burns many sheaves" (James 3:5) "An old woman in the house is a good omen in the house" "Even a good surety has to be applied to for a hundred morrows; a bad one for a hundred thousand."
The most complete text of the Instruction of Amenemope is British Museum Papyrus 10474, acquired in Thebes by E. A. Wallis Budge in early 1888. [1] [9] The scroll is approximately 12 feet (3.7 m) long by 10 inches (250 mm) wide; the obverse side contains the hieratic text of the Instruction, while the reverse side is filled with a miscellany of lesser texts, including a "Calendar of Lucky and ...
Proverbs 22 is the 22nd chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book probably ...
Proverbs 22:5 אטד ’āṭāḏ: Bramble: Rubus ulmifolius: Judges 9:15 רתם rōṯem: Broom: Calycotome villosa, Retama raetam or Spartium junceum: Psalm 120:4, 1 Kings 19:4 גמא gōme: Bulrush or Papyrus: Typha spp. Cyperus papyrus: Exodus 2:3, Job 40:21 (ABP and NETS) אביונה ’ăḇîyōnāh: Caper, Desire ...
Verses 1:1-7 constitute an introduction to the whole of this section. [12] Proverbs 10:1–22:16, with 375 sayings, consists of two parts, the first part (10–14) contrasting the wise man and the fool (or the righteous and the wicked), the second (15–22:16) addressing wise and foolish speech. [13]
Sermon 91: On Charity - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3; Sermon 92: On Zeal - Galatians 4:18; Sermon 93: On Redeeming the Time - Ephesians 5:1; Sermon 94: On Family Religion - Joshua 24:15; Sermon 95: On the Education of Children - Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child in the way wherein he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it."
The incorrigible nature of fools is further emphasised in Proverbs 27:22, "Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him." [5] In Proverbs, the "fool" represents a person lacking moral behavior or discipline, and the "wise" represents someone who behaves carefully and ...
Some resources for more complete information on the scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" [3] for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book [4] and the Leon Levy Collection, [5] both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for closer ...