Proverbs 10:27
The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 15:32-33 : 32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. 33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
- Prov 3:2 : 2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
- Prov 9:11 : 11 For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
- Ps 55:23 : 23 And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
- Ps 91:16 : 16 With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!
- Prov 3:16 : 16 Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour.
- Job 22:15-16 : 15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? 16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
- Ps 21:4 : 4 Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him -- length of days, Age-during -- and for ever.
- Ps 34:11-13 : 11 Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you. 12 Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
- Eccl 7:17 : 17 Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
- Jer 17:11 : 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
- Luke 12:20 : 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
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- Eccl 8:12-132 verses79%
12 Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
13 And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
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23 The fear of Jehovah `is' to life, And satisfied he remaineth -- he is not charged with evil.
- Prov 14:26-272 verses76%
26 In the fear of Jehovah `is' strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.
27 The fear of Jehovah `is' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
- Prov 10:28-292 verses75%
28 The hope of the righteous `is' joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.
29 The way of Jehovah `is' strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.
- Prov 9:10-112 verses74%
10 The commencement of wisdom `is' the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones `is' understanding.
11 For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
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10 The beginning of wisdom `is' fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise `is' standing for ever!
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24 The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.
- Prov 23:17-182 verses73%
17 Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
18 For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.
- Ps 90:9-124 verses72%
9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?
12 To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
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6 Days to the days of the king Thou addest, His years as generation and generation.
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16 The wage of the righteous `is' for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.
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13 The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
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4 The end of humility `is' the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
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20 `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
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15 The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.
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16 Better `is' a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.
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23 He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days.
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2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
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14 O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.
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17 Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
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4 Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.
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10 The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!
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1 To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,
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32 In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.
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33 The fear of Jehovah `is' the instruction of wisdom, And before honour `is' humility!
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2 The fear of a king `is' a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.
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11 Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.
12 Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?
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26 As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So `is' the slothful to those sending him.
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7 Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
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2 Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted `in' his ways is despising Him.
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10 And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.
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28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
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7 Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.
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38 And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.
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7 The remembrance of the righteous `is' for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.
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13 Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.
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9 The fear of Jehovah `is' clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah `are' true, They have been righteous -- together.
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5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
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7 Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
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34 Look unto Jehovah, and keep His way, And He doth exalt thee to possess the land, In the wicked being cut off -- thou seest!