Proverbs 18:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For `an object of' desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:1-6 : 1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, 2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, 3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, 4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, 5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 20:3 : 3 An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
  • Eph 5:15-17 : 15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil; 17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,
  • Jude 1:19 : 19 these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
  • Prov 24:21 : 21 Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,
  • Prov 26:17 : 17 Laying hold on the ears of a dog, `Is' a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.
  • Jer 15:17 : 17 I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, -- Alone I have sat, For `with' indignation Thou hast filled me.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 speaking unto the priests who `are' at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, `Do I weep in the fifth month -- being separated -- as I have done these so many years?'
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 And he answering said to them that -- `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,
  • Mark 1:35 : 35 And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;
  • Mark 4:11 : 11 and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God --
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 and in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Thine eyes -- I and Thy people -- is it not in Thy going with us? and we have been distinguished -- I and Thy people -- from all the people who `are' on the face of the ground.'
  • Isa 26:8-9 : 8 Also, `in' the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited `for' Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance `Is' the desire of the soul. 9 `With' my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, `with' my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments `are' on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

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