[217] Prov. xiii. 9; xxiv. 20. [218] Prov. xi. 19. [219] Prov. xi. 21. [220] Prov. xiv. 12; xvi. 5, 25; xxi. 2. [221] Prov. xxiii. 17, 18; xxiv. 1, 19. [222] Prov. xii. 7. [223] Prov. xiv. 12; xvi. 25. [224] Prov. xxiv. 15, 16. [225] Prov. xxix. 16. [226] Prov. xi. 3. [227] Prov. xiii. 6. Cf. Prov. xiv. 14: "The backslider in heart shall be sated from his own ways, and the good man from himself." Though probably we ought to read, with Nowack, מִמְּעֲלָלָיו, which would give a completer parallelism: "The backslider shall be sated from his own ways, and the good man from his own doings." [228] Prov. xi. 8. Cf. Prov. xxviii. 18. [229] Prov. xxi. 18. [230] Prov. xii. 13. [231] Prov. xii. 21. [232] Prov. xiii. 25. [233] Prov. xvi. 17; xix. 16. [234] Prov. xiv. 22. [235] Prov. xxi. 21. [236] Prov. xxi. 15; xxix. 6. Unless, with Delitzsch, we are to read בְּפֶשַׂע for בְּפֶשַׁע, and יָרוּצ for יָרוּן, which would give: "In the steps of a bad man lie snares, but the righteous runs and rejoices." [237] Prov. xi. 27, 30. [238] Prov. xii. 12. [239] Prov. xvii. 26: "To punish the righteous is not good, nor to smite the noble for their uprightness." [240] Prov. xiv. 32. [241] Prov. xx. 11. [242] Prov. xiv. 19. [243] Prov. xxv. 26. [244] Prov. xiv. 26: "In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge." So Prov. xx. 7: "A just man that walketh in his integrity: blessed are his children after him." [245] Prov. xiii. 22. [246] Prov. xii. 26. [247] Prov. xxii. 11. Cf. Prov. xvi. 13. [248] Prov. xi. 31. [249] Prov. xxix. 2. [250] Prov. xxviii. 12. [251] Prov. xi. 10, 11. [252] Prov. xiv. 34. [253] Prov. xxviii. 28. [254] Prov. xii. 26. [255] Prov. xvi. 27. [256] Prov. xviii. 3. [257] Prov. xxviii. 28. [258] Prov. xxix. 2. [259] Prov. xxiv. 24, 25. [260] Prov. xxviii. 4. [261] Prov. xxviii. 1. [262] Prov. xi. 20. [263] Prov. xii. 2. [264] Prov. xv. 26. [265] Prov. xv. 9. [266] Prov. xvii. 15, 26; xviii. 5. [267] Prov. xxi. 12, where "one that is righteous" seems to mean God Himself; see the margin of R.V. [268] Prov. xxii. 12. [269] Prov. xxiv. 12. [270] Prov. x. 29. [271] Prov. xxviii. 9. [272] Prov. xxi. 3. [273] Prov. xxi. 27. [274] Prov. xv. 8, 29. [275] Prov. xiv. 9. This seems to be the meaning of this difficult verse, which should be translated: The sin-offering mocks fools, but among the righteous is favour. [276] Prov. x. 23. [277] Matt. xvi. 27. [278] 1 John iii. 7, 10; ii. 29. [279] "If ye know that He is righteous," says St. John, "ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of Him." (1 John ii. 29). XII. _THE TONGUE._ "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."--PROV. xii. 14.