1. Wisdom lifteth up the head of him that is of low degree, and maketh him to sit among great men.

2. Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his outward appearance.

3. The bee is little among such as fly; but her fruit is the chief of sweet things.

4. Boast not of thy clothing and raiment, and exalt not thyself in the day of honour: for the works of the Lord are wonderful, and his works among men are hidden.

5. Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.

6. Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men’s hands.

7. Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand first, and then rebuke.

8. Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

9. Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not; and sit not in judgment with sinners.

10. My son, meddle not with many matters: for if thou meddle much, thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou shalt not obtain, neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.

11. There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.

12. Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,

13. And lifted up his head from misery; so that many that saw it marvelled at him.

14. Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.

15. Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the law, are of the Lord: love, and the way of good works, are from him.

16. Error and darkness had their beginning together with sinners: and evil shall wax old with them that glory therein.

17. The gift of the Lord remaineth with the ungodly, and his favour bringeth prosperity for ever.

18. There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and this is the portion of his reward:

19. Whereas he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat continually of my goods; and yet he knoweth not what time shall come upon him, and that he must leave those things to others, and die.

20. Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and wax old in thy work.

21. Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

22. The blessing of the Lord is in the reward of the godly, and suddenly he maketh his blessing flourish.

23. Say not, What profit is there of my service? and what good things shall I have hereafter?

24. Again, say not, I have enough, and possess many things, and what evil shall I have hereafter?

25. In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

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What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

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The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

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