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Proverbs 11 — Integrity, public life, and generosity — Hebrew and Greek compared

Saints Translation — Proverbs 1–31 [V1]

Same 1 Similar 5 Different 11 Divergent 8 Disparate 6

Disparate in this chapter: H 11:3, H 11:7, H 11:15, H 11:25, H 11:30, H 11:31

Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.

Proverbs 11 — Integrity, public life, and generosity

The H publisher extraction presents thirty-one sof-pasuq-delimited verses without visible numeric labels; H references follow that complete sequential segmentation. The separately displayed G main text explicitly skips 11:4.

11:1–11:9 — Integrity and deliverance

Verse H 11:1 Same

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:1

Deceitful scales are an abomination to YHWH,

but a full stone-weight is His delight.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:1

Deceitful scales are an abomination before the Lord,

but a just weight is acceptable to Him.

Comparison and reception

Same. Text: H's stone is a weighing stone, made explicit for clarity.

Verse H 11:2 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:2

Pride comes, and disgrace comes,

but wisdom is with the modest.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:2

Wherever insolence enters, dishonor is there too,

but the mouth of the humble meditates on wisdom.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: G explicitly gives the humble a mouth meditating on wisdom, where H says wisdom is with the modest.

Verse H 11:3 Disparate

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them,

but the crookedness of the treacherous devastates them.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:3

A righteous person, when he died, left regret,

but the destruction of the impious is ready at hand and welcomed with joy.

Comparison and reception

Disparate. Text: H concerns integrity and treachery guiding or ruining the living; G contrasts responses to death. G's joyful destruction echoes an element of H 11:10, but remains source G 11:3.

Verse H 11:4 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:4

Wealth does not profit on a day of wrath,

but righteousness rescues from death.

Greek–English (G)

G —

[No corresponding text in the displayed Greek main text.]

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: No G 11:4 entry is displayed; the Hebrew saying is retained without inventing a Greek counterpart.

Verse H 11:5 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless makes his way straight,

but the wicked falls through his wickedness.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:5

Righteousness cuts blameless paths straight,

but impiety falls into injustice.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H describes a blameless person's path and a wicked person's fall; G gives the abstract qualities a more direct grammatical role.

Verse H 11:6 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:6

The righteousness of the upright rescues them,

but the treacherous are caught in their craving.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:6

The righteousness of upright men rescues them,

but lawless people are caught in their own destruction.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H locates entrapment in craving; G in destruction.

Verse H 11:7 Disparate

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:7

When a wicked person dies, hope perishes,

and the expectation of strong ones has perished.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:7

When a righteous man dies, hope does not perish,

but the boast of the impious perishes.

Comparison and reception

Disparate. Text: H has a wicked person's hope perishing; G explicitly says a righteous person's hope does not perish. H onim is provisionally 'strong ones'; strength, resources, or another reading remain debated.

Verse H 11:8 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:8

The righteous is delivered from distress,

and the wicked comes into it in his place.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:8

The righteous escapes from the hunt,

but the impious is handed over in his place.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: G makes the danger a hunt or trap; both portray a reversal of places.

Verse H 11:9 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:9

With his mouth the godless person destroys his neighbor,

but through knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:9

In the mouth of the impious is a trap for citizens,

but the discernment of the righteous has a good course.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H speaks of a neighbor's destruction and the righteous being rescued; G of civic entrapment and successful discernment.

11:10–11:17 — The city, counsel, and the household

Verse H 11:10 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:10

When the righteous prosper, the town exults,

and when the wicked perish, there is a ringing cry.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:10

Through the good things of the righteous a city prospered,

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: G has only the city-prospering clause here and continues the sentence at 11:11. H's celebration at the wicked's fall has a thematic counterpart in G 11:3, not a second translation inserted here.

Verse H 11:11 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:11

By the blessing of the upright a town is exalted,

but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:11

but by the mouths of the impious it was razed.

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: G continues 11:10 with the city's destruction and has no separate blessing-and-exaltation clause here.

Verse H 11:12 Similar

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:12

One who despises his neighbor lacks heart,

but a person of understanding keeps silent.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:12

One lacking understanding sneers at citizens,

but an intelligent man keeps quiet.

Comparison and reception

Similar. Text: G speaks of citizens collectively; H of a neighbor. Both connect restraint and understanding.

Verse H 11:13 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:13

One who goes about as a talebearer reveals a secret,

but one faithful in spirit conceals a matter.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:13

A double-tongued man reveals plans in a council,

but one faithful in breath conceals matters.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: G explicitly situates disclosure in a council and says 'breath' rather than the usual word for spirit.

Verse H 11:14 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:14

Where there is no guidance, a people falls,

but deliverance is in an abundance of counselors.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:14

Those who have no steering fall like leaves,

but deliverance is in much counsel.

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: G adds the falling-leaves simile. H names counselors, G counsel, while both evoke the guidance of steering.

Verse H 11:15 Disparate

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:15

One who guarantees a stranger will surely fare badly,

but one who hates striking pledges is secure.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:15

An evil person does harm when he mixes with a righteous person,

and he hates the sound of security.

Comparison and reception

Disparate. Text: H warns against financial surety and pledged hand-striking; G describes an evil person's association with the righteous and dislike of security. Neither reading is reconstructed from the other.

Verse H 11:16 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:16

A gracious woman holds fast to honor,

and ruthless men hold fast to wealth.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:16

A gracious woman raises glory for her husband,

but a woman who hates righteous things is a throne of dishonor.

The lazy become lacking in wealth,

but the courageous lean upon wealth.

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: G has four clauses against H's two, adds a dishonorable woman and the lazy, and makes the gracious woman's honor benefit her husband. H's ruthless men are not G's courageous men.

Verse H 11:17 Similar

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:17

A man of steadfast kindness benefits his own life,

but a cruel man troubles his own flesh.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:17

A merciful man does good to his own life,

but the merciless destroys his own body.

Comparison and reception

Similar. Text: H's kindness and cruelty, G's mercy and mercilessness, produce comparable effects on oneself.

11:18–11:24 — Righteousness and its rewards

Verse H 11:18 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:18

The wicked earns deceptive wages,

but one who sows righteousness earns a true reward.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:18

The impious does unjust works,

but the seed of righteous people is a reward of truth.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H contrasts deceptive earnings with the sower's true reward; G contrasts unjust actions with the righteous seed. G's seed may evoke what is sown or descendants; the translation leaves that image open.

Verse H 11:19 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:19

Thus righteousness is for life,

but one who pursues evil pursues it to his death.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:19

A righteous son is born for life,

but pursuit of the impious is for death.

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: H ken is read 'thus'; its compressed construction can also be understood as steadfast righteousness. G explicitly has a righteous son being born. Its second genitive could mean the impious person's pursuit or pursuit directed at him.

Verse H 11:20 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:20

The crooked of heart are an abomination to YHWH,

but those blameless in their way are His delight.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:20

Perverted ways are an abomination to the Lord,

but all who are blameless in their ways are acceptable to Him.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H condemns crooked hearts, G crooked ways; the positive evaluation closely agrees.

Verse H 11:21 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:21

Hand to hand, the evil person will not go unpunished,

but the offspring of the righteous escapes.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:21

One who unjustly puts hands into a hand will not go unpunished,

but one who sows righteousness will receive a faithful reward.

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: H's 'hand to hand' is an uncertain idiom, often understood as emphatic assurance or joined hands. G makes wrongful hand-joining explicit and replaces righteous offspring escaping with a sower's reward, echoing H 11:18.

Verse H 11:22 Similar

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:22

A gold ring in a pig's snout

is a beautiful woman who turns away from discretion.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:22

As a ring in a pig's snout,

so is beauty for a woman of bad judgment.

Comparison and reception

Similar. Text: H specifies gold and the woman's departing from discretion; G calls her badly minded. The comparison is the ancient proverb's image.

Verse H 11:23 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:23

The desire of the righteous is only good;

the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:23

Every desire of the righteous is good,

but the hope of the impious will perish.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H gives wrath as the expected outcome; G says the hope itself perishes.

Verse H 11:24 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:24

There is one who scatters and increases still more,

and one who withholds beyond what is right, only to lack.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:24

There are those who sow their own things and produce more,

and there are those who gather and become diminished.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H's scattering and wrongful withholding contrast with G's sowing possessions and gathering; both describe counterintuitive gain and loss.

11:25–11:31 — Generosity, trust, and life's outcome

Verse H 11:25 Disparate

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:25

A life that bestows blessing will be made full,

and one who waters will himself also be watered.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:25

Every blessed life is sincere,

but an irascible man is not becoming.

Comparison and reception

Disparate. Text: H links generosity with being refreshed; G contrasts sincerity in a blessed life with an angry man's unbecoming conduct. H's unusual final watering form is read contextually and not presented as an accessed qere.

Verse H 11:26 Divergent

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:26

One who withholds grain—the people curse him,

but blessing is on the head of one who sells it.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:26

May one who holds grain back leave it to the nations,

but blessing is upon the head of one who shares it.

Comparison and reception

Divergent. Text: G uses an optative wish about leaving grain to nations rather than H's people cursing. H names selling grain, G sharing it.

Verse H 11:27 Similar

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:27

One who diligently seeks good seeks favor,

but one who searches for evil—it will come upon him.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:27

One who devises good things seeks good favor,

but evil will overtake the one who searches for it.

Comparison and reception

Similar. Text: G's evil subject in the second clause is supplied from the immediately preceding object. Both describe the seeker's fitting outcome.

Verse H 11:28 Different

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:28

One who trusts in his wealth will fall,

but the righteous will flourish like foliage.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:28

One who trusts in wealth will fall,

but one who supports righteous people will spring up.

Comparison and reception

Different. Text: H's flourishing righteous people become G's flourishing supporter of righteous people; H's foliage comparison is not explicit in G.

Verse H 11:29 Similar

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:29

One who troubles his household will inherit wind,

and a fool will be servant to one wise of heart.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:29

One who does not deal well with his own household will inherit wind,

and a fool will serve an intelligent person.

Comparison and reception

Similar. Text: G describes failure to accommodate one's household; H troubling it. Both retain the wind inheritance and service reversal.

Verse H 11:30 Disparate

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,

and one who takes lives is wise.

Greek–English (G)

G 11:30

From the fruit of righteousness a tree of life grows,

but the lives of lawless people are taken away before their time.

Comparison and reception

Disparate. Text: H's 'takes lives' is difficult: attracting, winning, or preserving people is often inferred, but no verb 'save' is written. G instead explicitly describes the premature removal of lawless lives.

Verse H 11:31 Disparate

Hebrew–English (H)

H 11:31

Look, the righteous is repaid on earth;

how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Greek–English (G)

G 11:31

If the righteous is scarcely saved,

where will the impious and sinner appear?

Comparison and reception

Disparate. Text: H speaks of recompense on earth; G of the righteous being saved with difficulty and the impious person's fate. The different framing is retained.