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📚✭The plans of the heart belong to man,but the answer of the tongue is
from the LORD.
2 📚All the ways of a man are
clean✭ in his own eyes,
but the LORD weighs the spirits✭.
3 📚✭Commit your works to the LORD,
and your thoughts will be established.
4 📚✭The LORD has made all things
to answer for his purpose;✭ yes,
even the wicked for the day of disaster.
5 📚✭Everyone who has a proud heart
is an abomination to the LORD;
though hand join in hand,
he will not be unpunished.
6 📚By mercy and truth wickedness is
atoned✭ for, and by the fear✭
of the LORD people depart from evil.
7 📚✭When a man’s ways please the LORD,
he makes even his enemies to be
at peace with him.
8 📚✭Better is a little with righteousness
than great income without righteousness.
9 📚✭A man’s heart plans his way,
but the LORD directs his steps.
10 📚✭A divine sentence✭ is
in the lips of the king;
his mouth must not transgress in judgment.
11 📚A just weight and balance are
the LORD’s;
all the weights in the bag are
his business.
12 📚✭It is an abomination for kings
to commit wickedness,
for the throne is established
by righteousness.
13 📚Righteous lips are the delight
of kings,
and they love him who speaks
the right thing✭.
14 📚The wrath of a king is like
messengers of death,
but a wise man will pacify it.
15 📚In the light of the king’s
countenance is life,
and his favour is like a cloud
of spring rain.
16 📚How much better it is
to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is
to be chosen rather than silver!
17 📚The highway of the upright is
to depart from evil;
he who keeps his way preserves his soul.
18 📚Pride appears before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 📚It is better✭ to have
a humble spirit with the lowly,
than to divide the plunder with the proud.
20 📚He who handles a matter wisely
will find good,
and happy✭ is the one who trusts
in the LORD.
21 📚The wise in heart will be called discerning,
and sweetness of speech
increases persuasiveness.
22 📚✭Understanding is a fountain
of life to him who has it,
but the instruction of fools is folly.
23 📚The heart of the wise teaches his mouth,
and adds learning to his lips.
24 📚Pleasant words are like
a honeycomb, sweet to the soul,
and health to the bones.
25 📚There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the ways of death.
26 📚A labourer’s appetite works for him,
for his hunger urges him on.
27 📚An ungodly man digs up evil,
and his lips are like a burning fire.
28 📚A perverse man sows strife,
and a talebearer separates chief friends.
29 📚A violent man entices his neighbour
and leads him into a way that is
not good.
30 📚He shuts his eyes to plot perverse things;
moving his lips he causes evil to take place.
31 📚The gray head is a crown of glory,
if it is found in the way
of righteousness.
32 📚He who is slow to get angry✭
is better than the mighty,
and he who rules✭ his spirit than
he who takes a city.
33 📚The lot✭ is cast into the lap,
but each one of its decisions is
from the LORD.