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📚✭Better is the poor man who walksin his integrity than he who is
perverse in speech and is a fool.
2 📚Also it is not good for the soul
to be without knowledge,
and he who makes haste with his
feet misses the way.
3 📚✭The foolishness of a man perverts his way,
and his heart frets against the LORD.
4 📚Wealth makes many friends,
but the poor man is separated from
his neighbour.
5 📚✭A false witness will not be unpunished,
and he who speaks lies will not escape.
6 📚Many will beg favours from the prince,
and every man is a friend
to the one who gives gifts.
7 📚✭All the brothers of the poor man hate him;
how much more do his friends keep
their distance from him!
He pursues them with words,
but they are not there for him.
8 📚He who gets wisdom loves✭ his own soul;
he who has regard for understanding
will find good.
9 📚A false witness will not be unpunished,
and he who speaks lies will perish.
10 📚Luxury is not fitting for a fool;
much less for a servant to rule princes.
11 📚A man’s discretion makes him slow
to get angry✭,
and it is his glory to overlook✭ a transgression.
12 📚The king’s wrath is like
the roaring of a lion,
but his favour is like dew on the grass.
13 📚A foolish son is the calamity
of his father,
and the quarrels of a wife are
a continual dripping.
14 📚✭House and riches are the inheritance
of fathers,
and an understanding wife is
from the LORD.
15 📚Laziness casts into a deep sleep,
and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
16 📚He who keeps the commandment
keeps his own soul,
but he who despises his ways will die.
17 📚✭He who is generous to the poor lends
to the LORD,
and he will repay him what he has given.
18 📚✭Discipline your son while there is hope,
and do not let your soul remove
it because of his crying✭.
19 📚✭A man of great anger will pay the penalty;
for if you rescue him,
yet you must do it again.
20 📚Listen to advice and receive instruction,
so that you may be wise in the end
of your days.
21 📚✭There are many plans
in a man’s heart;
nevertheless the counsel of the LORD
is what will stand.
22 📚What is desirable in a man is
his kindness✭,
and a poor man is better than a liar✭.
23 📚The fear✭ of the LORD leads to life,
and he who has it will rest satisfied✭,
untouched by evil.
24 📚A lazy man buries
his hand in the dish✭,
and will not so much as bring it back
to his mouth.
25 📚Strike a scorner and the simple will beware,
and rebuke one who has understanding,
and he will understand knowledge.
26 📚He who despoils his father and
chases his mother away is a son
who causes shame and brings disgrace.
27 📚My son, stop listening to the instruction
that causes one to stray
from the words of knowledge.
28 📚An ungodly witness scorns justice,
and the mouth of the wicked feeds on evil.
29 📚Judgments are prepared for scorners,
and blows for the back of fools.