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📚The wicked flee when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
2 📚Because of the transgression of a land,
it has many rulers,
but by a man of understanding
and knowledge it will endure.
3 📚A poor man who oppresses the poor
is like a driving rain
which leaves no food.
4 📚✭They who forsake the law praise the wicked,
but those who keep the law oppose them.
5 📚✭Evil men do not understand justice,
but they who seek the LORD understand all things.
6 📚Better is the poor who walks
in his integrity,
than he who is rich but perverse
in his ways.
7 📚✭Whoever keeps the law is
a wise son,
but he who is a companion of gluttons shames
his father.
8 📚He who increases his possessions
by usury✭ and dishonest gain will gather
it for him✭ who has pity on the poor.
9 📚✭As for the one who turns
his ear away from hearing the law,
even his prayer will be an abomination.
10 📚Whoever causes the righteous
to go astray in an evil way will himself fall
into his own pit,
but the upright will have a good inheritance.
11 📚The rich man is wise in his own eyes,
but the poor who has understanding
sees through him.
12 📚✭When righteous people rejoice,
there is great honour,
but when the wicked rise up,
a man hides himself.
13 📚✭He who covers his sins will not prosper,
but whoever confesses and forsakes
them will have mercy.
14 📚Happy✭ is the man who always fears✭
the LORD, but he who hardens✭
his heart will fall into trouble.
15 📚✭Like a roaring lion and
a charging bear is a wicked ruler
over a poor people.
16 📚The ruler who lacks understanding
is also a great oppressor,
but he who hates covetousness
will prolong his days.
17 📚A man who does violence
to the blood of any person is fleeing
to the pit.
Let no one support him.
18 📚✭Whoever walks uprightly will be rescued,
but he who is perverse
in his ways will fall at once.
19 📚He who tills his land will have plenty of food,
but he who follows vain persons
will have poverty enough.
20 📚A faithful man will have abundant blessings✭,
but he who makes haste to be rich✭
will not be innocent.
21 📚✭To show favoritism is not good,
because for a piece of bread a man
will transgress.
22 📚He whose eye is evil hastens to be rich,
and does not consider that poverty
will come on him.
23 📚He who rebukes a man will find
more favour afterwards than
he who flatters with the tongue.
24 📚Whoever robs his father or his mother,
and says, “It is not wrong”,
that person is a companion
of one who destroys.
25 📚He who has a proud heart stirs up strife,
but he who puts his trust in the LORD
will prosper.
26 📚✭He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
but whoever walks wisely will be rescued.
27 📚✭He who gives to the poor will not lack,
but he who hides his eyes from them
will have many a curse.
28 📚When the wicked rise up,
men hide themselves, but when they perish,
the righteous increase.