Proverbs 19

19Better the poor walking in integrity
than one perverse of speech who is a fool.
²Desire without knowledge is not good,
and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.
³One’s own folly leads to ruin,
yet the heart rages against the Lord.
⁴Wealth brings many friends,
but the poor are left friendless.
⁵A false witness will not go unpunished,
and a liar will not escape.
⁶Many seek the favor of the generous,
and everyone is a friend to a giver of gifts.
⁷If the poor are hated even by their kin,
how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there. ⁸To get wisdom is to love oneself;
to keep understanding is to prosper.
⁹A false witness will not go unpunished,
and the liar will perish.
¹⁰It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury,
much less for a slave to rule over princes.
¹¹Those with good sense are slow to anger,
and it is their glory to overlook an offense.
¹²A king’s anger is like the growling of a lion,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.
¹³A stupid child is ruin to a father,
and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
¹⁴House and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
¹⁵Laziness brings on deep sleep;
an idle person will suffer hunger.
¹⁶Those who keep the commandment will live;
those who are heedless of their ways will die.
¹⁷Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
and will be repaid in full.
¹⁸Discipline your children while there is hope;
do not set your heart on their destruction.
¹⁹A violent tempered person will pay the penalty;
if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.
²⁰Listen to advice and accept instruction,
that you may gain wisdom for the future.
²¹The human mind may devise many plans,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.
²²What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
and it is better to be poor than a liar.
²³The fear of the Lord is life indeed;
filled with it one rests secure
and suffers no harm.
²⁴The lazy person buries a hand in the dish,
and will not even bring it back to the mouth.
²⁵Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;
reprove the intelligent, and they will gain knowledge.
²⁶Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother
are children who cause shame and bring reproach.
²⁷Cease straying, my child, from the words of knowledge,
in order that you may hear instruction.
²⁸A worthless witness mocks at justice,
and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
²⁹Condemnation is ready for scoffers,
and flogging for the backs of fools.

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