Proverbs 19

¹ Better the poor living an honest life than the adept at double-talk who is a fool.

² Where knowledge is wanting, zeal is not good; whoever goes too quickly stumbles.

³ Folly leads conduct astray, yet it is against Yahweh that the heart rages.

⁴ Wealth multiplies friends, but the one friend the poor has is taken away.

⁵ The false witness wil not go unpunished, no one who utters lies wil go free.

⁶ The nobleman has many to court his favour, to a giver of gifts, everyone is friend.

⁷ The poor man's brothers hate him, every one; his friends -- how much the more do these desert him!He goes in search of words, but there are none to be had.

⁸ Whoever acquires sense wins profit from it, whoever treasures understanding finds happiness.

⁹ The false witness wil not go unpunished, whoever utters lies wil be destroyed.

¹⁰ It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, stil less for a slave to govern princes.

¹¹ Good sense makes for self-control, and for pride in overlooking an offence.

¹² Like the roaring of a lion, the anger of a king, but like dew on the grass his favour.

¹³ A foolish child is a disaster for the father, the bickerings of a wife are like an ever-dripping gutter.

¹⁴ From fathers comes inheritance of house and wealth, from Yahweh a wife who is discreet.

¹⁵ Idleness lul s to sleep, the feckless soul wil go hungry.

¹⁶ Keeping the commandment is self-preservation, but whoever despises these ways wil die.

¹⁷ Whoever is kind to the poor is lending to Yahweh who wil repay him the kindness done.

¹⁸ While there is hope for him, chastise your child, but do not get so angry as to kill him.

¹⁹ The violent lays himself open to a penalty; spare him, and you aggravate his crime.

²⁰ Listen to advice, accept correction, to be the wiser in the time to come.

²¹ Many are the plans in the human heart, but the purpose of Yahweh -- that stands firm.

²² Faithful love is what people look for in a person; they prefer the poor to a liar.

²³ The fear of Yahweh leads to life, it brings food and shelter, without fear of evil.

²⁴ Into the dish the idler dips his hand, but bring it back to his mouth he cannot.

²⁵ Strike a cynic, and simpletons wil be more wary; reprove the intel igent and he wil understand yourmeaning.

²⁶ He who il -treats his father and drives out his mother is a child both worthless and depraved.

²⁷ Give up listening to instruction, my child, if you mean to stray from words of knowledge.

²⁸ A perjured witness holds the law in scorn; the mouth of the wicked feasts on evil-doing.

²⁹ Punishments were made for mockers, and beating for the backs of fools.