Proverbs, 19

¹ Anyone of little means who is walking in his integrity is better than the one crooked in his lips,^*1 and the one that is stupid.

² Also, that the soul should be without knowledge is not good, and he that is hastening with his feet is sinning.^*1

³ It is the foolishness of an earthling man that distorts his way, and so his heart becomes enraged against Jehovah himself.

⁴ Wealth is what adds many companions, but one that is lowly gets separated even from his companion.

⁵ A false witness will not be free from punishment, and he that launches forth lies will not escape.

⁶ Many are those who soften the face of a noble, and everybody is a companion to the man making gifts.

⁷ The brothers of one of little means have all hated him. How much farther have his personal friends kept away from him! He is pursuing with things to say; they are not.

⁸ He that is acquiring heart^*1 is loving his own soul. He that is guarding discernment is going to find good.

⁹ The false witness will not be free from punishment, and he that launches forth lies will perish.

¹⁰ Luxury is not fitting for anyone stupid. How much less for a servant to rule over princes!

¹¹ The insight of a man^*1 certainly slows down his anger, and it is beauty on his part to pass over transgression.

¹² The raging of a king is a growling like that of a maned young lion, but his goodwill is like the dew upon the vegetation.

¹³ A stupid son means adversities to his father, and the contentions of a wife are as a leaking roof that drives one away.

¹⁴ The inheritance from fathers is a house and wealth, but a discreet wife is from Jehovah.

¹⁵ Laziness causes a deep sleep to fall, and a slack soul goes hungry.

¹⁶ He that is keeping the commandment is keeping his soul; he that is despising his ways will be put to death.

¹⁷ He that is showing favor to the lowly one is lending to Jehovah, and his treatment He will repay to him.

¹⁸ Chastise your son while there exists hope; and to the putting of him to death do not lift up your soul[ful desire].

¹⁹ He that is of great rage will be bearing the fine; for if you would deliver [him], you will also keep doing it again and again.

²⁰ Listen to counsel and accept discipline, in order that you may become wise in your future.

²¹ Many are the plans in the heart of a man,^*1 but the counsel of Jehovah is what will stand.

²² The desirable thing in earthling man^*1 is his loving-kindness; and one of little means is better than a lying man.

²³ The fear of Jehovah tends toward life, and one will spend the night satisfied; one will not be visited with what is bad.

²⁴ The lazy one has hidden his hand in the banquet bowl; he cannot bring it back even to his own mouth.

²⁵ The ridiculer you should strike, that the inexperienced one may become shrewd; and there should be a reproving of the understanding one, that he may discern knowledge.

²⁶ He that is maltreating a father [and] that chases a mother away is a son acting shamefully and disgracefully.

²⁷ Cease, my son, to listen to discipline [and it will mean] to stray from the sayings of knowledge.

²⁸ A good-for-nothing witness^*1 derides justice, and the very mouth of wicked people swallows down what is hurtful.

²⁹ Judgments have been firmly established for ridiculers, and strokes for the back of stupid ones.