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Proverbs 14 📜 📕 ↷
Wise Woman
1 A wise woman buildeth her house: the unwise will with her hands destroy that also which is built.📜💬📚
2 He that walketh in the right way, & feareth God, is despised of him, that goeth an infamous way.📜💬📚
3 In the mouth of a fool the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise keep them.📜💬📚
4 Where oxen are not, the stall is empty: but where much corn is, there is the ox's strength manifest.📜💬📚
5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.📜💬📚
6 A scorner seeketh wisdom and findeth it not: the doctrine of the prudent is easy.📜💬📚
7 Go against a foolish man, and he knoweth not the lips of prudence.📜💬📚
8 The wisdom of a discrete man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.📜💬📚
9 A fool will laugh at sin, & among the just grace shall abide.📜💬📚
10 The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his soul, in his joy shall not the stranger be mingled.📜💬📚
11 The house of the impious shall be razed: the tabernacles of the just shall spring.📜💬📚
12 There is a way, which seemeth to a man just: but the later ends thereof lead to death.📜💬📚
13 Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning occupieth the later ends of joy.📜💬📚
14 A fool shall be replenished with his ways, and the good man shall be above him.📜💬📚
15 The innocent believeth every word: the discrete man considereth his steps.📜💬📚
16 A wise man feareth and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over and is confident.📜💬📚
17 The impatient man shall work folly: and the subtle man is odious.📜💬📚
18 The childish man shall possess folly, and the prudent shall expect knowledge.📜💬📚
19 The evil shall lie down before the good, and the impious before the gates of the just.📜💬📚
20 The poor shall be odious even to his neighbour: but the friends of the rich be many.📜💬📚
21 He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that hath pity on the poor, shall be blessed.📜💬📚
22 They err that work evil: mercy and truth prepare good things.📜💬📚
23 In every work there shall be aboundance: but where many words are, there is oftentimes poverty.📜💬📚
24 The crown of the wise, their riches: the folly of fools, imprudence.📜💬📚
25 A faithful witness delivereth souls: and the dissembler uttereth lies.📜💬📚
26 In the fear of our Lord is confidence of strength, and to his children there shall be hope.📜💬📚
27 The fear of our Lord a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.📜💬📚
28 In the multitude of people the dignity of the king: and in fewness of people the ignominy of the Prince.📜💬📚
29 He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.📜💬📚
30 Health of heart, the life of the flesh: envy, the putrefaction of the bones.📜💬📚
31 He that doth calumniate the needy, upbraideth his maker: but he honoureth him, that hath pity on the poor.📜💬📚
32 The impious shall be expelled in his malice: but the just hopeth in his death.📜💬📚
33 In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, & it shall instruct all the unlearned.📜💬📚
34 Justice advanceth a nation: but sin maketh peoples miserable.📜💬📚
35 A servant that understandeth is acceptable to the king: he that is unprofitable shall sustain his anger.📜💬📚
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