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Proverbs 16 📜 📕 ↷
Reply of the Tongue Is from the LORD
1 It pertaineth to man to prepare the heart: and to our Lord to govern the tongue.📜💬📚
2 All the ways of man are open to his eyes: our Lord is the weigher of spirits.📜💬📚
3 Reveal thy works to our Lord: and thy cogitations shall be directed.📜💬📚
4 Our Lord hath wrought all things for himself: the impious also to the evil day.📜💬📚
5 Every arrogant man is an abomination to our Lord: although hand shall be to hand he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way, is to do justice: and it is more acceptable with God, than to immolate hosts.📜💬📚
6 By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed: and in the fear of our Lord evil is avoided.📜💬📚
7 When the ways of man shall please our Lord, he will convert also his enemies to peace.📜💬📚
8 Better is a little with justice, than much fruit with iniquity.📜💬📚
9 The heart of man disposeth his way: but it pertaineth to our Lord to direct his progress.📜💬📚
10 Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.📜💬📚
11 Weight and balance are judgments of our Lord: and his work all the stones of the bag.📜💬📚
12 They are abominable to the king that do impiously: because the throne is established by justice.📜💬📚
13 The will of kings are just lips: he that speaketh right things shall be beloved.📜💬📚
14 The king's indignation, messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it.📜💬📚
15 In the cheerfulness of the king's countenance is life: and his clemency is as the later shower.📜💬📚
16 Possess wisdom, because it is better than gold: and get prudence, because it is more precious than silver.📜💬📚
17 The path of the just avoideth evils: the keeper of his soul keepeth his way.📜💬📚
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and before ruin the spirit shall be exalted.📜💬📚
19 It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.📜💬📚
20 The learned in word shall find good things: and he that hopeth in our Lord, is blessed.📜💬📚
21 He that is wise in heart, shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in speech shall find greater things.📜💬📚
22 A fountain of life the learning of him that possesseth it: the doctrine of fools foolishness.📜💬📚
23 The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth: and shall add grace to his lips.📜💬📚
24 Well set words are a honey comb: sweetness of the soul the health of the bones.📜💬📚
25 There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the later ends thereof lead to death.📜💬📚
26 The soul of him that laboureth doth labour to himself, because his mouth hath compelled him.📜💬📚
27 The impious man diggeth evil, and in his lips fire burneth.📜💬📚
28 A perverse man raiseth contentions: and one full of words separateth Princes.📜💬📚
29 An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him by a way not good.📜💬📚
30 He that with astonished eyes thinketh wicked things, biting his lips bringeth evil to pass.📜💬📚
31 A crown of dignity old age, which shall be found in the ways of justice.📜💬📚
32 Better is the patient than a strong man: and he that ruleth his mind, than the overthrower of cities.📜💬📚
33 Lots are cast into the bosom, but they are ordered of our Lord.📜💬📚
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