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Proverbs 21 📜 📕 ↷
King's Heart
1 As divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of our Lord: whither soever he will, he shall incline it.📜💬📚
2 Every way of a man seemeth to himself right: but our Lord weigheth the hearts.📜💬📚
3 To do mercy and judgment, doth more please our Lord than victims.📜💬📚
4 Exaltation of the eyes is the dilation of the heart: the lamp of the impious, sin.📜💬📚
5 The cogitations of the strong are always in aboundance: but every sluggard is always in poverty.📜💬📚
6 He that gathereth treasures with a lying tongue is vain and witless, and shall stumble at the snares of death.📜💬📚
7 The robberies of the impious shall draw them down, because they would not do judgment.📜💬📚
8 The perverse way of a man is strange: but he that is clean, his work is right.📜💬📚
9 It is better to sit in a corner of the house top, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.📜💬📚
10 The soul of the impious desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.📜💬📚
11 The pestilent man being punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wiseman, he will take knowledge.📜💬📚
12 The just deviseth concerning the house of the impious, that he may draw the impious from evil.📜💬📚
13 He that stoppeth his ear at the cry of the poor, himself also shall cry and shall not be heard.📜💬📚
14 A gift hid quencheth angers: and a gift in the bosom the greatest indignation.📜💬📚
15 It is a joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.📜💬📚
16 A man, that shall err from the way of doctrine, shall abide in the assembly of giants.📜💬📚
17 He that loveth good cheer, shall be in poverty: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.📜💬📚
18 The impious shall be given for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.📜💬📚
19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a brawling and angry woman.📜💬📚
20 Treasure to be desired, and oil in the habitation of the just: and the unwise man shall dissipate it.📜💬📚
21 He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory.📜💬📚
22 The wise hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath destroyed the confidence thereof.📜💬📚
23 He that keepeth his mouth, and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distresses.📜💬📚
24 The proud and arrogant is called unlearned, which in anger worketh pride.📜💬📚
25 Desires kill the slothful: for his hands would not work any thing:📜💬📚
26 all the day he longeth and desireth: but he that is just, will give, and will not cease.📜💬📚
27 The hosts of the impious abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.📜💬📚
28 A lying witness shall perish: an obedient man shall speak victory.📜💬📚
29 The impious man malapertly hardeneth his countenance: but he that is righteous, correcteth his way.📜💬📚
30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against our Lord.📜💬📚
31 The horse is prepared to the day of battle: but our Lord giveth salvation.📜💬📚
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