en_cjb - Pro 19 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Better to be poor and live one’s life uprightly than engage in crooked speech, for such a one is a fool.

² To act without knowing how you function is not good; and if you rush ahead, you will miss your goal.

³ A person’s own folly is what ruins his way, but he rages in his heart against ADONAI.

⁴ Wealth brings in many friends, but the poor man loses the one friend he has.

⁵ A false witness will not go unpunished; whoever breathes out lies will not escape.

⁶ Many ask favors of a generous person — to a giver of gifts, everyone is a friend.

⁷ A poor man’s relatives all hate him; even more his friends stay away from him. He may pursue them with entreaties, but they aren’t there to be found.

⁸ To acquire good sense is to love oneself; to treasure discernment is to prosper.

⁹ A false witness will not go unpunished; whoever breathes out lies will perish.

¹⁰ It isn’t fitting for a fool to live in luxury, and even less for a slave to govern princes.

¹¹ People with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense.

¹² A king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

¹³ A son who is a fool is his father’s ruin, and a nagging wife is like a leak that keeps dripping.

¹⁴ A house and wealth are inherited from ancestors, but a sensible wife is from ADONAI.

¹⁵ Laziness makes people fall asleep, and an idle person will go hungry.

¹⁶ He who keeps a mitzvah keeps himself safe, but he who doesn’t care how he lives will die.

¹⁷ He who is kind to the poor is lending to ADONAI; and he will repay him for his good deed.

¹⁸ Discipline your child while there is hope, but don’t get so angry that you kill him!

¹⁹ A violent-tempered person will be punished; if you try to save him from it, you make things worse.

²⁰ Listen to advice, and accept discipline, so that in the end you will be wise.

²¹ One can devise many plans in one’s mind, but ADONAI’s plan will prevail.

²² A man’s lust is his shame, and a poor man is better than a liar.

²³ The fear of ADONAI leads to life; one who has it is satisfied and rests untouched by evil.

²⁴ The lazy person buries his hand in the dish but doesn’t even bother to bring it to his mouth.

²⁵ If you strike a scorner, the simple will learn to act wisely; if you reprove the intelligent, he will understand what you mean.

²⁶ One who mistreats his father and evicts his mother is a son who brings them shame and disgrace.

²⁷ My son, if you stop heeding discipline, you will stray from the principles of knowledge.

²⁸ A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swallows wrongdoing.

²⁹ Judgments are in store for scorners and blows for the backs of fools.