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19Better the poor walking in integrity
   than one perverse of speech who is a fool.
² Desire without knowledge is not good,
   and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.
³ One’s own folly leads to ruin,
   yet the heart rages against the Lord.
⁴ Wealth brings many friends,
   but the poor are left friendless.
⁵ A false witness will not go unpunished,
   and a liar will not escape.
⁶ Many seek the favour of the generous,
   and everyone is a friend to a giver of gifts.
⁷ If the poor are hated even by their kin,
   how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there.^*
8 To get wisdom is to love oneself;
   to keep understanding is to prosper.
⁹ A false witness will not go unpunished,
   and the liar will perish.
¹⁰ It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury,
   much less for a slave to rule over princes.
¹¹ Those with good sense are slow to anger,
   and it is their glory to overlook an offence.
¹² A king’s anger is like the growling of a lion,
   but his favour is like dew on the grass.
¹³ A stupid child is ruin to a father,
   and a wife’s quarrelling is a continual dripping of rain.
¹⁴ House and wealth are inherited from parents,
   but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
¹⁵ Laziness brings on deep sleep;
   an idle person will suffer hunger.
¹⁶ Those who keep the commandment will live;
   those who are heedless of their ways will die.
¹⁷ Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
   and will be repaid in full.
¹⁸ Discipline your children while there is hope;
   do not set your heart on their destruction.
¹⁹ A violent-tempered person will pay the penalty;
   if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.^*
20 Listen to advice and accept instruction,
   that you may gain wisdom for the future.
²¹ The human mind may devise many plans,
   but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.
²² What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
   and it is better to be poor than a liar.
²³ The fear of the Lord is life indeed;
   filled with it one rests secure
   and suffers no harm.
²⁴ The lazy person buries a hand in the dish,
   and will not even bring it back to the mouth.
²⁵ Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;
   reprove the intelligent, and they will gain knowledge.
²⁶ Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother
   are children who cause shame and bring reproach.
²⁷ Cease straying, my child, from the words of knowledge,
   in order that you may hear instruction.
²⁸ A worthless witness mocks at justice,
   and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
²⁹ Condemnation is ready for scoffers,
   and flogging for the backs of fools.