Proverbs 10:12-21

¹²Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.

¹³In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

¹⁴Wise men lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is an imminent ruin.

¹⁵The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

¹⁶The wages of the righteous is life; the increase of the wicked is sin.

¹⁷He is in the way of life that heedeth instruction; but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

¹⁸He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

¹⁹In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

²⁰The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.

²¹The lips of the righteous feed many; but the foolish die for want of understanding.