Proverbs 11:15-31

¹⁵A bad man does harm wherever he meets a just man: and he hates the sound of safety.

¹⁶A gracious wife brings glory to her husband: but a woman hating righteousness is a theme of dishonour. The slothful come to lack: but the diligent support themselves with wealth.

¹⁷A merciful man does good to his own soul: but the merciless destroys his own body.

¹⁸An ungodly man performs unrighteous works: but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

¹⁹A righteous son is born for life: but the persecution of the ungodly ends in death.

²⁰Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.

²¹He that unjustly strikes hands shall not be unpunished: but he that sows righteousness he shall receive a faithful reward.

²²As an ornament in a swine's snout, so is beauty to an ill-minded women.

²³All the desire of the righteous is good: but the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

²⁴There are some who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are some also who gather, yet have less.

²⁵Every sincere soul is blessed: but a passionate man is not graceful.

²⁶May he that hoards corn leave it to the nation: but blessing be on the head of him that gives it.

²⁷He that devises good counsels seeks good favour: but as for him that seeks after evil, evil shall overtake him.

²⁸He that trusts in wealth shall fall; but he that helps righteous men shall rise.

²⁹He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise man.

³⁰Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

³¹If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?