Proverbs 11:5-11

⁵Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.

⁶The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.

⁷At the death of a just man his hope does not perish: but the boast of the ungodly perishes.

⁸A righteous man escapes from a snare, and the ungodly man is delivered up in his place.

⁹In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: but the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.

¹⁰In the prosperity of righteous men a city prospers: but by the mouth of ungodly men it is overthrown.

¹¹At the blessing of the upright a city shall be exalted.