PROVERBS 13:1-9

¹A WISE son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

²A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the treacherous shall eat violence.

³He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

⁴The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

⁵A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

⁶Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

⁷There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

⁸The ransom of a man’s life is his riches: but the poor heareth no threatening.

⁹The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.