Proverbs 15:17-24

¹⁷It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

¹⁸A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.

¹⁹The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns; the way of the just is without offence.

²⁰A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.

²¹Folly is joy to the fool: and the wise man maketh straight his steps.

²²Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

²³A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.

²⁴The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.