Proverbs 16:24-33

²⁴Like the droppings of honey are pleasant sayings, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.

²⁵There is many a way which seemeth even before a man, but its end are the ways unto death.

²⁶The desire of the laborer laboreth for him; for his mouth imposeth it on him.

²⁷An ungodly man diggeth up mischief, and on his lips there is as it were a scathing fire.

²⁸A perverse man scattereth strife; and a whisperer separateth confident friends.

²⁹The man of violence misleadeth his neighbor, and maketh him go on a way which is not good.

³⁰He shutteth his eyes to devise perverse things: when he compresseth his lips then hath he fully resolved on evil.

³¹An ornamental crown is the hoary head, on the way of righteousness can it be found.

³²One that is slow to anger is better than a hero; and he that ruleth his spirit, than the conqueror of a city.

³³In the lap the lot is cast: but from the Lord cometh the whole of its decision.