Proverbs 16:25-32

²⁵There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

²⁶A man who labours, labours for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.

²⁷But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.

²⁸A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.

²⁹A transgressor tries to ensnare friends, and leads them in ways that are not good.

³⁰And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evils: he is a furnace of wickedness.

³¹Old age is a crown of honour, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

³²A man slow to anger is better than a strong man; and he that governs his temper better than he that takes a city.