Proverbs 16:26-33

²⁶A man who labors, labors 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 honor, 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.

³³All evils come upon the ungodly into their bosoms; But all righteous things come of the Lord.