Proverbs 17:15-23

¹⁵He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.

¹⁶Why has the fool wealth? for a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom. He that exalts his own house seeks ruin; and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischief.

¹⁷Have you a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.

¹⁸A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, as he also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.

¹⁹A lover of sin rejoices in strifes;

²⁰and the hard-hearted man comes not in for good. A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;

²¹and the heart of a fool is grief to its possessor. A father rejoices not over an uninstructed son; but a wise son gladdens his mother.

²²A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.

²³The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in his bosom do not prosper; and an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness.