Proverbs 19:5-14

⁵A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall not escape.

⁶Many court the favour of a noble; and every one is friend to a man that giveth.

⁷All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, — they are not to be found.

⁸He that getteth sense loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

⁹A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.

¹⁰Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

¹¹The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

¹²The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

¹³A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

¹⁴House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.