Proverbs 21:1-10

¹As a rush of water, so is the king's heart in God's hand: he turns it wherever he may desire to point out.

²Every man seems to himself righteous; but the Lord directs the hearts.

³To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.

⁴A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.

⁶He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on to the snares of death.

⁷Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.

⁸To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.

⁹It is better to dwell in a corner on the house-top, than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness, and in an open house.

¹⁰The soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man.