Proverbs 21:11-17

¹¹When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.

¹²The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

¹³He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

¹⁴By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

¹⁵It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

¹⁶The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

¹⁷The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.