Proverbs 24:14-24

¹⁴Similarly, being wise is good for your soul; if you become wise, you will be happy in the future, and God will certainly do for you what you are confidently expecting him to do LIT.

¹⁵Do not be like wicked people who hide and wait to break into the houses of righteous/good people and rob/steal things.

¹⁶Even if good people fall down seven/many times, they always stand/get up again, but when a disaster happens to wicked people, it ruins/destroys them.

¹⁷Do not be happy when something bad happens to one of your enemies; do not rejoice when he stumbles and falls,

¹⁸because Yahweh will know what you are thinking, and he will not like it, and as a result he will not punish that enemy of yours.

¹⁹Do not become angry/upset about those who do what is evil, and do not SYN envy them,

²⁰because nothing good will happen to wicked people; they are like a lamp that will soon be extinguished MET.

²¹My child/son, revere Yahweh and also honor the king, and do not associate with people who want to rebel against either of them,

²²because those people will suddenly experience disasters; and no one knows RHQ what great disasters that God or the king can cause to happen to them.

²³Here are more things that wise people have said: It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly IDM.

²⁴If they say to people who are guilty, “You ◄are innocent/have not done something that is wrong►,” even people in other nations will curse and despise them,