Proverbs 24:2-28

²because they are constantly thinking about acting violently, and whenever they speak MTY, they talk about ◄causing trouble/hurting someone►.

³People make good houses (OR, families) by doing what is wise, and they make their houses (OR, families) strong by heeding good advice.

⁴By using good sense, they are able to buy valuable and beautiful things and put them in the rooms of their houses.

⁵Being wise is better than being strong/powerful; those who know many things can accomplish more than those who are very strong.

⁶Leaders can fight battles if they have wise advisors, and they win those battles if they have many good advisors.

⁷Foolish people cannot understand wise sayings/talk; at public meetings they are not able to say anything that is useful.

⁸Those who are always planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.

⁹It is sinful to plan to do foolish things, and people hate those who make fun of everything that is good.

¹⁰If you act as though you are helpless when you have troubles, you are truly very weak.

¹¹If it is unjustly decided that someone must be executed, try hard to rescue them DOU.

¹²If you say, “I did not know anything about it, so ◄it is not my concern/I did not try to help him►,” remember that God knows what we have done, and he knows what we were thinking IDM, RHQ, and he will certainly RHQ repay us as we deserve for what we have done or for not doing what we should have done.

¹³My child/son, eat honey, because it is good for you; the honey that drips from honeycombs tastes very sweet.

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,

²⁵but if judges say that guilty people must be punished, things will go well for those judges, and ◄they will receive blessings/God will bless them►.

²⁶Those who answer others honestly show that they are truly their friends IDM.

²⁷First, do the work that needs to be done outside your house, and prepare your fields, and then plant things, and after you finish doing that, build your house.

²⁸In the courtroom do not testify against someone when you have no reason to do that, and do not try to deceive people by what you say MTY.