Proverbs 25:14-28

¹⁴As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.

¹⁵A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

¹⁶If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

¹⁷Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

¹⁸One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.

¹⁹Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

²⁰Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.

²¹If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

²²For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.

²³As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

²⁴It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

²⁵As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.

²⁶Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

²⁷It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

²⁸He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.