Proverbs 28:16-23

¹⁶A king in need of revenues is a great oppressor: but he that hates injustice shall live a long time.

¹⁷He that becomes surety for a man charged with murder shall be an exile, and not in safety. Chasten your son, and he shall love you, and give honour to your soul: he shall not obey a sinful nation.

¹⁸He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled therein.

¹⁹He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.

²⁰A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: but the wicked shall not be unpunished.

²¹He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread.

²²An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

²³He that reproves a man's ways shall have more favour than he that flatters with the tongue.