Proverbs [Sayings] 15:23-26

²³Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

²⁴The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol ·Place of the dead·.

²⁵Adonai will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

²⁶Adonai detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.