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16 People plan what they want to say,
but Yahweh determines how they will reply.
2 People think that everything they do is right,
but Yahweh rightly evaluates what they think.
3 Entrust what you do to Yahweh,
and he will make what you plan to do succeed.
4 When Yahweh made everything, he planned what would happen to each thing.
He has even made wicked people for the time when he will punish them.
5 Yahweh detests all proud people.
Yahweh will certainly punish them.
6 People can atone for acting sinfully by being faithful and trustworthy.
People who reverently fear Yahweh will avoid doing what is evil.
7 When Yahweh likes what people do,
he even causes their enemies to be peaceful with them.
8 It is better for someone to have a few things while being righteous,
than for someone to have a lot of crops while being unjust.
9 People plan what they want to do,
but Yahweh determines what they will actually do.
10 Ideally, what kings say is from God,
and when kings judge, they surely speak justly.
11 Yahweh made weighing instruments for us to use honestly.
Indeed, he made all the stones people carry in bags to use for weighing things.
12 Ideally, kings detest people acting wickedly
because acting righteously causes kings to rule securely.
13 Ideally, kings enjoy when people speak righteously.
Indeed, they love people who speak uprightly.
14 When kings are angry, they cause people to die;
so wise people will appease them.
15 When kings are happy, they let people live;
when they approve of people, it is as refreshing as rain in springtime.
16 Becoming wise is better than having gold.
Indeed, it is better to choose to become understanding than to have silver.
17 Upright people act in a way that avoids doing what is evil;
people who want to stay alive are careful about what they do.
18 If people are proud, then something will destroy them.
Indeed, if people are arrogant, then something will ruin them.
19 It is better to live humbly among poor people
than to live proudly and receive some of what proud people have taken from others.
20 People who act prudently in a matter will succeed,
and people who trust in Yahweh are happy.
21 People will call those who think wisely, “understanding ones,”
and pleasant things that people say cause others to learn.
22 Being insightful is like a spring that enables insightful people to live for a long time,
but being foolish results in other people punishing foolish people.
23 What wise people think causes them to speak insightfully,
and what those people say causes others to learn.
24 The pleasing things that people say are like a honeycomb:
they cause people to feel pleasant and healthy.
25 People think they know the right way to behave,
but people who behave that way will ultimately die.
26 Being hungry helps working people work
because wanting to eat motivates people to keep on working.
27 Worthless people plot how to hurt others;
the evil things they say harm others like fire burns people.
28 Perverse people cause other people to argue with each other;
and people who gossip about others cause friends to stop being friends.
29 Violent people tempt people whom they know to sin,
and they guide them to behave wickedly.
30 People who use their eyes to signal to others are planning to do something perverse;
people who use their lips to signal to others are about to do the evil thing that they had planned to do.
31 Living for a long time is honorable, like a magnificent crown on someone’s head;
people are able to live for a long time by living righteously.
32 It is better to be someone who does not become angry quickly than to be powerful.
It is better to control oneself than to be as powerful as someone who conquers a city.
33 People throw lots in order to decide what to do,
but Yahweh decides whatever happens.
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