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UST PRO Chapter 18

PRO 18 ©

18People who avoid other people only care about doing what they want to do.

They refuse to do anything that is wise.

2Stupid people hate learning what they should understand.

Instead, they only like to tell others what they think.

3People treat wicked people contemptuously,

and people scold people who act shamefully.

4What wise people say is as profound as a deep ocean.

Wise people are like a fountain or brook that flows abundantly with what is wise.

5It is very evil for judges to favor guilty people

in order to prevent judging innocent people justly.

6What stupid people say makes people argue,

and it makes people want to beat them.

7What stupid people say will ruin them.

Indeed, what they say will trouble them like a trap troubles an animal.

8People are eager to listen to what people who gossip say,

and what they say deeply affects those who hear it.

9People who are lazy when they work

are like people who destroy things.

10Yahweh is like a strong tower

that righteous people run into and are safe.

11What rich people own keeps them safe like walls keep cities safe;

they think what they own protects them as well as a high wall.

12If people think proudly, then something will destroy them;

people must be humble before other people respect them.

13It is foolish and shameful

for someone to reply to what a person has said before hearing it.

14How people feel can enable them to endure being sick.

However, it is very difficult to make a depressed person feel better!

15Understanding people learn what they should know.

Indeed, wise people try to learn what they should know.

16Giving something to someone can benefit the one who gives it;

doing so can enable that person to meet important people.

17People who state their cases first seem to be right

until people whom they know arrive and question them.

18Throwing lots in order to decide something can make people stop arguing,

it can also decide who is right between powerful people.

19It is more difficult to reconcile with a relative whom you have offended than to conquer a fortified city;

and when people argue, they avoid each other as if a castle’s strong gate were between them.

20What people say will satisfy them when they are hungry.

Indeed, what people say will satisfy them.

21What people say can cause people to die or remain alive.

And people who love to talk will experience the consequences for what they say.

22Men who marry get what is good

and Yahweh approves of them.

23Poor people plead for others to be merciful to them, but rich people reply to them rudely.

24Having unreliable friends will destroy a person,

but loving friends exist who are more loyal than brothers.

PRO 18 ©

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