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21 Yahweh directs what kings think as a farmer directs streams of water
to make them go wherever he wants them to go.
2 People always think that what they do is right,
but Yahweh rightly evaluates why they do those things.
3 Doing what is right and fair is more acceptable to Yahweh
than sacrificing animals to him.
4 Being proud and arrogant guide what wicked people do like a lamp shows people where to go;
they are sinful.
5 What diligent people plan will certainly profit them,
but all those who act too hastily will certainly become poor.
6 When people gain wealth by speaking falsely,
that wealth quickly vanishes like mist, and doing that will kill them.
7 When wicked people act violently, they cause others to punish them for it
because they refuse to do what is right.
8 Guilty people continually do what is wrong,
but innocent people do what is right.
9 It is better to live alone in a corner of a housetop
than to live inside a house with a wife who always argues with you.
10 Wicked people strongly desire to do what is evil,
they will not be merciful to the people around them.
11 If you punish people who ridicule others, then naive people who see you do that will become wise,
and if you teach wise people, they will become even more knowledgeable.
12 Righteous people are able to understand what the households of wicked people do;
they let the evil things that wicked people do happen to them.
13 People who refuse to listen to poor people when they cry out for help
will also cry out for help themselves, but no one will help them.
14 Secretly giving something to an angry person will stop him from being angry.
Indeed, secretly bribing a furious person will calm him down.
15 Righteous people are glad when people judge justly,
but judging justly terrifies people who act sinfully.
16 People who stop behaving sensibly
will soon go to the place where the spirits of dead people are.
17 People who love what is pleasurable will be poor.
Indeed, people who indulge themselves in wine and rich food will never be wealthy.
18 Wicked people will suffer instead of righteous people,
and treacherous people will suffer in place of upright people.
19 It is better to live alone in a desolate land
than to live with an argumentative and nagging wife.
20 Wise people store up precious riches and olive oil,
but foolish people waste everything that they have.
21 People who diligently try to be righteous and faithful
will live well, will be righteous, and people will respect them.
22 Wise people know how to conquer cities that mighty warriors are defending;
they can pull down the walls that people in those cities believe will protect them.
23 People who are careful about what they say
avoid becoming distressed.
24 People who ridicule others are proud and arrogant;
they behave furiously and presumptuously.
25 Lazy people want food, but they will die
because they refuse to work.
26 Lazy people always want more things for themselves,
but righteous people generously give what they have to others.
27 Yahweh detests the sacrifices that wicked people offer to him;
it is even more detestable when they are offering something to Yahweh while intending to act wickedly!
28 Witnesses who lie will die,
but when someone who listens carefully speaks, what he says will finish the matter.
29 Wicked people pretend to know what they are doing,
but upright people think about what they do.
30 Even the wisest and most knowledgeable counselor is nothing compared to Yahweh.
31 Soldiers prepare to fight,
but Yahweh determines who wins that fight.
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