Proverbs 14:1-35
14 * Women’s wisdom builds its house,but foolishness is demolishing it with her own hands.
2 He who fears Jehovah goes straightforwardly,but he who despises him takes dodging courses.
3 * In a know-nothing’s mouth there is a switch for his own back, but wise men’s lips guard them safe.
4 With no cattle there is a clean manger,but there is plenty of produce by a horned beast’s strength.
5 A trustworthy witness will not lie,but a false witness breathes lies.
6 A cynic hunts for wisdom and does not find any,but knowledge is an easy thing to a man of sense.
7 * Go face to face with a foolish man,and you have not known lips of knowledge.
8 A shrewd man’s wisdom consists in understanding his course;but the stupidity of fools, in cheating.
9 ** Reprobates’ homes are held guilty,but upright men’s houses are accepted.
10 A heart knows its own grief,and a stranger does not mix in its gladness.
11 Wrong-doers’ house will be rooted out,but upright men’s home will bloom.
12 * There is such a thing as a road that lies smooth before a man but the last part of it is the recesses of death.
13 Even in laughter a heart will feel pain,and the sequel of gladness is sorrow.
14 * A man of recreant heart will have his fill out of his courses, and a good man out of his practices.
15 A simpleton believes every word,but a shrewd man considers his steps.
16 A wise man is afraid and gets out of the way of harm,but a fool is hotheaded and confident.
17 A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,but a practical man bears.
18 * Simpletons come in for an estate of ignorance,but shrewd men crown themselves with knowledge.
19 Bad men are brought low before good menand wrong-doers are at a right-doer’s gates.
20 A poor man is hateful even to his friend;but there are many to love a rich man.
21 * One who despises his neighbor is sinning,but happy is he who shows favor to poverty-stricken men.
22 * Practitioners of evil are on the wrong track indeed,but practitioners of good work in friendship and loyalty.
23 By any hard work there will be a clear profit;but lip-talk comes only to a deficit.
24 * Wise men’s crown is shrewdness,but fools’ garland is foolishness.
25 * A true witness is a lifesaver,but a lie-blower is a disappointment.
26 * In the fear of Jehovah is a strong reliance,and to one’s children that will be a refuge.
27 The fear of Jehovah is a spring of lifefor keeping away from the snares of death.
28 In the numerousness of a people is a king’s majesty,but in lack of folk is a potentate’s ruin.
29 ** A patient man shows great intelligence,but an impatient man conspicuous foolishness.
30 * A placid heart is life in the flesh,but passion is a rot in the bones.
31 One who denies a poor man his rights is insulting him who made him;but he who is honoring him shows favor to a needy one.
32 A rogue is knocked over by his viciousness,but an honest man finds refuge in his conscientious life.
33 * In a sensible man’s heart wisdom rests,but in fools’ bosoms it is known.
34 * Right-doing uplifts a nation,but sin is a disgrace to any folk.
35 A capable official will have a king’s approval,but a worthless one will be his rage.
Footnotes
^ 14:1 Codd.* The wisest women build her house
^ 14:3 Codd. a switch for pride or a sprout of pride
^ 14:7 Susp.
^ 14:9 (reprobates) Unc.
^ 14:9 Var. Guilt mocks ignoramuses but between upright men there is goodwill
^ 14:12 Var. is roads to death
^ 14:14 Codd. and a good man off from him.
^ 14:18 (last part) Unc., susp.
^ 14:21 Var. despises poor men
^ 14:22 Lit. Are not practitioners of evil on the wrong track? but practitioners of good are friendship and loyalty
^ 14:24 Codd. fools’ foolishness is foolishness
^ 14:25 Codd.* a lie-blower is fraud
^ 14:26 Lit. his children
^ 14:29 Lit. is abundant in intelligence
^ 14:29 Lit. is lifting foolishness aloft
^ 14:30 Or but jealousy is
^ 14:33 (it) Conj. some such word as foolishness or self-conceit
^ 14:34 Var. sin is the depletion of
