1
A wise child loves discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
2
From the fruit of their words good persons eat good things, but the desire of the treacherous is for wrongdoing.
3
Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin.
4
The appetite of the lazy craves, and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.
5
The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked act shamefully and disgracefully.
6
Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
7
Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
8
Wealth is a ransom for a person's life, but the poor get no threats.
9
The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.
10
By insolence the heedless make strife, but wisdom is with those who take advice.
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Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but those who gather little by little will increase it.