Proverbs 11

¹A deceitful balance, is abomination before God: and an equal weight is his will.

²Where pride shall be, there shall be contumely also: but where humility, there also wisdom.

³The simplicity of the just shall direct them: and the supplanting of the perverse shall waste them.

⁴Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

⁵The justice of the simple shall direct his way: and the impious shall fall in his impiety.

⁶The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their deceitful practices.

⁷The impious man being dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the careful shall perish.

⁸The just is delivered from distress: and the impious shall be given for him.

⁹The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.

¹⁰In the good things of the just the city shall rejoice; and in the destruction of the impious there shall be praise.

¹¹With the benediction of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the impious it shall be subverted.

¹²He that despiseth his friend, lacketh heart: but the wise man will hold his peace.

¹³He that walketh fraudulently, revealeth secrets: but he that is faithful, concealeth the thing committed of his friend.

¹⁴Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is health where is much counsel.

¹⁵He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is ware of the snares, shall be secure.

¹⁶A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.

¹⁷A merciful man doth good to his kindred also. Benefacit animæ suæ vir misericors; qui autem crudelis est, etiam propinquos abjicit.

¹⁸The impious maketh an unstable work: but to him that soweth justice, is a faithful reward.

¹⁹Clemency prepareth life: & the pursuing of evil things death.

²⁰A perverse heart is abominable to our Lord: and his will is in them that walk simply.

²¹Hand in hand the evil man shall not be innocent: but the seed of the just shall be saved.

²²A ring of gold in a swine's snout, a fair woman & a fool.

²³The desire of the just is all good: the expectation of the impious fury.

²⁴Some divide their own goods, and are made richer: others take violently not their own, and are always in poverty.

²⁵The soul which blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth himself shall also be inebriated.

²⁶He that hideth corn, shall be cursed among the peoples: but blessing upon the head of them that sell.

²⁷Well riseth he early who seeketh good things: but he that is a searcher after evil things, shall be oppressed of them.

²⁸He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall spring as a green leaf.

²⁹He that troubleth his house, shall possess the winds: and he that is a fool shall serve the wise.

³⁰The fruit of the just man a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls, is wise.

³¹If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the impious and sinner?