Proverbs 13:1–25

¹A son is wise where there is a father’s discipline, but the ridiculer is one that has not heard rebuke.

²From the fruitage of his mouth a man will eat good, but the very soul of those dealing treacherously is violence.

³The one guarding his mouth is keeping his soul. The one opening wide his lips—he will have ruin.

⁴The lazy one is showing himself desirous, but his soul [has] nothing. However, the very soul of the diligent ones will be made fat.

⁵A false word is what the righteous hates, but the wicked ones act shamefully and cause disgrace for themselves.

⁶Righteousness itself safeguards the one who is harmless in his way, but wickedness is what subverts the sinner.

⁷There exists the one that is pretending to be rich and yet he has nothing at all; there is the one that is pretending to be of little means and yet [he has] many valuable things.

⁸The ransom for a man’s soul is his riches, but the one of little means has not heard rebuke.

⁹The very light of the righteous ones will rejoice; but the lamp of the wicked ones—it will be extinguished.

¹⁰By presumptuousness one only causes a struggle, but with those consulting together there is wisdom.

¹¹Valuable things resulting from vanity become fewer, but the one collecting by the hand is the one that makes increase.

¹²Expectation postponed is making the heart sick, but the thing desired is a tree of life when it does come.

¹³He that has despised the word, from him a [debtor’s] pledge will be seized; but the one fearing the commandment is the one that will be rewarded.

¹⁴The law of the wise one is a source of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.

¹⁵Good insight itself gives favor, but the way of those dealing treacherously is rugged.

¹⁶Everyone shrewd will act with knowledge, but the one that is stupid will spread abroad foolishness.

¹⁷A messenger that is wicked will fall into bad, but a faithful envoy is a healing.

¹⁸The one neglecting discipline [comes to] poverty and dishonor, but the one keeping a reproof is the one that is glorified.

¹⁹Desire when realized is pleasurable to the soul; but it is something detestable to the stupid ones to turn away from bad.

²⁰He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.

²¹Sinners are the ones whom calamity pursues, but the righteous are the ones whom good rewards.

²²One who is good will leave an inheritance to sons of sons, and the wealth of the sinner is something treasured up for the righteous one.

²³Plowed ground of persons of little means [yields] a great deal of food, but there exists the one that is swept away for lack of judgment.

²⁴The one holding back his rod is hating his son, but the one loving him is he that does look for him with discipline.

²⁵The righteous is eating to the satisfaction of his soul, but the belly of the wicked ones will be empty.