Proverbs 12

¹Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof [is] brutish.

²The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

³A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.

⁴A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones [is] one causing shame.

⁵The thoughts of the righteous [are] justice, The counsels of the wicked — deceit.

⁶The words of the wicked [are]: 'Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

⁷Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.

⁸According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.

⁹Better [is] the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.

¹⁰The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.

¹¹Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

¹²The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.

¹³In transgression of the lips [is] the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.

¹⁴From the fruit of the mouth [is] one satisfied [with] good, And the deed of man's hands returneth to him.