Proverbs

¹⁷Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it. [Prov. 17:1.] ¹⁸A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger appeases contention. ¹⁹The way of the sluggard is overgrown with thorns [it pricks, lacerates, and entangles him], but the way of the righteous is plain and raised like a highway. ²⁰A wise son makes a glad father, but a self-confident and foolish man despises his mother and puts her to shame. ²¹Folly is pleasure to him who is without heart and sense, but a man of understanding walks uprightly [making straight his course]. [Eph. 5:15.] ²²Where there is no counsel, purposes are frustrated, but with many counselors they are accomplished. ²³A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment–how good it is!