Proverbs

¹BETTER IS a dry morsel with quietness than a house full of feasting [on offered sacrifices] with strife. ²A wise servant shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall share in the inheritance among the brothers. ³The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tries the hearts. [Ps. 26:2; Prov. 27:21; Jer. 17:10; Mal. 3:3.] ⁴An evildoer gives heed to wicked lips; and a liar listens to a mischievous tongue. ⁵Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent or go unpunished. [Job 31:29; Prov. 14:31; Obad. 12.]