Proverbs

³It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel. ⁴The sluggard does not plow when winter sets in; therefore he begs in harvest and has nothing. ⁵Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out. [Prov. 18:4.] ⁶Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find? ⁷The righteous man walks in his integrity; blessed (happy, fortunate, enviable) are his children after him. ⁸A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows out all evil [like chaff] with his eyes. ⁹Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.]